Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-06-16
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factories are forbidden to wear corsets
during working hours.
HE consumption OF soap in India
only reaches the modest amount OF one
ounce per head annually.
n D-IHoUsASD-DoLLAR set of
emeraids will be Queen Victoria's pres
ent from the car and czarina.
SARAH BERNHARDr is said to be so
AFRAID OF fire that she is trying TO have
all her stage gowns made of fire-proof
materials.
THE first colored me IN Der of the Bos-
Ton hire department was appointed re-
Gently. He passed the civil service ex-
animation easily.
IN II days of the maple sugar season
IN New Hampshire, j. L. Hartford. of
East Hebron, made ., 100 pounds OF
sugar. lie tapped 500 trees.
EX-SENATOR DAWES, of Massachus-
etts, although so years of age, is deliv-
ering interesting historical lectures
before the students of Dartmouth col
lege.
SEVEN lions are among the pets of
the sultan OF Morocco. At night he
lets them range the courtyards OF the
palace, to act as guards TO the royal
harem.
ABBAs HIIMY, brother of the khe-
dive of Egypt, is p years of age and
weighs 80 pounds. He is now in Paris
under treatment, il is said, for nerv-
Gus disease.
Ar Nassar college the two new build
ings will be ready for occupancy in
the fall-the Raymond house and the
lecture hall, donated 10y Mr.. John ID.
Rockefeller
THoUGH it cost from % to 80 per cent.
more 10 build a merchant vessel in
France than in England, according to
the Nicomte d'Avencl France still
builds her own ships
RUSSIA has the most rapidly increas-
ing population of any country in the
world The growth during the last
hundred years has been fraction less
than 1000, coo annually.
JOHN d. CRINNuNS, the New York
street railway magnate and Tammanv
political contractor, is worth $40, OOO.-
900, and some day he may be one of
the richest men in the metropolis
CHIEF JUSTICE JUDD, OF Hawaii, who
is now in this country, was graduated
from Yale in 1862, and his two sons
Will be graduated from the same insti-
tuition at the coming commencement.
The man who was largely RESPONSE
BILE for the passage of the act in the
Iowa legislature making the wild rose
the state flower was Ma. :. II. Bvcrs.
the author Of "Sherman's March 10
the Sea.
KANSAS CITY woman, who is going
abroad this sUg mer, will visit the
tomb OF Adam if she can find it, She
wants TO place a flower on the grave
of man who followed the advice OF
his wife.
a GUS which was used by the Kear-
sarge in the noble engagement I'm
which it sank the Alabama OIL Cher
bourg, France in 1868, is .l bc part Of
Il soldiers monument about 70 bc
erected AZ stamford. c.,
BLACK HAWK. the chief the Winnie
bagoes, will visit the Iowa state fair
this summer The chief is now go
year, old and has not been as strong
as usual since he was stricken with
paralysis some time ago.
AN automatic pipe coupling recently
patented is formed OF rrOved section
mounted ON each end of the hose To-
slide over each other until the open
lngs are opposite, when two spring
clamps loci, them in place.
a CALFoENIA fruit and vegetable
company mas adopted method Of dry
ing potatoes by which II j. -g...-,ged
california gr6J5-sy5-stil in bee able 90 come
]" 20 s4"cesstu. competition with crow
eTAFn this side OF the N.s-isHuo.
fAEs and Narsai.les are now con-
nectsd bv telegraph lines entirely ur-
derEround. They are placed lu IRON
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