Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-04-07
CURRENT TOPICS.


QUEEN NICToRIA's Kitchen" wages
are about $50, 600 year.
WEIssENFELs, in Germany. dresses
100000 sqairrel skins annually
COMMERCIAL travellers from foreign
countries pay tax OF S2G. so per month
in Norway and Sweden.
The chaperone of an Iowa skating
party ran away and married the wild.
est young man in the crowd.
A LACoN (lll.) company proposes to
raise 100, 600 cats for their fur. Cats
are great for returns, it is said
LEEDS ENG compositors have Sc.
cured a 81 hour week and only six
apprentices will be allowed in each Of
fee
Mrs. Macy \. LIVERMoRE remem beers
when Boston common was COW pas
ture, and She says it didn't look as bad
then as il does now.
PHILADELPHA preacher has reach
ed the conclusion that prosperity will
not return to the country until there is
an end to prize fights
A SMALL potentate in Afghanistan
recently offered British collector
42, for complete set of postage
stamps of Afghanistan.
SCHOOL teachers of North Carolina
mnst read aloud to their pupils the
constitution OF the United states and
that of the state twice year
LOUIS DARWIN and wife, OF St Paul,
Mimi, respectively aged 1O7 and 1Ol
years, recently celebrated the eightieth
anniversary of their marriage
In the Middle Ages cats were al
ways kept in nunneries, and from this
the traditional association of cats and
old maids is said to have arisen
EAGLES do not have different mates
every season, as do birds generally;
they pair for life, and some times oc.
cuPy the same nest for many years.
MAN will die for want of air in five
minutes, for want of sleep in ten days
for want of water in n week and for
want of food at varying periods, de
pendent on circumstances.
QUEER Japanese idea is that OF the
officers who served in the war with
China, in petitioning the government
to erect a monument to the memory OF
the horses that fell in the war
AN English provincial paper recent
ly printed a sketch of Chauncey
DEpew. of New York, and laid espe
= cial emphasis on the fact that his Gal
lie wit was in keeping with his Gallo
name
1t is said that the servants in the
Rio Grande do Sui, Brazil, refuse tc
cook dinner later than ( o'clock, anC
insist on going home before dark. Sc
that not house has a servant in i
after the hour of $.
THE old Washington hall, in Dur
ham, which is supposed by some I,
have been the seat of George Wash
ington's ancestors has been bought by
an American for only s., 600. II is pic
turesque and full of rheumatism
lola, busy as he is supposed 10 be
works only three hours a day. and tn,
first hour hardly counts 1t is usual,
between 10 and / in the day that h,
writes He is grown stout: he look
tired and his voice is weak and pitche,
Ugh.
FoR the first time in II years all tn,
judges of England are about TO NEE
in the house of lords TO decide VIVA
constitutes intimidation in labor cases
the law lords OF the house having di
vided equally in recent case sent M
TO them.
THE greatest of all luxuries in Cen
trail Africa is salt The loug-c9ntiu.
ued use OF vegetable food in that coun
try creates so painful a longing fo
salt hat natives deprived OF it, for
long period often show symptoms o
insanity.
A LONDON thief has been doing
thriving business by providing himscI
with a hook attached 20 line. b,
means OF which he managed from th,
~ L. .
= their inmates. which he sold az grea
profit on his investment
Is THE house OF commons Rich
Hon. Sir William George NcuabIc
Vernon Harcourt. " r. the llbera
leader, has been fined ten shilling
and costs iu a London police court fo
allowing his chimney 90 catch fir,
through not having been cleaned.
THERE is "a man in England who's
water supply costs him $3.50 day. DO,
is a millionaire. who lives near yil
lage. Not liking the oca water. D..
had a -pec'aI conduit tIlt for nimscl
az cost of $500. OOD though hc reside
there only three months u year
IHE average daily supply Df waite
t0 London delivered from t.. Iram.
one month last autumn ra. r...- g..
gallons from tHr Dee ft-I-a.1 yaI
Ions, from spring. and wells
20 9a.lons. from pond, a. lIaup,t,a
and H.ghyate IHJ a.. -aIIuu-
-. Fhwif is WORKING .. ~av uort
from y .-ia headed ~. indiana. tina
is attf aching considerable attention
They T. travelling In b. a.s .a with
'spikd leaH o.. fa-. oxen hu a.
man sits .n '.. .-.rf.f f.eaay9u 600.
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