Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-08-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

Buddhist priesthood IN Burmah.
Russian prophet says that the mil
lennium is to occur in three years.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt is one of the
most simple hammered of millionaires.
The amount of French capital in
vested in China exceeds 500. 0O0 900.
photographers throughout the country
are organizing and will demand high.
er wages.
Five thousand iron and steel work
nrs in South Wales have been granted
an increase in wages.
A strike OF colliery lads in three
Yorkshire CEng) districts has thrown
some 10000 miners idle
The bubonic plague at Canton and
Shemeen is of more malignant type
than That of former years
Mexican servants are said to be al
most worthless, judged by the Amer
lean standard of good service
In Persia the man who laughs is
considered effeminate, but free license
Is given TO female merriment.
Recent analysis Of the city water at
Manila showed that it was not respon-
sible for the cholera raging there.
What was probably the first public
library in the United States was
started in Charleston. S. c.. in 1749.
In Liverpool, which is the densest
and unhealthiest district in England.
the population is 63,S23 TO the square
mile.
There are 373.342 dogs in the king
dom of Bavaria on which taxes are
paid-one to every 16.5 OF the popu-
1ation.
Hungary will shortly be invaded b.
the Salvation Army. according TO a
letter written to a Hungarian friend
b. Gen. Booth
Australasia has suffered so severely
from drought that the cereal crops
now in the ground are likely to be
very deficient
Crematories for the destruction OF
the bodies of animals which have died
from infectious diseases are TO be
erected in Silesia
Sixteen thousand four hundred Ia
borers on the average find employment
daily at the docks and principal
wharves in London.
The mikado of Japan has presented
to Queen Alexandra a pair of the fa-
nous long-tailed birds of Japan and
ten dwarf chickens.
The kitchen tower OF the old castle
of st. Andrews, Fifeshire. Scotland
is being undermined and is In danger
of falling into the sea.
A locomotive built by Stephenson in
1922 Is now, after so years continuous
service. still working, hauling trucks
at Hetton in England.
Emperor Menelek, OF Abvssinia
told friend recently that he would
soon make tour of Europe. but had
not decided on the date.
In Switzerland, 1.271 hotels. having
an aggregate of 92,333 beds. have
been gotten ready this season for the
accommodation OF tourists.
The car of Russia has been taking
lessons in painting to amuse his leis-
IRE and is reported to have developed
quite talent in that direction.
The longest fence in the world is a
wire netting fence in Australia .236
miles long, its object being TO keep the
rabbits from the cultivated fields.
Potatoes form the worlds greatest
single crop. 4,OOO.0OO.OOO bushels be-
ing produced annually. equal in bulk
TO the entire wheat and corn crops.
The big lantern to be used in the
government lighthouse at Scotch Cane.
Alaska, has just been finished by an
Atlanta, Ca, manufacturing plant
The Austrian parliament has re-
solved 10 abolish the army practice OF
tying refractory soldiers mp to hooks
and binding their hands and feet.
In the Nineteenth ward of New Yorl,
all but one Of the streets and three
of the avenues are named after signers
Of the Declaration OF Independence.
There still fiourishes at Dundee
Scotland a tree which was dedicated
as a tree Of liberty" more than \
century ago during the ferment caused
by the French revolution.
Chorus girls do not draw fancy sal
aries. In the regular season the aver.
age salary Is SIS. while the show
girls draw SIS This may sound
large. but out IF this comes living OK.
Af"ll"fNs
Chronic sufferers from hay fever NAV
have good reasons for rejoicing this
year over the psedictians OF medical
experts. who say that Tho cause of that
much.drcaded disease has been re-
moved oy the recent heavy rains
The head OF Ching Ting Ping tho
leader OF the recent Instruction in
the southern part OF chi Li China.
who was recently captured at Honan.
has been exhibited 20 the scenes OF
its owners exploits as "a warning
The pocket typewriter is the very
latest device 10 lesson tho task Of
newspaper mon detectives ana anv
and all persons who need 90 take notes
en- any subject when the use of pencil
and paper woIid be- an Inconvenience.
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