Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-06-26
CURRENT TOPICS.

IN Ohlhd lqulus are SOld by weight
and grain by measure.
Outside the cities there is very lit
Gle organized labor in the south.
J. NJ. Martin, of Laurens county,
S. C., has whiskers SIX feet long.
New Orleans has taken second rank
rs an exporting port having displaced
Boston.
The 1900 corn crop of Russia has
beer officially estimated at 1926, 900
bushels.
The New Jersey supreme court has
decided that street railway franchises
are taxable.
Acknowledgement Knox has bought
handsome and expensive house in
Washington.
The oldest Protestant church in
the United States is St. Luke's, at
Smithfield. Va.
The number Of sheep in Australia
STA decreased from 124, 900, 900 in 1891
to oO,OOO,oOO in 1000.
1t is reported in Washington that
Senator Dcpew viii be married this
summer to widow who is now
abroad
According to the Galveston News
the area sown to rice in Texas this
season exceeds that of last year by
300 per cent.
Exports of cotton seed from Egypt
for 1soo-1ooO are given officially at 49,
10000 bushels. a slight increase over
the preceding year.
The tail Of a cat which its feline
owner waves with such serpentine
&c Il
than the human hahd.
The United States is surpassed only
by Great Britain in the matter of
Japanese imports of machinery, loco
motives and other engines.
y Pennsy lvania grand jury has
recommended solitary confinement
with bread and water diet as rem
edy for the tramp nuisance.
In ruling paper the worker. using
quill and ruler, seventy years ago
took 4.sOO hours To do the work now
done by machine liz "a hours.
The ocean. it is estimated. contains
100000 cubic miles Of salt. and if il
could be taken out at once the level
of the water would drop an inch.
1t is said that - per cent of the
young men who have applied for ad.
mission to West Point have been un-
abe TO meet the physical qualfica.
tons.
Jean Coquclin, "A son of the great
actor, is giving promise OF high work
as a dramatist and his version of
"Quc Nadis' has just been most sue
cessful in Paris
The Pope has from time to time in
vested his surplus income in United
States government bonds and the ex-
tent OF his holding Of this sort is now
estimated at 3O,OOO.0OO lire
DR.. y. Seward Webb's country place
in Vermont. SheIburne farms. covers
1000 acres OF ground, and is the Iarg.
est estate owned by single indiyid.
ual east of the Mississippi.
Cinnamon always show great re.
spect for the dead. In all parts Of the
empire funeral professions have the
right of way in the streets and all
traffic must give way TO them.
Fosters old Folks at Home" is the
most popular song i'm existence. 1t
has been translated into all the lar
guagcs of Europe and also into some
of Asia and the isles Of the sea.
James Outterson Pratt. who is said
TO have bought for 1850 the site or
which the town Of Johannesburg now
stands. died several weeks ago in the
Guiltord workhousc, near London.
The Count and Countess de Castel
lane we're barred from entrance to
the cathedral at Rouen a few DAYS
ago on account Of their costumes
They we're IN bicycle rairrcnt so LOUD
In In,
her their protests.
SNOW has visited unusual places
this season. 1t has fallen i'm Mexico
City the first time ia fifty years. and
sn Madrid. whore IL had rot been seer
for eight years. IN Jerusalem snow
fell 70 the depth Of II inches.
The horses ridden by Lord Kitch.
cner's flying cavalry TO chase the elu.
sive Gen. De Wet across the south
African ycldt are sbod with sho,s
made in Pcnusl ltania. the contract
for their construction having been
made through the iustrumentalitv of
the commercial museums iu PhiladeI
phia.
The Atlantic pigeon post Which
was suspended for the winter. will be
resumed this month. Passengers on
board Atlantic steamers can avail
thcmseltes of the birds ~ Ic. thcn
friends hear Of The progress of the
voyage or of their impending a.ri.
val OF the hundreds OF pigeons sent
of 10 sea last year only t,so went
nftray Some ncW over zoo miles
= ,critaoIe "ou,ck luncheon. 70 f..
faid- is to ue bad 90 % restaurant So