Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-01-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

railway is $401 ZOO. 900.
In the United States 10000 locomo.
tives haul 1900 900 cars.
A ton of coal was shipped to Man
chester, N. H., by express.
The first electric railway was that
OF Siemens of Berlin in 1879.
The Rock Island Railroad company
has started to build a road to the Pa
cific
Importation OF Negroes from the
United States has been suggested as a
solution OF the labor problem in Ha-
wall
1t is reported that the Egyptian cot
ton crop for 1902 can not be estimated
over 1.13S,500 bales of 500 pounds
each.
Louis w. Thronburg. of Ottumwa
Ia, is the oldest settler in that state,
and his wife was the first white child
born in Iowa.
In Siberia a winter rainbow some.
times lasts almost all the day. II is
caused by fine particles of snow sus-
pended in the air
The yield of apples in the province
of Ontario (Canada) for 1902 was 49,
1852 bushels from 1924 $50 trees OF
bearing age; average yield per tree
Csc bushels.
Sir Henry Campbell annerman is
as saying regarding the British
;: 1T is the essential policy OF
2untry to consolidate intimacy
~ ge- friendship with the
IN Mather. who died in Bos.
rs. was the author of 3S2
me Of them being OF huge di-
The most bulky of his
Contained seven large folio vol
He died at the age of 65.
On Pierre du Coubertin and the
lger Of the international Olympian
les Of 1904 have expressed a will
mess to assent to the proposed
|ansfer Of the games from Chicago. az
D6riginally intended. to ST Louis.
English manufacturers noses are
very much out OF joint just now over
The discovery that more than $1,000
600 worth of American equipment is in
use in the construction of the tram
ways in Adelaide. South Australia
The sum of $4,000 was collected by
the Hanover student societies fcr the
erection OF statue of Bismarck. The
project has had to be abandoned for
the present. however oJDing to the fail
rre of the bank in which the money
vas deposited.
lbcen's works are now being trans
lated into Japanese for the first time.
and those that have been published so
far. "A Dolls House" AN Enemy of
the People" and Peer Gynt." are
matiE great impression upon
Oriental minds
the yield of tobacco in the province
Of Ontario in 1902 was 3O79.717
pounds. against 3.113.5 pounds in
1901. The area in 1902 was 2.971
acres, as compared with 1871 acres in
1896. when the crop amounted to TO-.
560,59O pounds.
There is one United States mail
carrier who is paid $35 600 year by
Uncle Sam. He carries mail between
Eagle and Valery, in Alaska. Ala mics
and. although his experiences are hair.
raising. he thinks well enough of his
job 10 renew the contract.
Cigarmakers' unions during the past
year were involved in 254 difficulties.
the most OF which were for an in.
crease in wages. All told. 1892 mem
hers were involved. or these 1856 prov.
ed successful; 81 were compromised;
~ were lost and seven are still pend
ing
Greater than in any year previous
in the history Of the port of New
York. the number Of cabin passengers
landed during 1902 by the steamship
lines reached the grand total Of 1879
S4S. This is II. 705 more than the pre-.
ceding year and almost 1000 more
than in 1901, when the Paris exposi.
fion was the magnet that drew many
10 the other side.
Glass is generally supposed 10 be
out Of reach Of attack bv animal or
vegetable agents. but peculiar affec.
ton has appeared in the glass win.
dows Of York cathedral England. The
glass has become dull and fragile and
filed with holes. Windows that have
been in place for six or seven hundred
years have lately been removed in or.
der to arrest this curious form OF do.
ferioration.
John ID. Rockefeller IS actively ac.
land ir the vicinity Of his New
York home. lie now has 1000 acres
extending from North Tarrytown 10
Fats View and Hawthorne He in.
tends laying out large parks and beau.
tifuI roads all through this land. and
he is 20 install an electric light plaut
90 light his estate IIc will also build
a castle on the hill
The statue Of Bishop Phillips
brooks. winch Is TO stand in the angle
formed By thc chapel and north tran.
sept of Trinity church Boston. is
nearly completed
Samuel Smiles. tho author. has Just