Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-04-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

Brazil is having its money coined
at the Vienna mint.
King Oscar of Sweden possesses a
medal for life saving.
Perry Belmonts annual club dues
amount to nearly $4,000
There are so miles of New York
streets on which horse care are run.
One acre of sage palm yields as
much nourishment as 1853 acres of
wheat
Pennsylvania silk mills have been
organized with a capital OF nearly 81.
100000
The erection of an electric process
steel plant is promised at Elizabeth.
ton, Tenn.
French seamen and miners are
Obliged by law to make provision for
their old age.
The fiaXseed crop of Argentina for
1SO1-O2 has been officially estimated
at 1889, 102 bushels.
A Baltimore engraver has put the
alphabet on the head of a common
pin. The work took only an hour and
Il half
Literature, which set out TO be the
leader OF the literary weeklies in Eng.
land and in America, is said to be on
the market
The king of Siam owns an army
corps of 500 elephants. all well trained
Tor military purposes, and under com.
mand of a general.
The Budget Committee of the
French chamber of deputies adoptod
credit of only 10000 francs for the
st. Louis exposition.
Honorary grand chief of the Huron
indians is the latest title which has
been conferred on the earl of Minto
encouragement of Canada
Maj. John E. Barrow, who so years
ago was partner in the grocery bust.
ness with Ethan Allen Hitchcock. sec.
retary OF the interior, is dead.
Dan X. Hanna. son of the Ohio
senator, has paid $500 and S1.OSO.
respectively, for two short horn cows
bred by Queen Victoria at Windsor.
Robert c. Crowry, the new presi.
dent of the Western Union Telegraph
company, entered the Joliet. H.. office
OF the company as messenger bow
at the age of 10.
An amalgamation of the great eY
port -four milling firms of the Pacific
coast is being worked into shape AZ
Portland, Ore. 1t will have a capital.
fzation OF $10.OO0,OOO.
Worcester, Mass. has a strange
freak of nature in its elephant tree.
a mammoth elm, with a peculiar
growth upon the side, resemb bling per.
fectly the trunk of an elephant.
The pope's income is S1.4OO.OOO
oneseVenth of which is guaranteed
by the emperor of Austria. another
seventh comes from vested interests
and the remainder is derived from Pc
tiers pence
One German engineer officer has
been sentenced to months imprison
ment and another heavily fined for
receiving presents from the contract
ors engaged on the new fertilization
scheme al Metz
Twenty sculptors have signi
fed their intention 10 submit designs
for the statue OF Gen. Mcclellan. which
is TO be erected in Washington This
is believed TO be- the largest number
ever entered i'm such a competition.
Three handcufed native conyict-
jumped of a mail train i'm Bengal
while it was going at forty miles an
hour Two Sikh warders jumped aft
or them Two of the convicts were
Killed and one OF tine warIcTs u.
jured
The latest recruit 10 the ranks If
the motor enthusiasts raYrr. .g.a
tive of European royalty. Tho Ou.D.
Regent oil Spain has avn amomo5I.
Sine Is fond OF athletics. and r.
tain portion of her time each aay
given up to recreation
Gen. Eugene Griffin. gf nc Unite.
States army. has u DIS poe es..or
the American faz m3dr by the sail
ols in Lieut. GHmores party out %.
patches and shreds OF their CLOTHING
after their rescu. from the iusareont.
in the widest part of Luz0u.
Prince Eitcl Fritz the kasors Gee
ond son. 10 to follow his elder brother
to the university Of Bonn beginning
his studies with the next summer
semester
The sultan has issued an trade pro.
hibiting gambling in his dominions.
and ordering the prosecution OF the
lessees Of those establishments where
IL is carried on
Large contracts nave been received
by the Bethlehem steel company and
10 oil orders 500 additional men will
be employed for nearly a year. One
contract cai@ for $4,000 tons OF angle
iron for structural work.