Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-03-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

Great Britain has no distinctive
and exclusive throne.
One person in every thirty in
England and Wales is n pauper.
At present each 100000 tons of
coal raised costs one human life.
a fire has been raging in a rich
Pennsylvania coal field for ~ years.
Lions and tigers are too weak in
lung power to run more than half a
mile.
Senior Sagasta heads the new Span
ish cabinet. Gen. Weyler is minister
of war.
The Hindu chronology extends to
6174 3. c.; Babylon, 675S 3. c.; China,
6157 Il. c.
Professional cyclists made over
100000 in prize money during the
past year.
In Prussia alone, in the ten years
ending 1896. 4O7 school children COM
United suicide
Our Indian population is not skilful
in any line of manufacture save their
own crude industries.
years, the Notifications of Paris are
at last to be destroyed.
The fastest-flowing river in the
world is the Sutlei, in India. It's de-
scent is 1900 feet in $50 miles.
At Schoenbrunn. the Austrian en-
peror's palace, is the finest collection
of orchids in the world, numbering
$4,000 plants.
a fiber company is preparing TO
manufacture gun stocks of fiber. with
a view to Tightening the weight of the
present rifle
An Ohio Clergyman has adopted
display newspaper advertising as a
means of increasing the size Of his
congregation.
Capt. Alfred Dreyfus has written a
book entitled "Five Years of My Life
dealing With his Imprisonment on
Devils Island.
Gen. Macarthur has issued state
nent to the Filipinos, offering to sur
render one prisoner for every gur
given up by the rebels.
The working force of the govern.
ment departments in Washington
number 10 ,446. drawing salaries to the
amount OF s16,62S, 5O5.72 per annum.
The censorship is very real thing
in China. There any one who writes
an Objectionable book is punished
with 100 blows of the heavy bamboo
and banished for life.
Bombay is an immense city. with
land and sea shipping equal to the
best. 1t has large commerce anC
trade and manufacturing interests
It's buildings are said to be finest il
India.
The death rate of the world is g.
and the birth rate 20 Il minute. and
this seemingly light percentage OF
gain Is sufficient 10 give a net il,
crease IN population each year OF /,
100000.
In the years 1sGS and 1899 German,
held second place in shipbuilding. but
for various reasons, the shipbuildine
I'm 1900 has received such an impetu.
in the United States that it has placed
Germany third.
The distinction among animals 81
requiring least sleep belongs to tho
elephant. III spite Of it's capacity foI
hard work, the elephant seldom, il
ever, sleeps more than four, or occa
sionally FIVE, hours.
The inks Of ancient days were
much like black paint. and. on &C.
count Of the large quantity of gum
employed in their composition. the
letters stood up in relief on the parch.
ments rs though embossed.
Smoking pipe Of medium size, saw,
a statistician, n man blows out of his
mouth every time he fills the bow
700 smoke clouds. If he smokes four
times day for twenty years he
blows 2o,4io,OO smoke clouds.
The common potato, when decom-
posing. gives light enough TO read
by-a light SO vivid that once - cellar
At StrasburC was thought TO be on
fire when shining with the phosphor-
escence Of decomposing potatoes.
The memorial OF Queen Victoria.
which has been approved by King Ed
ward. is To- be a monument. the most
prominent feature Of which will be- =
statue or the queen, 20 be erected
near Westminster Abbey or Bucking-
ham palace.
The ten largest German cities are
to-day: Berlin. 1s,t3fj Inhabitants.
Hamburg, 1OLGGJ; Munich. 100000.
Leipsic. 355,1s0: BrosIau. 422. Ais.
Dresden, 395,ato: Cologne. s7o.Gs5;
Frankfort, 257sl3: Nurcmbcro. 2Go..
733; Hanover. 23t9sG.
An English statstician has lust dc.
eided That of all the professions. the
church has produced the greatest
number Of distinguished men. Ila az.
scrts that 30 per cent. OF the pcoplo
in the Dictionary Of National Bio.
graphy' are The sons OF clcrgymcu.
il is predicted that the Triumpbal
bridge at the Pan-Amcricau cxposi-
ton viii surpass in beauty The great
Alexander bridge at the Paris expo.
sitiOn.
A German syndicate has offered n