Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-11-23
CURRENT TOPICS.


ton.
THE largest organ in the world is in
the cathedral of Seville Spain. 1t has
IS pipes and 10 stops.
Wild turkeys are destroying corn
fields near the line of Hancock and
Breckenridge counties. Kentucky.
ALABAMA made $40. coo tons OF pig
iron last year. Twenty-Five years ago
the production amounted to 1000
tons.
n FAMOUS musician says that so pcr
cent of the Germans understand music,
Is per cent. OF the French and per
cent of the English.
Ii is stated that large beds of
hquorice root exist in an unimprove6
condition in the Northern Caucasus
region, near the shores of the Black
sea.
JAPANESE economy is one of the
causes of Japanese prosperity. Even
the charcoal dust is saved and nodded
into balls with chat or straw, for
fuel.
THE baya bird of India has the curl
Gus habit of fastening fircfiics to il nest
with moist clay. On dark night such
nest might be taken for an electric
street lamp.
LAKE MoRAT. in Switzerland, has the
curious property of turning red every
ten years, owing to the presence OF GER
tain minerals not found in any other
lake in the world.
For refusing TO keep its streets in
order a village in the district Of
Smeinsk, Siberia, has been depopu-
lated temporarily and l,4O0 OF its in
habitants sent TO Jail.
THE secret police of Paris are quite
distinct from the regular force. The
members are generally unknown to
each other and one detective is often
employed to watch another.
J. r. WATSON, who recently died in
South Carolina, was the body guard of
jefferson Davis at the executive man
sion in Richmond. and was serving
there when Miss Winnie Davis was
born.
ONE cigar manufacturer in Detroit
who employs girls has estimated "A saw
ing in cigar consumption 10y employees
of 100000 in ten years, ON the basis
that male workers use three cigars
daily
Mrs. ANNA MARIA LEE. mother of
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. who died in Rich
mond recently, was the daughter-in-law
of Light Horse Harry" and a sister of
John Mason, who was captured from
the Trent
CHARLOTTE NcNGE, the authoress. is
10 years old. and there is n movement
on foot in England to honor her by the
establishment of memorial scholar
ship for girls in the high school at
Winchester.
NERDIrsCHEw is a good sized Russian
town, which will shortly be sold by
auction to the highest bidder. 1t owes
the government and other creditors
3,91o,Ss2 roubles 63 kopeclls, which it is
unable 70 pay.
The icebergs of the two hcmispheres
are entirely different in shape. The
arctic bergs are irregular in form. with
lofty pinnacles and glittering domes.
while the antarctic bergs are flat-top-
ped and solid-looking.
NIGHT blindness is a curious affection
of the eye in which the patient sees
very well during the day, but becomes
blind as night approaches. 1t is most
~ met with in warm climates. and
usually gives way to mild treatment,
TIN cans are easily opened by a new
machine, consisting Of platform on
which the can is clamped. while a
knife blade mounted on an eccentric
is forced into the top of the can by
lever pivoted at the side OF the
clamp.
SALT can not stick in a new shaker,
the invention of Maine woman. an
agitator being pivoted in the top. with
projection on the outside. which is
grasped by the fingers 20 move a pair
of prongs around the shaker to dislodpe
the salt.
ACCORDING 20 the official returns
there were Isl distilleries AT work in
the United Kingdom last year. OF
these las were in Scotland. 2s in Ire
land and only II in England. The
north Of Scotland had onc-third OF the
total number
SoME Of the wooden churches Of Nor
way are fully 700 years old and are still
in an excellent state OF preservation.
Their timbers have successfully resist
ed the frosty and almost Arctic winters
because they have been repeatedly
coated with tar.
Az Ohio man has patented q reading
stand composed Of "a tclcscoping CEN
trial leg. supported by braces and car
rying a Cat top mounted ON "a pivot
which can be adjusted by means Of "a
screw clamp 90 tilt 30 az convenient
angle for holding book
OYSTERS, after they have been
brought away from the sea. know by
instinct the exact hour when the tide
Is rising and approaching their beds.
and 80. Of their own accord. open thcir
shells 90 receive their food from the
sea. as u they were still at home.
ONE ~ the largest turtles cvcrcauyht
in The waters ~ Long Island sound arr
rived in New York city from New Lon
don. Ct. recently. Capt Frederick
Ostman, a fisherman Of Watch Hill
caught the turtle. which weighs over
200 pounds, in one Of his Ssh traps last
month.
TRAJAv. the Roman Emperor built "a
bridge across the Danube eighteen hum
drcd years ago. Boumaniau engineers
now come and say that The piers OF the
ancient structure are soid enough 90
support new bridge This is 10 be
erected and statue ~ Traian will
ornament the middle of the new struc-
turc
ACcoEpryG % high authority. cold
water y "a valuable stimuIaut t1 MANY
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