Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1902-03-26
CURRENT TOPICS.

Hotel and restaurant employees have
organized at Birmingham. Ala.
Arkansas will erect the first state
building at the St. Louis Worlds fair.
metropolitan police OF London look
after $500 miles OF roads and streets.
Polo is probably the Oldest OF ath-
Ietc sports. 1t has been traced to coo
u. c.
John ID. Rockefeller has been giving
money to Washington and Lee uni
versity.
The city government of De Soto.
Mo, has agreed to hire none but
union men.
The two tunnels most needed in
Europe now are for the Caucasus and
the Pyrenees.
Rome is to be electrically lighted
with power from the Marmore Falls.
40 miles away.
Prince George of Prussia. &c years
old, is the Oldest member of the house
of Hohenzollern
After two years of effort the work
ers in the paper mills at Lockport. n.
Y, are 10 organize
Apache chief. Geronimo is the cul-
ture of watermelons
dromedary race between Biskra
and Tagurta. Algeria, is being ar
ranged. The distance to be covered is
40 miles.
Thirty steel manufacturers of Great
Britain are said to be planning a com
bination. The capital is said to be
100000 600.
Maine has two citizen who voted for
Andrew Jackson in 1S32-W. II. CHS
ham of Augusta, and Capt. Joshua
Moulton. OF Scarboro.
In Java there is an orchid all the
flowers of which open at once. as if
ly the stroke of a fairy wand, and they
also will wither together
The agricultural department now re-
quires a larger appropriation for its
administration than any other depart
ment, except the treasury
By the census of 1900 only two
states had more foreign-born than ma
tive-born male residents of voting age
Minnesota and South Dakota.
The total exports of animals and
their products during last year were
In value S250,0O0 900. not including
the mules sent TO South Africa.
An organization has been formed in
New York to secure funds for further
ing education in the south. They al.
ready have $1,00000O at their disposal.
Prof. Alexander Kerr of the Greek
department of the University of Wis
consin, has taught the Greek Ian
guage in that institution for 81 years.
movement is on foot in Canada to
supply Canadian coal instead OF
Welsh or Pocahontas to the troopships
which are to convey the new Canadian
contingent to South Africa.
The duke of Marlborough is he
lieved to be the possessor of the cost.
lest painting in the world. RaphaeTs
Blenheim Madonna painted in 1907
and now valued at S35O.OOO.
John II. Wessling. who died in Gin
cinnati, made and exhibited the first
arc lamp operated in the United
states, taking the first medal award
ed at the Cincinnati exposition in 1874.
group OF American capitalists have
proposed to the Paris municipality
tsays the Vie Financiere) to build gas
works for the city and supply the IL
Iuminant at prices varying from I'd
TO / I'D per cubic yard.
Col. John Mosby. the leader of one
OF the most important confederate
cavalry commands during the civil
was, is in government service in Col.
orado, charged with preventing the
private Enclosure of public lands.
Miss Edith +. Ogen. of St. Paul.
Mimi, has designed the tablet Of
bronze. made from a Spanish cannon
which will be placed on the steam.
ship st. Paul to record her services
during the Spanish-American war.
Residents OF certain New Jersey
counties object to a legislative appro.
prlaIon 70 eXtcrminate mosquitoes. on
the ground that the bite of certain
breed is valuable antldote to rbeuma.
tism with which the natives suffer.
In 1900 there were in the United
states By boiler explosions by which
zb8 persons were killed and 500 wound
cd. In Great Britain. during the same
period, only "a persons we're killed
and 50 wounded by boiler explosions
Ristori says that the married life
Of herself and her late husband the
Marquis Del Grillo. was a living con
tradiction OF the saying that no mar.
rage in the profession is happy un
less both husband and wife belong to-
the stage
Postmaster r. T.. Carter of Orange
Court House. Va. was one of Mosbv.s
men who was reported 10 have been
kiIIed at Front Royal during the civil
war and his name appears ON the
monument at that place in honor of
the dead confederate.
Many japanese women are under
going the slight surgical operation me-.
cessary 20 straightcn the slant of the
eyelid, which distinguishes them so
Enthusiastically from Caucasian women
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