Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-09-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

ease. Then comes measles.
GEN. Miles wife is John Sher
mans niece The general has power.
ful friends.
OVER 100 persons disappear in Lon.
don every year without leaving the
slightest trace behind.
SPAIN is in position TO take the
head OF the line in the ears universal
disarmament condition.
a FlRsT-CLAss locomotive carries
from three TO Eve tons OF coal and
from > Geo TO 5000 gallons Of water.
NJ ARK TWAIN is now living in cas-
tie near Vienna, which ne has taken
for the summer for himself and family.
CoMMoDoRE ALBEIT KAUrz has been
selected TO command the Pacific squad.
ron upon the retirement of RI Adm
Miller.
The present population of the United
States exceeds that of Germany by
about 22.ooO.OOO, and that of Great
Britain by 100000
EMILE lola is TO come here next
month. lie will deliver lectures on
art, on literature and on The Pris.
oner at DEVILS Island
IL India elephants ever l. and up to
- years OF age are deemed best in
purchase. and will generally work well
until they are so years old.
Oh his arrival in Boston the other
day Richmond Hovey, the poct. was
first Missed rs a Spaniard and then
eheered as returned rough rider.
The cost OF keeping up the drink.
ing foun tains and cattle trourhs in
London is S. 500 per annum. a single
trough in busy thoroughfare costs
$3.50
lr costs 80 cents day TO feed a
soldier, according to war depart.
ment figures, counting tran sportation
of provisions This would be SEQ. o4O a
day.
GEN. SKATER comes home minus "a
pounds, and he admits that ne could
afford to spare it He is still GOOD.
sized man, of considerab Die theft, " rs
they say
a RAFFLE for Bibles takes place
every year in the parish church of st
Ives, in Huntingdonshire, Eng. This
quaint custom has been observed for
200 years.
THE French minister of justice has
appointed six men 10 examine the Sc
cret papers in the Dreyfus case. and
the reopening of the case depends on
their decision
IL Mexico everything and every body
pays direct tax, from the street nor.
ter to the largest mercantile establish.
ment, and the stamp tax for documents
is equally lucrative
SWEDEN is the latest country to Law
claim TO the ancestry of Adm. George
Dewey. Canada insists that the par
ents of Adm. Sampson We're reared bv
the Lady of the SHOWS"
DIR JOHN 5. GRIFFIN, who died in
Los Angeles, Cal. the other dav. was
a veteran Of the Mexican war n uio-
neer physician of California and the
founder Of east Los Angeles.
THERE are supposed TO be nearly So
600 dentists practicing upon peoples
teeth in the world. a dentists case of
instruments nowadays contains be-
tween 500 and 400 instruments.
PBISCE SvIAroPoLK MIEsKY. who re-
Gently died at ST Peters burg. became
major-general at the age OF 20 and
served in all the wars in which Rus
STA has been engaged since the Crimean
war.
tour through South Africa. is de-
lighted with that country. When she
visited the De Beers compound at KIM
berry recently 5000 Zulus danced and
sang for her.
CONSIDERABLE trouble was recently
caused in a Chicago court, when Mr..
+. r Barnes, a prominent lawyer o..
that city. brought suit against a
butcher because his meat caused
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
WHEN the snake sheds his skin.
which occurs irequently-as often as
every four or five weeks-the skin OF
the eye comes of with the rest Trans
lucent in most parts, the skin over the
snakes eye is perfectly transparent.
MARX TWAIN writes that il feels Sc
good 70 be out OF debt that have can.
celed number of lecture engagements
ia Australia / have no respect for
man VINO goes about robbing the pub.
lie on the platform unless ne is in
debt
PRIZE hog. weighing 1924 pounds.
has been raised by T. w. Williams. of
Meigs county. Tenn. Here are its di-
mensions: Height. 4 feet inches: di.
hmeter. feet; length. 10 feet 2 inches.
IL is considered the largest hog ia the
world.
TnE late Adm. Kirldand's opinion Of
newspaper men was summed up while
he was ia San Francisco LOO this way.
IF YOU are caught taking pictures
ans wnerc in the navy yard you'll be
arrested, but / suppose you'll take
them anyhow
III is 81 interest 60 note that while
large part Of the world is engaged in
vars or preparation for wars. the
Central American states OF Nicaragua.
salvador and Honduras are adopting
q constitution Tor She United states of
Central America.
Ur 60 date only 2f6 applications by
soldiers who served in the ate war
with spain haVc been f.ca at tHo pcn.
SION Office Not .c-. trau go Scr cent
Of the number named arc invalid
claims. while tue remaining IS per
cent are thc claim. ~ dependents and
minor.
IHE slaughter of tine lcrv hes ir
She fghtat Omdurman ,ea. sometnina
fearful TIE kluur ~ 10000 men
and vouudiur Of iG 600 in such tat.
te was possible only on account OF
fhc rccs.-.s rushing OF tHc Eur.isl
lines which gave opportunity for