Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-03-25
CURRENT TOPICS.


sumption annually
The five volcanoes active last year
destroyed 10000 lives
A corn on the toe OF a Philadelphia
man caused his death.
The proposed monument to Dante in
Rome will cost 5000 900.
Providence labor unions are pro-
1ecting new labor temple.
The flint and bottle blowers unions
may be consolidated within the next
year.
Marconi was born in Bologna. but
Florence may claim his schoolboy
years.
Mr.. Reginald De Koven announces
that his new opera is nearly com
pleted.
Great Britain has 1854 900 domes-
tic servants earning G6S. 100000 per
annum.
Last year is claimed TO have been
the most prosperous ever enjoyed in
Canada.
Welsh miners desire to contest nine
boroughs at the next general election
in Wales.
Increased employment is reported
from most departments of the iron in
dustry in Germany.
The hop growers of the Pacific coast
predict that next years crop will be
the largest on record.
At a recent election held at Lindsay
Ont. the trade unionists elected their
candidate for mayor and seven al
dermen.
The London CEng) Society of Com.
positors is carefully considering n
\ pian OF superannuation and provident
\Senefts.
japanese newspaper asserts that
lt were not for educational works
Ipanese publishers would be virtu
ally without occupation.
twelve thousand men are employed
In the diamond cutting and polishing
industry at Amsterdam. Holland The
wages are from 81 to $50 a week.
a Kansas legislator has prepared a
Dill providing that the state shall en-.
gage in the printing of newspapers
1or free distribution among the people.
An assistant in the congressional II
brary finds that 2.2OO books therein
were written by colored persons. The
au'hors are nearly all mulattoes. pure
FLOODED Negroes having written very
little.
Another of the "poverty.stricken'
old women who have been selling ma
pers In the city hall park-Mrs. Der.
ina kraft-is dead In her rooms
were found bank books showing Sc 600
on deposit
MI McGregor, chief engineer of the
steamer Mackinnon. on Lake Veto.
ria Nyanza. has crossed the equator
over 100 times in two years. The line
OF the equator runs across the north
ern portion Of the lake.
At the present day many cotton
mills are working in Bombay and
more will soon be started. Already the
entire yarn supply OF India. and TO
some extent OF China and Japan. is
furnished by the Bombay mills.
Elias Baudinot. a trustee of Prince
ton college during the revolution
presided over the sessions of the con.
tinental congress held there. A pro.
ME tablet OF him is to be placed in old
Nassau hall by his descendants
AT the present day. on the best an.
thority. there are 100000 600 Mussul.
mans in the world The Christian
population is put at Az 900 900 but
the increase Of Islam is more randi
man that OF its sister religion.
BY new Dutch process it is claim.
ed that moist hide can be turned
into leather ready for the saddIer's
and shoemaker's use in from two to
three days. while by following the
usual method OF preparation it takes
about six months
In the automatic apparatus for
making altitude and temperature
tracings in balloons sent above to
heights in which ink would be frozen.
Professor Ossman has invented a pen
which writes red with saltpeter inl,
on lampblacked paper
Lord Anglesey is credited with he.
Ing the pioneer Of the idea OF scented
motor car. Thus when ne goes abroad
on his car instead OF the fumes Of the
gasoline or some other noxious odor
being left in his train there is a fra.
GRANGE Of eau de cologne.
Melbourne juror refused TO serve
on the ground that he had lust got
work after three months idIeness. and
would lose II again if he failed 10 put
IN an appearance. The Judge frown-
Cd fined the offending juryman a pen
ny. and paid the coin himself
diet kitchen is about TO be estab.
Iished in Washington under the direc.
ton Of woman. Physicians will send
IN their directions for meals TO be
supplied to their patients. just as they
furnish prescriptions for medicines to
be filled by the druggists. The food
VIII be sent out in sterilized dishes.
Harry y. Tierneye. Of St Joseph
Mo, student AT Kenrick seminary.
st Louis. recently won the prize I'm