Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-06-10
CURRENT TOPICS.

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Minneapolis is the second largest
Scandinavian city.
The valley OF the Amazon still re.
mains unexplored.
Fully $500 persons commit suicide
in Russia every year.
There are nearly go different re-
hglons in the United Kingdom.
or the American males over 40 years
of age 500 per cent are married.
Theatrical stage employees have 60
local unions and more than 1000 mem.
bers.
Twelve million pounds is the record
loss by fire for a year in the British
Isles.
The fence around the st. Louis ex-
position grounds will be six miles
long
The United States weather bureau
employs 400 trained observers at $50
stations.
Mexico raises $4,000 bales Of the
100000 bales of cotton used each year
In that country.
One factory at St Etienne. France.
made last year 269 cannon to be used
against hail storms.
Out Of a total of 1884. 1878 Con-
gregatiOnal ministers in England and
Wales are teetotalers.
Mixed elementary classes of boys
and girls are to be tried at one Of the
large schools at Vienna.
Railway communication has been in.
terrupted and great damage caused by
Hoods in Russian Turkestan.
Manchuria rivals Oregon in fertility.
TIMBER and climate. and has abundance
oil gold, silver, iron and coal
Within three and one-half years So
trusts have been formed. having an
aggregate capital OF s4,31s .OO5 .64s.
One hundred and sixteen different
varieties of tulip are under cultiva-
ton in Lincolnshire bulb growers
garden.
More work is put upon naval guns
In target practice each quarter than
they were required to stand during the
Spanish war.
BY means OF excellent vessels AMI
cheap fares the Germans are RAPIDLY
increasing their tourist traffic in the
Mediterranean
SeVenty-nine per cent. of the popu-
lation of the United States were born
within the state or territory of their
present residence
Over million and a half tons of
sugar was imported into this country
last year, about two-thirds of il be-
ing already refined.
For perjury committed in a divorce
case German officer. Lieut.. Baron
Won Loew. has been sentenced TO IS
months penal servitude.
When a lemon is large enough to fll
a test ring two and five-sixteenths of
an inch inside it is picked. and if it is
stu green it is stored until it ripens.
For sweeping the streets in Bendigo.
Australia. whore much expense is
caused by people who scrape the road
for the sake Of the gold dust obtain
able. man has been fined .. shillngs.
Charles Stevens. secretary Of the
Anti-VaccinatiOn League Of Minneapo.
lis. died from smallpox He had fire.
quently denounced vaccination as in
eficacious and a barbarOus practice
Transatlantic voyagers complain OF
distrcssf'il lack OF ethereal mildnees
sn their ocean experiences this spring.
They have been tossed about bv
storms and chilled by professions Of
iccbergs.
Lord Balfour. OF Burleigh. presided
over meeting Of Scotsmen in Lon.
don tho other day. at which il was de
cided 10 raise by subscription Queen
Victoria Memorial School" for the sons
OF Scottish sailors and soldiers.
Two young Russians ARISEN AMI
Paul Draginow. have. according 10 a
dispatch from St Petersburg wager.
ed c2.0OO that they will accomplish
the journey around the world on the
back Of a camel within one wear from
starting.
Through Zenas Crane. a brother ami
business partner Of ex Gov. Crane o;
Massachusetts. the city Of PIainfeld
Mass. is indebted for the possession
Of what IS probably the largest and
finest museum Of natural history AMI
art TO be found in any town Of IFS size
in the country.
The recent censuses q Scotland
and Ireland show them TO be almost
equal in population. each having but
few more people than the state OF
Ohio.
II is said that Or Conan Doyle will
bring back Sherlock Holmes and *.
plain his miraculous escape from
death in that awful struggle on the
Reichenbach fall
The baby born in 1903 has three
times a better chance OF living through
its first year and FIVE times a better
chance Of living TO be FIVE years old
than IL would have had a dozen years
ago.