Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-03-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

Ninety-five tons of gold and $50
OF silver are mined in a single year.
Ohio has 26,92O working women.
Their average weekly wages are $4.S2.
w. c. Arnett, of Slssons. Cal, is try
Ing to cure himself of govt by fasting.
Soldiers in the Italian army are
each allowed half a gallon of wine per
week.
The potato forms nearly IA per cent
of the total food of the people of this
country.
Sponge yield in Florida last year
amounted to 3G5, 900 pounds, worth
$567,OOO.
Orchards in France are valued at
$500 an acre; vineyards ut $24O; pas
ture at $50
Only so per cent. of the 1.17O.OOO
males over q in London are on thu
register of voters.
The Krupp factory, the biggest iron
working concern in the world, uses up
300 tons OF steel day.
The founder of the house of Hohen.
Eollern was Thassilo, first count of
Eollern, who died in 500.
A resident of Akron, O.. has offered
to present thousand elm trees to
the residents of Cleveland.
The costliest fur is that of the sea
otter. A single skin of this animal
Will fetch as much as $1,000.
Daniel Tarboe Jewett of st. Louis.
who is 80 years old, is still practicing
law and spends six hours at his desk
every day.
1t is reported that no fewer than 10
officers of the garrison at Perzemisl. in
German Poland. committed suicide
within three months
That old joke about IA fire in a stone
yard" must be called in. A recent
tonfiagration in a Philadelphia mar
Bile and granite plant caused a loss Of
100000.
In return for the monument of
Goethe, which Emperor William has
presented to Rome. the city council
at recent meeting, proposed to pre-
sent to the city of Berlin a monument
OF Dante
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker. last
surviving child of the Rev. DR.. ~
man Beecher, has just celebrated the
SOth anniversary of her birth at her
home in Hartford. Conn.
The average duration of marriages
in England is rs years. Russia, with
30 years, is the only country TO beat
her. In France and Germany &c years
is the average duration.
Hannis Taylor minister to Spain
under President Cleveland. and a
writer on constitutional law. has ac-
cepted the degree of IL. d. offered by
1he university of Dublin.
General Greedy tried the experiment.
when he was at Malta, and found that
the average time for sending a letter
TO the several telegraph Offices on the
island Of Luzon was 90 days.
The Roman stylus was often made
heavy, that it might be used as a weap.
on. 1t was with such a stylus as this
that Caesar defended himself when
attacked by the conspirators.
Portugal is the most illiterate coun.
try in Europe; G7 per cent. Of its pop
ulation can not write. In Italy the
proportion Of illiterates is SO per cent.
In Russia 36. in Spain 9, in Britain 315.
There are at present more miles Of
horse car lines in New York city than
IN all the rest of the country com
bined. The mileage in the metropolis
Is 119; in the rest Of the United States
1O7.
The kaiser has presented one of the
bronze cannons captured in Picking to
Count Won Waldersee. ne gun. which
IS $50 years old. @as used by the Chi
nese in their siege of the foreign Iega-
tions.
DR. J. Edward Hayes. an American
BY birth and a surgeon major I'm tn
Sidmcse navy for the past - years.
has recently had conferred upon him
b. the king of Siam the Royal OrIar
OF the White Elephant
Mrs. sally Bunneu. of Provo Utah.
has the distinction OF having PIG Hv.
ing descendants. She is % years old.
end has seven children. % grandchiI
Crcn. 135 great-grandchildren and four
great-grcatR grandchildren
JOHN Z. Tracy OF Crossville. Tenn.
bes presented the Wisconsin state
Historical society with an old colonial
chair which was once the property Of
Roger sherman one of the signors OF
the declaration Of independence.
IT was William Pitt who originated
the income tax in Great Britain in 17sa
as a war tax. The Napolconic wars
were fought with il. From that time
60 this it has been the resort of all
ministers to meet war expenditures.
IN 1900 there were in the United
States 372 boiler explosions. by which
%6S persons were BILLED and $50 wound
ed In Great Britain during the same
period, only q persons were KILLED
and o5 wounded 9y boiler explosions
So much restitution prevails among
the Moscow university students chat
half their number have petitoncd 10
be excused paying their university