Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-06-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

mere are eight submarine cables
OF over 1000 miles in length.
a Canadian salt trust, capitalized
at $s,00o,O00, has been formed.
Harvard professor has discovered
that there is snow on the moon.
Indian corn is gram of much inn
portance in the agriculture of Cuba.
Because his pension was not made
larger a Wisconsin man has refused
20 vote for twenty-seven years.
Ex-senator Charles A. Towne, OF
Minnesota. is said to have decided to
make his home in New York City.
Several hitherto unknown poems by
King James /. have been discovered
IN the Bodleian library at Oxford.
Australians are trying hard TO OBJ
tain market in London for the pas
sion fruit, which is so popular at the
antipodes.
During the last century 400 human
lives, $l25,000,000 and 200 ships have
been lost i'm fruitless efforts to lind
the North Pole.
The patronage of 952 English par
ashes is vested in the crown. of 69i
in the hands of bishops, and of 5,99G
Al private hands.
Surveys have been made along the
coasts of Cuba for the purpose of To-
eating the most available harbors
and coaling stations.
Russian railways are the most dan
gerous in the world Thirty per-
sons in every million passengers are
either killed or hurt
1t is believed that the figures of the
recent English census will prove
more reliable than any similar re-
turns previously made
The first elevator was made at
Schoenbrunn, the summer residence
of the Austrian Emperor, in 100. 1t
was called the flying chair"
That rare element. helion, has been
discovered in gases from the hot
springs at Bath. England. 1t costs
900 per cubic foot to collect.
The biggest diamond in the world
is the great Gobind gem. which
weighs nearly 40 carats. is as big as
an average inkstand, and worth about
$45O,OOO.
Dutfaud's English in Ireland
1895" which caused such a sensation
Us now said to have been painted ut
the suggestion of Maud Come, the
Irish aGitator.
1t costs $4,000 to scrape the bar
nacles off one of the men-of-,var and
repaint her. The operation has to be
repeated twice a year in the case Of
nearly every vessel.
Lloyd Osbourne. the stepson of the
late Robert Louis Stevenson. has pre-
scented to the University of Edin-
burgh valuable collection of the ia
nous writer's manuscripts.
Scientists have determined :ba+ the
purest air ia cities is found about IS
feet above the street. and hence it is
concluded that the healthiest apart
ments are those on the third floor.
There is only one lighthouse in
Alaska. That is a little concern of
the bug light description. which il
ct Sitka. Navigators in that region
ere' however glad of even this snail
favor.
George Mansfield, a wealthy far.
mer of Salem Center n. Y. rides &c
market every morning on his trottiny
COW Daisy. The odd combination is
q familiar sight on the streets of
the town.
\ number of people come home
from the seaside quite deaf. and very
many, if not deaf. are much harder
of hearing than when they left home.
The cause of this is blowing the nose
after bathing.
IL the North Pole is not discov.
cred in the next year the chances
are that l. viii never be. An expedi-
ton viii start out from nearly ev.
cry civilized country on the globe for
that long-sought-for region.
a member Of the British pnrIia.
ment declared that army officers who
were sent To Hungary and Austria "a
purchase horses bought broken-down
animals ard charged the government
extravagant prices for them.
Paris dentist has adopted the
plan of drawing teeth to the sound
Of music, and declares that his ex.
pertinent has proved successful The
soothing effect of the music is said to
counteract the pain Of the operation.
a little boy and girl were recently
arrested in Vienna for helping an Did
woman with bundle They were
placed in prison for six hours on ac.
count of having violated the CITY
laws by carrying parcels without ii.
ccnec.
Portugal is suffering from pIeth-
ora Of money just now not gold. Of
course. nor silver: but copper So
vast is The supply OF this inferior
metal that ordinary people are ex.
ceedingly chary Of changing such few
gold coins as they may come into pos.
session Of