Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-04-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

England's budget deficit will reach
G27 100000
South Carolina has 80 600 operatives
in cotton mills.
Some New York restaurants now
have smoking rooms for ladies'"
No less than 1876 species of butter.
flies are found in Mexico and Central
America.
Electricity has increased the power
OF sea coast lights to that of 1900,
600 candles.
The average wages of women in
France are only about one-third those
OF the men.
Before Chinaman can quit Austria
liza he is compelled to register and
leave his photograph.
the Chicago ministers are going to
begin crusade against the slaughter
OF pigeons In trap shooting.
The freight charges for hauling an
thracite coal from Pennsylvania mines
aggregates $4,000 900 a year.
Venezuelan coffee planters get only
one-third the price they used to be-
fore Brazilian overpIoC uction ruined
the market.
The prince of Wales private study
at Sandringham is one of the small
est rooms in the palace and is lighted
only by a single window.
After two years test of an auto
mobile for army use in Austria there
was a saving Of S2,915 over the con-
veyance drawn by horses.
The Greeks. after exercising, always
anointed their bodies with perfumed
oil, sometimes performing this anoint,
ing three or four times a day.
In nearly every street IN Japanese
cities is a public oven where. for
small fee, housewives may have their
dinners and suppers cooked for them.
The vine will not grow at a greater
hight than 1000 feet above the sea
nor the oak above $3.50 feet The
fir, however. f1ourishes up to nearly
1000 feet.
Water thrown upon ice in the Arc
tic regiops will SILVER it just as boil
ing water breaks glass. This is be-
cause the ice is so much colder than
the water.
DR. d. NJ. Foster, one of the few
survivors of the band Of men who built
the first railroad west Of the Allie
ghenies. about 1880, is still living at
Bloomington, III.
For sending a congratulatory tele-
gram to the kaiser on his birthday
several sergeants of a Prussian in
fantry regiment were placed under ar
rest for five days.
statistics the total imports and ex-
ports OF the manufacturers of the
United States now average over 81.
600 600 day each.
NJ. Savorgnan de Brazza, the Italian
explorer in the service of the French
government, is to be granted an an
nual pension OF 10000 francs-a re-
ward for ten years service.
An increase of 100000 marks is
shown in the German imports from
America last year over the year before
The exports to this country showed
a decrease OF 100000 marks.
The Municipal consumption hos
pital of New York city has proved so
efficaclous that four buildings will be
added to it and the appropriation for
its support increased by $4S 900 annu-
ally.
The COWS in Belgium wear ear
rings The law DEGREES that every COW
when y has attained the age of three
months must have in it's ear a ring
20 which it attached a numbered met
al tag.
The average number of inmates in
Bellevue hospital, New York. is equal
10 that OF a good-sized town-that is
from 1000 to 3000-and of these a
good many are unable TO help them
selves
Senior Gonzales de Quesada is men
toned as Cuba's first diplomatic rep
resentative at Washington He was
a prominent member Of the Cuban
junta and OF the Cuban constitutional
convention.
Princess Iolanda Of Italy. at the
age Of 7 months, is beginning to talk.
She says papa" and mamma" and
her English and Italian nurses are
quarreling as 10 whether she is speak
ing Italian or English
sir Richard Temple. who died in
London recently. was the greatest
authority of his time on Indian ar.
fairs. He wrote many books relating
to India and was decorated with the
principal Indian orders.
Thomas Sedgwick Steele. the Bos.
ton artist has four large scrap books
which he compiled on the civil war
from newspaper clippings Every
battle or skirmish is pasted in ts
correct chronological order.
The Prussian budget for 1902 fin.
cludcs appropriations Of 10000 marks
for further study Of means Of proven.
ton and early diagnosis Of typhoid
fever, 10000 marks 20 the committee
n cancer research and SO 900 marks
for a cancer hospital and laboratory
The new electric stages running ON
Fifth avenue New York. have tray
cling radius OF about 40 roifoe and "a