Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-06-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

Sir Thomas Upton will again race
Tor Americas cup.
The Unit ed States produces % per
cent of tho worlds coal.
Absolom cambridge, who aided
Booth to escape, is dead.
President Roosevelt, in his daily
walks and drives. carries a revolver
The Missouri State university is to
confer the degree of doctor OF laws
on Mark Twain at the coming com
mencement
Because he thought his wife loved
her poodle dog better than she loved
him, George Holocner, of Camden.
committee suicide.
Berlin has to provide for $3.50 pau
per lunatics, among whom are a Ium-
Der of eX-government officials. actors,
artists and musicians.
Nearly 10000 yards of sausage were
devoured in the eleven days OF the
book beer season at the Hofbrauhaus
in Munich this spring.
Boston is erecting its first neigh
borhood town hall" where there will
be restaurants and recreation rooms
for all who care to patronize.
Women teachers in Prussian schools
get, besides free dwelling. only $175 a
year to begin with. This is raised TO
1890 after 81 years of service.
Nicaraguas latest purchase for her
navy is the obsolete German war YES
sci Arminius, which. being 20 years
old, was about to be broken up at
Hamburg
In the course of terrible cyclone
at Bugie. Algeria, a shower of rats
and mice fell over the district for the
space of about a quarter of an hour,
covering the fields.
Twenty-Five dollars a year is the
subscription price of the Northern
Light, small weekly paper published
an BEETLES, Alaska. Single copies of
the paper sell for so cents.
At Boulogne the old chateau in
which Napoleon l. resided while SUI
perintending the preparations for his
projected invasion OF England has just
been converted into an orphanage.
1t is estimated that fully 80 900, 600
people are living in the United States
e under prohibition, either by state law
or by local option. This is more than
a third of the entire population of the
republic
If all the land planted in corn In the
United States this year were massed.
the area would exceed the British Isles,
Holland and Belgium combined. or
four-fifths OF the area of France or
Germany.
Eight hundred and sixty nine novels
NIL 1iCI tn
last year by 467 authors. Only so of
these wrote more than one book Three
hundred and nine writer's were men
and 15S women.
Bishop Stone-Wigg, of New Guinea.
told an English audience recently that
episcopal duties in his missionary field
are varied, he having been called up
on not long before to act as pig-sticker
at a native feast.
Lady Pauncefote, with her daugh.
tiers, will remain at the British EN-.
bassy in Washington until her hus-
bands remains are placed on the
United States warshIp which will oar
Ty them to England.
The eruptions of Mt Pelee have evil
IDENTITY alarmed some Of the timorous
In Texas. One of these believes the
digging of so many oil wells near
beaumont makes a general cave-in OF
that state probability.
When a ten-pound note was found I'm
the offertory box at the Kandu Myo.
jim shrine. at Toxic. recently. II was
considered too big an amount TO be
offered TO a deity and the matter was
forthwith reported to the police.
Two large laurel wreaths placed on
the grave Of the late Bret Harte at
Frimley bear the inscription. In Low.
ing Remembrance. From the Bohemian
Club. San Francisco" and I'm Re.
membrane, From Sir Henry irving"
In Vienna telephone booths are fur.
nished with napkins bearing the in.
scription, Wipe, II you please" Inc
napkins are changed frequently. and
this undoubtedly serves TO keep the
mouthpieces Of the transmitters in
good sanitary condition
French has been made the official
language OF the Quebec legislature
city council and board OF trade.
Englishspeaking members will be al
lowed 10 use their own language nj
course, but all the records are to be
kept in Franch. The change is due 10
the growth Of the French elemaut I'm
the three bodies named.
Brazilian nut growers will soon be
using hundreds OF monkeys as labor.
ers on their plantations. The expert
ence was tried by prominent planter
two years ago. and now he has p well.
trained band Of 80 Of the mischlevous
little animals. who do more work I'm
the gathering Of nuts and do 81 more
thoroughly than men.
a Danish inventor has discovered a
method Of making artificial marble OF
such delicate transitions OF tin, that
st is impossible 20 distinguish il from
the natural product