Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-04-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

bibits TO st. Louis.
The average watch requires now but
IL hours to make it.
The electric motor Is fast displacing
the leather belt in factories.
Our principal exports to Korea are
electrical appliances and idols.
The German government operates
1900 telephone central stations.
We sell to the Chinese about SIS.
oOO,UOO year more than we buy from
them.
Vienna is contemplating the mu.
nicipalization of the business of I'M
certakers.
Herr Krupps income. the largest
ever known in Germany, was S4.7GO.-
600 year.
There are more millionaires and
more paupers in Moscow than in the
whole of England
Canadians in London are forming n
social society similar to that OF the
Americans in London
The ST. James district of London
although but seven.tenths OF n square
mile, has All policemen.
The saloon is now prohibited in but
-FOUR states-Maine. New Hampshire.
Kansas and North Dakota.
Bona. in the Congo Free State. has
road nearly $50 miles long. which
is practicable for automobiles.
Since the recent great horseflesh
dinner in Berlin the business of the
horse butchers has quadrupled.
During the past year SCI persons
t,.l
OF 200 over the previous year
When nine inches of snow falls in
new York it costs the municipal treas
ury 100000 to have it removed.
Within 20 years the south has in
creased its railway mileage 1G2 per
cent. and its exports 50 per cent.
In New Zealand a government sub
sldy is given the Salvation Army to
prevent suffering among the needy.
In Johannesburg a white League"
has been formed to oppose the i'm.
portation of any labor except white.
Printed in English and devoted IN
commerce, new daily newspaper is
about to be issued in st. Petersburg
For competition among schools the
KING has presented a swimming chal-
ienge cup to the Life Saving society.
During 1902 the lifeboats of the Row.
al National Lifeboat institution were
launched 2S9 times and saved 456 lives
The banks advance at Monte Carlo
over the player is less than 3 per
cent. and it wins about SO $50 600 per
annum
Antonio Campano. the terrible Cor
sican, three times a jalbreaker. has
been forced by starvation to surrender
in Paris.
Seven feet ten inches is the height
OF young Russian who has just visit.
eu members OF the Berlin Anthropo-
logical society.
King Edward has been restricted by
ms physicians to five cigars a day. He
mas been an inveterate smoker almost
since his boyhood.
Judge Dunno, OF Chicago, issued an
injunction the other day to restrain
young wife from pulling her aged
husbands whiskers.
All the South African governments
except German Southwest Africa
nave now adopted a uniform time two
hours ahead OF Greenwich.
The German empress gave 176 %.
male servants the golden Nervants'
cross last year for having remained
40 years in the same family.
There are now on view at the Brit.
ish museum the native ornaments col.
lected by the prince and princess of
Wales on their colonial tour.
The editor Of a weekly newspaper
IN Australia offers himself as a prize
TO the woman who writes the best
essay on the duties OF wife.
Nellie Benson. the first Negro WON.
an TO receive certificate from the
Virginia State Board OF Pharmacy
passed the examination recently.
The Grecian government has or
dered its annual supply OF refined pc.
troleum, 100000 gallons in ten.gal.
ion cans, from the United States.
Some 300 Roman bronze coins
struck between the year 337 A. d. and
$50 A. d.. and several Of them gilded
have been unearthed at Croydon Eng
or the foreign-born population OF
Cleveland 30 per cent is German. II
per cent Bohemian. 10 per cent. Irish
per cent. Hungarian and G per cent
Canadian.
It Is calculated by an engineer that
e5O.OOO000 tons Of coal are used an.
nually throughout the world or this
amount 148.000.O0O are burnt in the
United States.
On account Of the thieving propensf.
ties Of the pale face" the Indians have
abandoned their old burial custom Of
depositlng valuables belonging 10 the
deceased with the corpse.
Mrs. King. Of Corpus Christi. Tex.
owns more land than any other won
an In this country. perhaps I'm tho
world. Her holdings are not less than
100000 acres
Fashionable dogs in Paris. which for
some time have worn overcoats with