Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-07-16
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NAAeaiAN' buh SAONh VI stay III NOiOl
Miss Henrietta A. Kelly. of Charles
ton, S. c.. has gone into silk culture.
A complete set OF new stamps has
been ordered for Orange River Colony.
In the United States newspapers APP
pear printed in "a different languages.
A $4,000 900 combine is proposed
OF 80 glazed kid leather plants in the
east.
Residents of Buffalo. n. Y. use
more water than any other city In the
world.
Among new surgical instruments is
steam saw for removing diseased
parts of the liver.
Tigers killed 357 persons and
panthers 295 last year in the Indian
central provinces.
The annual crow hunt of the Elkin
CID Gun club resulted in the slaugh-
ter of 1896 crows.
Horace Greeley could read book or
newspaper upside down. He learned
to do so when a boy.
Rev. DR. John Bancroft Devins aud
John A. Oxford have purchased the
New York Observer.
watch that makes five beats a
second makes $4,000 a day. or nearly
15S000 600 in n year.
Seven clergymen and 1G lawyers are
inmates Of warehouses Gains housesl
in Yorkshire. England
Bamboo in Java makes an effective
poison, the hairs on the young root
being mixed with food
Science has no record of the dis.
covery OF mercury; history knows
nothing Of the discovery.
All the employees of the Barnum q
Bailey circus. now travelling in En-
rope, are total abstainers.
Forchon lace of any pattern can now
be made by one machine. owing to u
recent invention in Vienna.
The price of medicine in Prussia is
regulated by the state, new price list
being published every year
The butterfly invariably goes TO
sleep head downward on n stem OF
grass. with its wings tightly folded.
Thousands of LondOners have taken
on special insurance policies against
smallpox, ranging from $500 to $780,
600
The highest mountains in Cuba
reach greater heights than any peaks
in the eastern ranges of the United
States.
The mosquito eggs are. It is said.
Matched in from four to seven days.
according to the warmth Of the
weather
The physical effects of violent emo
ton are shown by hysteria and various
forms of insanity in animals as well
as in man.
Watchdogs are TO be purchased and
trained to accompany the police on
their nightly rounds in Schaerbcck.
near Brussels.
Berlin statisticians have found that
only 597 Christian names are en-
ployed for the Al 900 children born
there each year.
rhe sanitation of the city OF Ahmer.
dabad India. is so bad that the NOR
tally is 20 per 900, with no epidemic
to account for it,
The Fortieth Foot holds the distinc-
ton of having once been absent from
England on foreign service for 33
years at one stretch.
Because she refused TO wash a ba.
by's face. a native nurse at Hong.
Kong has been fined s5 for "disobedi-
ence OF lawful orders"
From China $500 900 worth Of human
hair is annually exported 1t comes
mostly from the heads OF malefactors.
pauperS and dead people
Tho pnpanrpVti 81
land has reached the total of 1l3
pounds n head year. which is more
than donhle what It was 50 years ago.
r. II. Alley. OF Seattle. Wash. has
returned from Australia where he
says he secured 81 500 900 capital to
erect and operate wooden mill in Sc.
attic
Dr Patrick Manson. the malaria ex
pert. points out in London periodical
that malaria is far too frequently as.
Fumed 20 be present in patients when
no such faint exists.
Mrs Neve. ~ Guernsey. Channel
Islands. aged III. IS said 70 be Ed
ward Wis oldest subject Her birth
is on record in ST. Peter Port Parish
church on the island
Miss McKeevcr OF Roxburv. Mass.
has resigned after serving as army
nurse for four years Tn the philip.
pines she was az the head of one NJ the
largest army hospitals I'm the Islands
All the new trains ON The Central
London railway are 90 Doe of frcprooT
construction. steel and asbestos being
largely used other precautions for
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