Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-02-04
CURRENT TOPICS.

me CHll'I states imports mil
lien Holsters year
Detached bits of human skin live
from two to ten days
An elevated railroad is 10 connect
st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Hot cakes and cider are the usual
1are at Christmas eve in Devonshire.
The average age OF the men in the
British navy is between &c and q
years.
The sale of postage stamps in the
United Kingdom amounts to 377 800
600 yearly.
Samuel Smiles. the author has just
celebrated his 90th birthday. He is
still in fair health.
An Englishman has invented
brick-laying machine which lays and
mortars the bricks
Brussels has church clock wound
by atmospheric expansion induced by
the heat of the sun.
In Finland reindeer are worth only
about $3.50 a head. reindeer can
travel about $50 miles a day.
If the earth were equally divided
among its inhabitants each persons
share would be about 23rL acres.
For the first time since the Reforma-
ton a peal of bells was rung i'm
Catholic church in Londonderry last
Christmas day.
Every native and naturalized citizen
in Denmark over GO years old and un-
able to support himself or family re-
ceives pension varying from 500
to $3.50 per month.
Australia could do with 300. 900 Brit
ish wives Canada with 10000 and
the Cape with 10000. There are said
to be nearly 100000 too many women
in the British isles.
Miss Kate Grindrod. a fullbloodcd
Nyandotte Indian. who was educated
ut the Carlisle Indian school. is one
Of the most successful professional
nurses in Philadelphia.
Jacob Judy. of Bloomington III. en-.
joys the distinction of having voted
for 90 presidents of the United States.
His first vote was cast for John Quin-
cy Adams. in 1924. He is 90 years old
NJ. Galacobini discovered a comet "A
few nights since from the observatory
of Nice. France. II is on a straight
line between the stars Sirius and
PrOcyon, near the constellation of Or
lon.
Colorado's building at the Worlds
Fair will undoubtedly be made a per
manent structure. and will remain as
monument to the enterprise as well
as the resources of the centennial
state
DIR. Gustav a. Andreen. president of
Augustana college. at Rock Island H..
has sailed for Sweden. where he goes
to ACCEPT a $4,000 gift from Swedish
educators and business men to Angus
tana college.
Silk is obtained from the shell fish
known as the pima which is found in
the Mediterranean This shell fish
has the power Of spinning a viscid silk
which in Sicily is made into a regular
and very handsome fabric.
The highest three mountains in the
United States. not including Alaska
are Mt. Whitney. California. 1888
feet; Blanca Peak. Colorado. 144G4
feet. and Cerro Blanco New Mexico
14,2G9 feet. II is claimed that NJ
Rainier. Washington, is 1880 feet high
DR. Leuriraux. a Brussels physician
announces the success Of his serum
for the cure Of whooping cough. The
serum is injected under the skin on
the abdomen. and a cure is performed
in ten days. whereas the disease runs
six TO eight weeks
Taxes are paid on $4,000 dogs in
Berlin In addition 10 this number
there are 21G3 watchdoRs. 221 dogs
belonging TO blind and deaf peoplo
2.G52 dogs used for drawing small
carts and 11S belonging TO the kaiser
or TO members Of foreign embassies.
Since 1897 the government Of Fin.
land has annually distributed prizos
for the best products in bellies lettres.
The recipients of the prizes for 1902
IRE Dr. Lclo. who got about $500
1o- an historic drama. Malta TaIoia
MADAME Mikhcla) who got 1926 for n
novel; =. Igcn@rcn $500 for lyrics
and r Pakhola. $3.50 for comedy.
J.. II. Lodcr. a student en- the Colurn.
bia university. has broken the inter.
collegiate record for gripping Nc.
cording to Or Sargents system he
made a total of 52&h pounds I'm the
TT. breaking tho former record by
more than 80 pound. He is a student
in the school 81 rines.
Irwin Cline. AGED f3 years. was
graduated from tho Ashley Ohio high
school. at the head Of mis- class. win.
mig me tito Of Little Giant" He
has also received free scholarship
at the Wesleyan university. At Della.
ware. Ohio. for being tho youngest
high school graduate In the stata