Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-05-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

lIulng aStrlde is the fad among
horsewomen in Boston society.
Thirteen new beet sugar factories
are contemplated in nine states.
The veteran singing master, Manuel
Garcia, has attained the age of 90.
y horse eats nine times it's weight
in food in "A year. a sheep six times.
There were twenty-five administra-
lions during the reign of the late
Queen Victoria.
No picture is hung on the walls OF
the Louvre, in Paris, until the artist
has been dead ten years.
Henceforth soldiers in the Greek
army will be taught to grow and cure
tobacco for their own use.
In the Vatican there are II 900
rooms. OF these Pope Leo reserves
Tor his own use only three.
A twentieth of Scotland's area Is
forest land, seven-tenths is mountain,
heath and lake and only one-quarter
cultivated land.
The total cost OF the Transsiberian
railroad is estimated at $500. 600. 900,
of which amount three-fifths already
has been expended.
JIG OF New YORK
has decided that "A married woman
must turn her wages over to her hus-
band if he so wills.
The infancy of British manufactur-
ing was nlrsed by engineers from
Holland. who superintendent the cree
zion of wind and water mills.
According TO New York newspa-
per, which processes to have made a
dlhgent and thorough inquiry, there
nre 3,S2S millionaires in the United
States.
Artificial silks are made of wool
Eber, dissolved to glue-lillc con-
sistency by acids, forced through
holes in glass and drawn out into
Threads.
Edward Nero. who succeeds Alexis
T.. Frye as superintendent of schools
IN Cuba, is said by the Havana Post to
be one of the best educated men in
ahe island.
EN-Gov. Hogg is n queer citizen.
Having made a fortune in oil he has
discovered that the use of money is
no enable its possessor to keep out
of politics.
DIR. John j. Kinyoun, the federal
quarantine officer Mt San Francisco.
las been transferred 10 the depart
ment of Dakota, with headquarters
ht st. Paul, MINI.
Mrs. Burton Harrison does most of
her writing in the morning. She GEN
orally begins work about an hour aft
er breakfast and writes until > o'clock
TN the afternoon.
The rumor that Henry James is to
5orsake his English home and live in
Boston has been revived and is again
denied by Mr.. James in an interview
In an English newspaper.
The school teachers of Oklahoma
have given Governor Barnes of that
territory, pair of driving horses as
q recognition of his work for the pub
JIG schools of that territory.
President Diaz of Mexico is n most
abstemeous man. His daily fare il
almost spartan, and even when he
attends official banquets he departs
but little from his regular diet.
Gertrude Atherton, the novel
ist, rs at present at st. Thomas, Dan
ash West Indies, making Investigations
In Nevis and st. CroiX concerning the
parentage of Alexander Hamilton.
Cast steel was manufactured in In
6ia before the birth OF Christ. There
are also examples of wrought iron
work nearly as old. Near ReIhi. close
20 Kubub there is an enormous
wrought iron pillar which weighs ton
tons. and is thought to be nearly .. 600
years old.
y Shakespearean novelty OF a ,inio-
ne kind was the recent performance
at Manchester, England, of deaf and
dumb Hamlet II was a pantomimic
representation of the great poet's
masterpiece. without the utterance
of one single word of all his imrUort-
al poesy. Players and audience alike
were deaf mutes
steps are being taken 10 discourage
dePopulation IN ct, n town ia the
Ardenncs. Hereafter, in all town of.
fees, first fathers OF more than
three children. and next married men
will be preferred TO bachelors. Irizes
Of 2j francs will be awarded YEARLY
80 those parents who have sent the
largest number Of children 20 school
regularly.
The Ladies of St. Anthony Park.
suburban district lying midway be.
tween Minneapolis and ST. Paul. have
organized under the leadership OF
Prof Otto Luggcr. cutomolo-iet of
the Minnesota State Agricultural
College, fer q campaign against the
mosquito pest Their weapon +.
kerosene. and they propose 20 s. icld
81 cGectually
To Tie average eye not NOR" than
t,OOO stars .~e visible; some person.
having extraordinarily strour eyes
can sec about 5000 stars THROUGH
the Lick telescope and other power
I'll instruments about $1,000 900 stars
are visible. There are believed 20 be
stars in existence beyond the reach