Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-06-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

MANY Of the elephants of Abyssinia
are without tuslSs
MORE than 1000 600 cats skins are
used every year in the fur trade
FEW natives of India eat more than
twice day, ard thousands only once.
Two LEADING Cuban railways are
owned and conducted by British en-
terprise.
The attendance at public schools in
Italy in 1870 was POI, 632, while now II
is AL, Cos.
OF the 10000 citizens Of the United
States now in Germany 1000 are
matriclated students.
The organs of smell in vulture are
so keen that they can scent their food
for distance OF 40 miles.
FORTY per cent. of the export OF
American nails is taken by Japan.
Japan is our largest buyer.
N - years Russia has sent G24. 600
persons TO Siberia, fully 100 600 rela-
uves of prisoners having accompanied
the eNiles of their own free will.
EVERY language contains such names
rs cuckoo, pewit, whippoorwiu and
others IN which the sound emitted by
the animal is initiated as the name.
The United Kingdom. with all her
colonies and possessions. takes ssss
ASS worth of American glassware YEAR
", or nearly three-fourths OF the entire
exports.
IHE Italian government has imposed
n tax of ten lire on bicycles. and in fu-
ture all machines will have TO carry a
mark showing that the yearly tax has
been paid.
HE largest history ever published
is The War OF the Rebellion. " issued
by Uncle Sam in 100 huge octave vol
umns, OF 1000 pages each, with a
gigantic atlas in 80 pages.
The ground in the vicinity of the
Bank OF England is estimated 10 be
worth not less than $40. 900. 600 per
acre and land in Pail Mall has changed
hands at So 500. 600 an acre.
The steamer Algon, on its last trip
from San Francisco 10 Marseilles. car
ried wheat that would have filed so
freight trains with 200 cars. The
import duty was ZOO 900 francs.
GREATER excommunication. an un-
usual punishment in the Church of
England. has been pronounced by the
bishop OF Litchfield against a clergy
man convicted of grossly immoral con-
duct
a TANK steamer with a capacity of
100000 gallons will soon be launched
from the Roach shipyard in Chester.
Ia 1t . for the Standard Oil Co..
and is said To be the largest in the
world.
II is reported that the Chinese gov
eminent has made a concession of its
coal fields to a syndicate of English
capitalists: the fields are said 10 con-
tain ineXhaustible quantities OF an
thracite coal.
PROBABLY the smallest painting in
the world is that by a Flemish artist on
the smooth side Of a grain OF common
white corn, and picturing mill and a
miller mounting a stair with d sack of
grain on his back
THE largest shipment OF live Holsters
ever sent from Halifax y. ;. went for.
ward by the last steamer 20 Boston.
The shipment amounted TO 800 crates.
weighing 81 tons, every fish being at
least 1Ojf inches long.
RI ADM. GHEBARDI. retired. iu q
speech at New York says that the re.
suits OF this war will show that the
standard OF officers aud men in the
navy mas kept pace with the improve
ments IN armaments and machinery.
WOODEN shoes in France are urodt1c.
ed 20 the extent OF about I. 600. 600 pairs
yearly. They are made in Alsace and
Barriers Toy machinery and Lozerc bv
hand in the last named province
100 persons are engaged % the man.
ufacture
a CALfFoENIAS. by q special process,
has succeeded in solidifyiny petroleum
into black. solid mass. which burns
Ike coal with less smoke. and throws
out thrice the heat IL can bc cast I'm
bricks, is clean and gives out little De-
troiaum odot
IIE NvantIaus. who live iu the mac.
cessio le mountain range between tine
Black and Caspian seas. ar. probably
the LATEST people Iu the world. They
have made no advance toward cfviIfl4-
ton In $500 years 10 is thefr inva-i.
aole rule 90 observe holidays four
times week. ~it. saints days a. rv.
fraa
ROBERT J. JANIS. son OF Frank jaime.
and nephew NJ Jesse Jaues Of Ni.
souri,. has enlisted In t.e 1ud United
states cavalry and na. gone 90 Caiexa-
mauGa. DC is just vi age and -fuca
graduating from col eye has been em.
ploFed iu fne auditor. department OF
railway running out of ST. Louis
hhp now they are going FOO have a
trolley road iu PeEl. THE Chinese
government bias granted % conc. ION
~ Derman syndicate and tle con.
tract has aI-.H... U..r ... t. - ..........