Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-07-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

any street railway in Great Britain.
Miners are the wealthiest and hes.
organized Of trades unions in France.
A railroad engine may be roughly
said to be equal to the strength Of zoe
horses
About 20 per cent of the population
of the Klondike are from the United
States.
Quarantine was first established
against infectious diseases in the
tenth century.
Since 1879 France has spent $l2O.
100000 on canals. This does not in
clude Panama.
The hosting of the black flag after
executions is TO be discontinued in
London. England
1t has been decided that no Hebrews
be further admitted to the railway
school in Odessa.
1t is estimated that Canadian for
ests will furnish wood for the pulp in.
dustry for $40 years.
Mormons clans to have 5000 mis-
sionaries in the field, and to have made
10000 converts last year.
Samuel Day. of Wesley. Me. has
slain 251 deer since 1865, and is con
sidered the State champion"
In a small "greaser" hamlet near
Phoenix, Ariz.. is a saloon with this
sign: "All nations welcome-Even
Carrie"
The first shipment of wheat from
Chicago via the lakes was made in
1S3S. The shipment consisted of rs
bushels.
The largest loaves of bread in the
world are those baked m France and
Italy. They are often as much as six
feet long.
Great Britain and Ireland import
about 265,000 pounds of cheese each
year. Canada supplies about 60 per
rent of the whole
There are consumed in the neighbor
hood of 50,OOO,OOO pounds of hops an.
nually in the United States in the
manufacture of beer.
Col. ]. T. Marsh. late of the ROYAL
engineers. has six sons holding com.
missions in the English army, all OF
whom have seen serious fighting
Congressman Heatwole. of Mime
apolis, has a trout brook on his farm
and is the only private owner of trout
with gold spots in the United States
Abraham Simmer. of Waverly. Ia.
the wealthiest man in that vicinity
VIII devote the balance of his life to
giving away a fortune of $4,000 600
The Bulletin des Halles (Paris)
fDf hnt .
into Siberia in 1901 was 1859: the
number Of emlgrants tneretrom 81.
$50.
Authorities of the Smithsonian In.
stitution say that more varieties OF
poisonous snakes are found in Arizona
than in any other part of the United
States.
The French government has decided
to install in the Pantheon, Paris the
famous pendulum by which Foucauld
in 1857, demonstrated the rotation OF
the earth
In many parts of Central Asia the
fear Of locusts has caused the natives
to reduce the areas planted in cotton.
In some regions only half of last ears
area has been planted.
Clara Barton. head Of the Red Cross
society. has been invited by President
Diaz. Of Mexico, to come to the CITY
OF Mexico, and there organize a
branch of the society for the republic.
The mountain at Gouffol. near
Mines. France. which some time ago
attracted much attention by having
shifted its position, has now blocked
mp the only road which connected with
Trescol
Six thousand is the record number
Of roses produced by one tree at a
time. This was in Holland on Nine.
Regnew's land. A Marechal Mel at
Whitby has had $500 blooms on It at
the same time.
Charles r. Klein Of St Louis. has
much Of the furniture I'm his house
made ~ horns Of different animals
which he gathered during his many
years residence in western Texas
Miss dc Mattos a cousin OF Robert
Louis Stevenson. 20 whom the author
dedicated his DR. JaEvlI and Mr..
Hyde AS VOL as % number of poems.
has just been married fin England 20
Wr Dalton
Pastor BARTLETT. Of Chicago IS pro.
posing plan 20 place. for q short time
before the hour of the Sunday evening
service. q band Of about forfs singers
upon me church steps that their songs
may induce many 90 enter Tho church
Jacob Worth AT one time the re.
publican boss ~ Brooklyn has had
every one of BIS teeth axtrartr9 fn the
hoIe Of getting relief from nauraI eia