The Afro-American advance., 1899-09-02
CURRENT TOPICS.


RRlrisu India now has i4O colleges
i7.oo0 students
AN area of the worlds coal fields 10
Al. 500 square miles.
ZTuKHe are 40. 600 locomotives in use
on Ame lean railroads
Oral mining is one OF the latest Aus
traian mineral industries.
EvEHY blast furnace in Pittsburgh 10
producing To its full capacity.
NEw YORK is said To have 1900 bar
Der shops aud e3.0p0 BARRIERS.
THE fruit business of Omaha, Neb..
Is valued at 81. 500 600 annually.
OKLAHOMA is harvesting wheat
crop estimated at 40. ooO. 600 bushels.
nrmiN newspaper predicts great
panic in the German money market.
The number of languages aud dia-
lees spoken In the world amounts To
5000
RAILWAY wheels made of leather
have been experimental with In
France.
Is Russia you must marry before so
or not at all, and you may marry only
hvc times.
A Nrw automobile Is being built for
the prince of Wales, who will operate
1t himself
TWENTY-FIVE women have been
hanged in England during Queen VIC
toria's reign.
AT the present rate Of increase the
United States will have in 1900 atout
las, 600 physicians.
Nor one drop OF intoxicating liquor
is allowed To be sold at any of the mill
itary camps of Canada.
QurtS NiruELMISA. OF Holland has
passion for gay colors aud wears
dresses OF gorgeous hues
Is the FIRST half OF 1898 Jarau sent
$40, 500, 0ou gold To England. Thus far
IN 1899 II has sent only 81 $50.
GERMANY publishes about 90, 600
books year. France 1000. Italy 9, 900.
England G 900. United states 81, 900
JArAS has a new lighthouse, made
OF bamboo. which Is ta,d To resist the
waves better than any kind Of wood,
WAHHrS c, COLEMAN. Of Concord. N.
| C., il the richest coiored man in tho
south. Lie income Is inveated in cotton
mills
TuE constant labor OF four persons
for an entire year is required To pro-
duee IA cashmere shawl OF the beat
quality.
| is 81 Paul recently n toy fell from
y wall sixty feet to "a railroad track
below, and escaped without serious
injury.
A uroE wine barrel at Nancy accom-
/
had been building II for the Paris cx.
hibition.
Lao XIII. has just received n present
OF an automobile, sent to him by
dovont rench manufacturer OF these
| vehicles.
| TnE only two great European capi-
| tails that have never been occupied by
= foreign foe are London and st.
| PetcrsburR
JAMts CLAHE. Of Quincy. III. who
| celebrated his tooth birthday recently,
Ia now the only bona hde oldest mason
| Ia America.
+. w. DAVIS, eK.mayoF of Peoria, ILL.,.
although ~ years. Ia an invrtcrata
rider of the bicycle, which be began 10
ride when 6l
JoHN {, hLAUpth who died recently
Ia Philadelphia, was the original tin.
can mush man aud made a.. 600 600 IA
the business.
BuFrAIos new Union Railroad sta
ton, 10 cost a., 000. 900, ia 10 have a
waiting room 80 ~ 2a5 feet. said to 10
the largest IN the world.
Dunis0 the last half year 1875 vessels
aRgregatinR ga s77 tona were launch
ed on the clyde, beating all records.
England stin rules the seas
Aa association Of London women
conducts the genial business of caring
Tor window boxes aud growing flowers
for balconies and small gardens
J. l.. bhYAsr. the Hardwall. Ky.
millionaire, owns the largest straw
berry patch ia the world Ii covers
|. ZOO acres and has made his fortune
Tommy Tompkins 81 bet my pup kin
lick your kitten" Willie wilkins "Wrll,
! bet II he does he'll wish he hadn't when
my kitty grows up."-Ohio State journal.
Lying's a certain marx u eowardlce.--