Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-08-04
CURRENT TOPICS.

1T is estimated that DIR. NanSen will
make about $50, 900 out of his Arctic
book
DURING the last year no fewer than
10000 school children were taught to
swim by instructors employed by the
London Schools Swimming association.
PADERMo, Sicily, has an average of
167 cloudless days year and 81 par
tial cloud and partial sunshine, which
elsewhere would be classcd as fine
days.
The Red Lion hotel. Ardmorc. Pa,
has been licensed since 1898, and is
about entering into its one hundredth
year of continuous service as a public
house
WHILE tearing down an old house at
Carbonate, Pa, la borcrs found pa pers
valued at from $40, 900 TO Sl2, 900, which
had been mislaid for twenty FIVE or
thirty years.
MEDICINE in the form of honey is the
latest novelty. 1t is produced by keep
ing bees under glass, so that they can
only sip the sweets of flowers which
possess medicinal properties
WALTER kITTRIDGE. who wrote
'Tenting On the Old Camp Ground"
is living at Reeds Ferry, n. II. He
composed this song on the night after
he was drafted into the army.
The Odd Fellows society of Copen-
hagen collected 80. 900 crowns last
winter for building a free hospital in
in Iceland for the lcpers who abound
there. 1t will have room for 60 pa tie ts.
Miss SHIDAU NARUsE is a Japanese
woman studying nursing in "A New
1ork hospital. She has been trained
IN Japanese hospitals, but came TO
this country to study American meth
DDS
EVIDENCE of the compile kitty of the
cathode rays is found bv NJ II. Des-
landres in the fact that when "A raw is
turned aside by neigh boring body il
is divided into severally unequally de-
waited rays.
SENATOR PETrIGREw is not likely to
return TO the senate chant Ter this ses-
sion. The effect of the strain upon his
vocal chords is disappearing, but his
physician prescribes absolute rest He
will sail for Japan August .
IN proportion, a thread OF SPIDERS
silk is decidedly tougher than one of
steel An ordinary thread will bear Il
weight of three grains. This is about
30 per cent stronger than stce!
thread of the same thickness.
PARIS and Marseilles are now con.
nected by telegraph lines entirely un-
der ground. They are placed in iron
pipes and buried four feet beneath the
surface, with manholes 5000 feet
apart. /: cost 5000, 900 to bury the
wires.
PROF DUBARD, OF Dion, contri butes
an article showing that tuberculous
disease occurs in cold blooded animals
fish carp and frogs, and can be com.
municated 70 these animals experi-
mentally.
VICTOR FRANcOSI, the celebrated
circus proprietor, died recently in Pari,
at the age of Sc His grandfather, An
tonic Franconi, established the first
circus in France in l795 The family
will continue in the business. as Victor
Franconi leaves a son.
CHELSEA district, in London. utilities
IT'S street refuse by separating the rags
and paper, which are converted into
brown wrapping paper, while the rest
81 the refuse is burned in the furnaces
of the reduction works and the residu-
um is used in brick making
THERE are no fish in Crater lake. or.
egon. the deepest fresh water lake in
the world. and The government has de-
cided 70 stock it with trout The ma
lives used 20 say that the lake was bot
tomless, but soundings have shown i,,
greatest depth 20 be 1000 feet
Ir IS proposed 10 pave London roads
with compressed grass blocks The
claim is made that the pavement OF