Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1898-07-27
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Ahh NSFN uuS>t pranO OF Havana
cigars fetehes $500 thousand in
Paris
TAXING all the year round. the cold.
est hour of the - is at o'clock in the
morning.
GLADSTONE had the honor o: being
the only man who was four times
prime minister of England
y Missouri man filed as an answer
TO his wife's Suit for divorce an agree
ment signed by both Ito disband."
The sound % bell which can be
heard $1,000 feet across the water can
be heard through the air only 456
feet.
WASHING is done in japan by getting
into boat and letting the garments
10 be washed drag after the boat by
long string.
The empire of the Spaniards found
ed IN America just after the discovery
comprised about 1000, 600 square
miles OF territory.
CONGRESS- has made n oommendable
precedent in mentioning the names of
privates as well as officers in thanking
our boys for brave services
IT is said that the finest specimen OF
opal in the world has recently been
found on Mt Powell. in the United
States. 1t weighs nine ounces.
THE unfortunate BourCogne had
aboard $4,000 worth of agricultural
implements exported from this coun-
try. and intended TO go to France
FLOWERS cut in the morning will re-
tain their freshness twice as long as
those cut in the middle of the dav
when the sun Is shining upon them
JAPAN is corruption of the Chinese
word Shipen-Kue. which means root
of day" or sunrise kingdom be-
cause Japan is directly east of China
WHATEVER other foreign nations NAV
now think of our navy, there is no
question that Spain believes our war
ships have altogether too many guns.
PoPE LEo Nil walking the gardens
OF the vatican will soon be a living
picture attraction, as his photograph
has just been taken for the cinemato-
graph
The Paris Figaro declares that the
Americans are merely apprentices in
the art of war What then NAV they
be expected to do when they learn
their trade?
QUEEN Wu.HELMNE, of the Neither
lands, has dismissed her last teacher.
and will take a vacation before enter
ing on the business of reigning at the
end of August
DUsrIEss roads are to be made pos
sible by new material, composed OF a
fine earthly or mineral matter charged
with nil, placed on the leveled bed of
ordinary roads.
THE best houses in the city of Ma
Mia are of stone and are handsome
residences Glass is not used for the
windows, which are glazed with trans
lucent oyster shells
IL fasting feats the sect of Jains in
India, is far ahead OF all rivals. Fasts
Of from 80 TO 40 days are very common
and once year they are said 10 alb
stain from food for IS DAYS
BAD temper has an injurious phvs-
ical effect on the digestion. as il
tends 10 drive the blood 10 the brain.
thus leaving the stomach unable TO
perform its functions properly.
QUEEN VICTORIA, since her corona
ton. has received almost So GOO 600 n
year from the government The other
members Of the royal family receive
annuities amounting TO SsG5. 600.
EVERY theater in Paris has AT one
time or another been burned down.
except the Comedie Franchise, the
only playhouse which has not adopted
electric lamps for the footHghts.
ONE OF the features OF new hos
pital building in Berlin is 20 Toe
large room in which patients suffering
from lung diseases can breathe air
artihciaily impregnated with salt
IS toe Franco-Prussian war France
lost a. many as 1856. 600 men. OF whom
some $4,000 died OF wounds received in
battle. 50. coo bv sickness. accident.
suicide, etc, and 20. 900 in German
prisons.
NEfL-KNowN scientist furnishes
some Information in regard 10 tine
ages Of trees. He assigns 10 the pine
tlee 500 20 zoo years MS the maximum.
So years TO the silver FIR, and 100 20
the ash.
IHE japanese are proud OF the first
large ocean steamer they have built.
IL was constructed az Nacasalsi is tGl
feet long of 5000 tons and % sneed of
"a miles. il has been named the Hita-
chi-Maru
IT IS common sight at balls in Cuba
10 see q Negro girl dancing with "a
white man. or a white girl with % man
Of tawuy complexion and males and
females smoking as they wnirl iu the
may waltz
SLAMS royal family having brought
bicycles with 10 from buro1e every
noble % siam trying t1 ride
wheel Great imTr.teuauts BOO tine
roads Of the country are looked for .n
con sequence.
lHE sunnovcr is cultivated bro mauv
European countries. in Russia the
seeds are parcnea and eaten like nca-
nut in the United States The oil is
used for illuminating ani often for
culinary purposes
FnrNCu boot aud shoe Journal
states that arrangements have been
MADE 90 open an American exaosit.au
in Ham burg ana that o special feature
viii De display OF American shoes
IHE Persians in 5lC B O. invented
Transparent glass varnish. waich they
laid over llptured rocks 20 proven;
them from weathcring This coating
ha- Iasted 90 our dag. while the rocks
bencath are honevcoubed
AS apron is she rova. standard of
Persia COS. Persian vho was "a
blacksmith oy trade. ra sed revolt
which proved successful and bis Ieath-