Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-08-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

= I,NuO TO =, pUO per year.
The library at West Point Military
academy contains $4,000 volumes.
About 80 per cent. of the starch made
In the United States is made from corn.
John Mahin, of Muscatine. la. has
been editor of the Muscatine Journal
for fifty years
One of the greatest rivers Of the
world. the Orinoco, is also one of the
least known to Europeans.
Farmers in Ontario. Can. find it diff
fcult to obtain help. even though $l.75
day and board is offered
British Columbia loggers are prepar-
ing to export cedar in large quantities
10 all parts of the world.
Paper coal is a form Of Ignite found
near Bonn, Germany. 1t splits natur-
ally in films as thin as paper.
Herr Hofrath Emanuel Hermann.
who is said TO have been one OF the
originators of the postcard system. has
just died in Vienna
An estimate is made that the rall
roads of the country this year will ex-
pend S4O0,O00.OOO in betterment. cut
offs. rolling stock, etc.
The Russian government has ordered
private maritime companies to dis
charge all foreigners who refuse to be
come Russian subjects.
zee Lee, a Sandwich Island China
man, runs the worlds greatest duck
farm. The hatcheries of this captain
OF industry yield 1900 ducks a week.
The Royal Society of Great Britain
has announced a new determination
ol the heat of the sun. II is made W
Prof Chas. Wilson. who places il at
11,192 deg. Fahrenheit.
A Samuel Gridley Howe monument
fund has been started by the Greeks.
who wish to erect monument in BOs-
ton in memory of DR.. Howe's noble
work for the Greek people
The grain rate from Canada to Liy-
erpool is IL cent a busheI cheaper
than by way OF New York. and III
consequence. Canadian shipments ex-
coed those from American ports.
Twelve sugar beet factories are to
be built in Washington for the purpose
OF manufacturing syrup from the SUI
Gar. which will contain SO 10 per cent
more sugar than New Orleans syrup.
British fruit growers are adopting
the idea Of covering their crops with
paper sheets during the cold nights.
small outlay in labor and paper -
suits in considerable saving in tho
long run.
Here is a case where marriage il a
lottery and was brought about by a
lottery. An Oklahoma girl won a $50. -.
OOo prize in land lottery and at once
received an offer of marriage. which
she Immediately accepted.
Since the disasters in Martinique
and St Vincent somebody has taken
the trouble to count up the worlds
volcanoes. The total. according to the
Paris Ciecle. is about 900. of which
S25 are still classed as active.
The overcoat to be worn by the
army will no longer be blue. but Will
be a double-breasted ulster and olive
drab cloth, the front to have buttons
by which the corners may be buttoned
back out Of the way when marching
The death Of Royal Z. Robbins. prac.
tically the founder of the American
Waltham Watch Co, ends the career
o. a man who for years employed thou
sands OF men and never once was
threatened with a strike in his works
The list regiment OF New York is
contemplating an interesting celebra.
ton next May The regiment was ia
Cuba during the war with Spain and
u Us the intention that next Nav some
900 officers and men will visit the u.s.
land again, making a tour of various
interesting places III possible the
voyage viii be made in the steamer
NigiIancia the transport which pre-
Viously conveyed the list 10 cuba.
The treasury department at Wash.
ington announced the other dav tina,
this country possesses about quarter
81 all the gold that has been made uu
into money in the entire world To
quote the official figures there IS now
IN the United States including treas.
ury coin and bullion. 81 200 600 600 of
gold money whereas the worlds entire
stock Of gold money Us worth less than
FIVE thousand millions $4,000. zoo. 900
according 20 the latest figures
The famous Cleopatras Needle
erected $500 years ago by King Tbot.
mes ILL.,, 'COnqucrcr OF Central Africa
Palentine and Mesap0tamia 10 cello
brate In yainglOri0us hieroglyphics his
own and the campaigns and titles of
bis descendant Rameses IT. is threat
ened with another attack OF maIadis
de granite
j. j.. Wood, a raDcher Of Spencer.
IDA. has sent 10 Boston the largest
consi gnment Of wool ever shipped by
one man from the west 20 the east ID
amounted to about 100000 pounds.
which at ia cents per pound yielded
Nr Wood nearly $4,000.