Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-03-11
CURRENT TOPICS.

p
Is estimated at % 600 900.
Paper quilts are extensively used
abroad by the poorer classes.
Nearly one-third of our immigrants
are now from southern Italy.
Mrs. l.. Goodman, the Oldest living
woman artist, Is 90. She has painted
upward of 1.2OO portraits
Herbert Spencer has for years turn
ed out an average OF $50 words OF re-
Vised manuscript per day.
Lord Methuen is still troubled by
the serious wound he sustained in his
last fight in the Transvaal
The German post office department
has ordered in the United States TO-
600 hand fire extinguishers.
If the earth were equally divided
among its inhabitants each persons
share would be about 23% acres.
One can not survive in an atmos.
phere containing more than one part
OF carbonic acid gas to 233 OF air.
Blankets were first made by Blanket
brothers. at Bristol. England. about the
middle OF the thirteenth century.
Within 20 years the South has in
creased its railway mileage 1872 per
cent. and its exports 95 per cent.
Latest returns show that the secur-
ties held by the French Government
Savings bank amount to G29 600 900.
One OF the youngest looking men in
the English house of commons is Sir
John Gorst. who is about 20 years old.
The mechanical force of the sound
comets would equal but one horse
power.
The standing timber of Canada
equals that of the continent Of Europe
and is nearly double that of the Uni
ted States.
Personally fitted dog blankets of
sealskin can now be had for s5e each
in New York, if made without handker-
chief pocket
The United States and Great Britain
together handle more letters and pert
odicals than all the rest OF the world
put together
Considerably more than 100 900 tons
Of butter are made annually in the
British isles. and from 10000 to 49,
900 tons of cheese.
That the gas engine. large or small.
IS developed to an efficiency at which
IT can rival the steam engine in relia-
biity is now admitted
A pressure recorder attached to the
row lock OF the racing shell will here
after be used to determine the work
done by each oarsman
1t is suggested in France that in
crease of population be encouraged by
giving government positions only to
men having large families
Justice Horatio Rogers, who has
just resigned from the supreme court
of Rhode Island has presented his en-
tire law library TO the state
Archbishop James Il. Quigley will
he installed archbishop of Chicago
March 10. He celebrated his leave
taking mass in Buffalo March 2.
Taking tne brain as the criterion.
Prof. Wilder, Of Cornell. finds that the
ourang-outang ranks next 10 man. and
not the gorilla. as heretofore taught
The navy which gives England the
supremacy OF the seas costs 1856. 600.
600 a year or "a little more than the
United States pays a year in pensions
James G. Stewart. who was Abra-
ham Lincolns official photographer. &C.
still living in Bloomington. ILL.,. and
owns one OF tho largest collections Of
Lincoln photographs
Rev George Hughes. Of Orange. Y.
J. preached a sermon on his SOth
birthday in the Franklin street Meth.
odist church. where he delivered his
first sermon so years ago
Police superintendent Gee Of Man
chester, Tngland. who died recently.
had a hobby for collecting volumes OF
verse and prose written by unedu.
Gated and illiterate authors
Or. Sachs. Vienna ocuist has in.
vented an apparatus by which the
whole dark inner part Of the eye can
be Illuminated The invention marks
great advance in science
Leopold Strouse. who has made
many gifts 10 JOINS Hopkins univer.
city. has just presented that inet'tu.
ton with a rare library of Semitic ne.
erature. consisting of 100 volumes.
Railway mileage in the United
States has passed tho 200 900 mark
which is considerable more than two.
ffths Of the entire railway mileage ~
the world
The Hermitage. the old home Of
Gen. Andrew Jackson near Nashville
Tenn. is 10 be restored 10 its condi.
ton at the time Of the generals death
by the Ladies' Hermitage association.
Kitasato a japanese microscopic.
fret showed that the pin-shaped M.
cTobe Of lock-jaw lives in the earth. In
order that II may multiply aud poison
the blood It must be deep In gnun1
80 that air does not reach st.