Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-12-24
CURRENT TOPICS.


English trades unions are for direct
labor representation in parliament.
Public gambling is likely to be abol.
ished in Switzerland at an early date.
Four new light houses have been
erected recently on the coasts Of the
Red sea-
Europe's beet sugar crop for 1902
1903 will, it is estimated, be about g.
100000 tons.
Hong-Kong is to be presented with
the first statue raised in honor OF the
prince OF Wales.
In Italy automobiles are not allowed
to go faster than Is miles in the day.
time and eight at night.
AS substitute for butter. both NJ
table and in the kitchen, goose fat is
largely used in Germany.
Gertrude Atherton, who has return
ed from her visit to Denmark. is to
branch out as dramatist
Skyscrapers are not wanted in Par
Is The new regulations limit the
height of building to sc feet.
Tolstoy believes that the best time
for literary work is between a m
and p. m, and he seldom writes at
other times.
In Southern China the air is so nu-
mid in summer that, despite the in
tense heat, clothes can not be dried I'm
the open air.
Three rivers as big as the Rhine
would just equal in volume the Gan
ges, three Gangeses the Mississippi
ana TWO Nhssissippis the Amazon
twenty-five thousand pounds. tie
h[sS prize in the Russian state lot
tery. has been won by four members
OF wealthy banking firm at Halle.
Authorities of British Columbia
have established travelling libraries
Tor the benefit of the numerous lum-
Der and mining camps in that pro-
vince.
Molokai. the leper island of Hawaii.
is oyerrun with many thousands OF red
deer. the descendants of a few that
were imported from England to stock
parks.
Attempts are being made in Califor
MA to acclimate the pistacchio nut.
which promises to become an impor-
tant addition to that states nut pro-
duction.
When free from ice the Yukon river
is navigable for large steamers .965
miles-a distance more than twice as
great as that from Chicago to New
Orleans.
In Berlin restaurants oysters cost
from 5esto rs cents per dozen. Thev
are small and OF inferior quality
Cooked oysters are never seen on Ger.
-RsAfl tables.
Several thousand employees have
been discharged from British shin
yards within two months. There is
less building than there has been a,
any time since 1897.
German tourist reports that on the
upper Amazon river it is customary
TO keep large harmless snakes about
the houses for the purpose of killing
rats and other vermin.
The world now consumes 6 300 600
% pounds Of tobacco yearly. or 2.S12-
500 tons. This is worth 100000 900
In other words. the worlds smoke bill
Is just $4,000 900 a week.
A rattlesnaKe that is five or six feet
in length will yield a tablespoonful OF
venom two or three times a month. II
takes its poison sacs at least a waak
to fill again after they have been emp
tied
FitzimmOns. despite his welLremem
bered defeat by Jeffries, wants to get
back in the lighting game He is now
touring the far West with Jeffries the
heavyweights giving boxing exhibi.
tons.
It is only within the last GO years
that coal has been mined on large
scale in France. In 1860 the output
was only 100 900 tons. In 1843 II was
barely 100000 tons. Last year il was
$4,000 900.
In 1927 a salmon. weighing So
pounds, was caught in the Tay This
is the record British fish The largest
American salmon on record was 50
pounds. II was caught in 1893 in the
Columbia river.
Rice fields are such great breeding
places OF mosquitoes that the italian
government passed n law as long ago
as 1862 regulating the distance from
dwellings at which the cultivation ~
rice is permissible
Queen Alexandra intends 10 marx
her sympathy for the sufferers in tho
recent South African war by giving a
Christmas dinner to all the widows
and children. now in London. Of those
who fell In the war
The police Of St Petersburg have ar
rested forty accomplices Of persons
who have been attempting to introduce
revolutionary proclamations into T:us.
eia. Among the persons taken alto
custody are several influential mini.
fists
White river. Arkansas IS said N bo
the croOkedest stream I'm the United
States. II not in the world. n travels
II 900 miles in travergingJa distance ~