Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-07-22
CURRENT TOPICS.

ent of schools $4,000 a year
Marconi is stated to be working at
portable wireless telephone.
Twenty-Five million eggs were ex-
ported from Asia Minor in 1901.
The crystal palace tower at the St.
Louis fair will be 1850 feet high
After six years the bubonic plague
In India shows little. If any. abate-
ment.
There were "a deaths from plague
In Hong-lIong for the week ending
June g.
The twenty-seven railway bridges
in the Uganda (Africa) road are
American.
The Semitic building at Harvard,
which has about $S0. 1000. will be open
ed this month.
Adm. Sir Harry Koppel the father
of the British feet" began his ninety.
fifth year last Sunday.
Typhus has appeared among the cat
tie of Egypt, and the epidemic threat
ems 10 become serious
The Eskimos now have their own
translation of the Bible, which has ia
ken $50 years 20 complete.
Nearly 90 per cent. of the CONNER
cial failures reported each week are
failures for less than $4,000
A young daughter born to Princess
Nicholas Of Greece a few days ago
was given the name of Olga.
Artificial rubies are now successful
~ made up to twelve or fifteen carats
by M. Nernuel scientist of Paris.
The old town prison of Berlin has
been let 10 speculator, who in turn
has let the cells as living apartments.
BY vote of 22O to 40 the French
senate has law making the length Of
military service in France two years
instead Of three.
The value OF the exports from New
York in 1902 was $500 36l 600. or So
per cent of the whole of the exports
from Atlantic ports.
Thirty feet was the thickness of the
ice in which the Gauss, of the Ger
man Antarctic expedition. was held
at one point of the voyage.
IL is reported from Durham that there
Is considerable demand there for
good men in the bricklaying. plaster
ing and carpentering trades
The immense number of oak slaves
used in the wine districts of Spain all
come from the United States. aud
most of them from New Orleans.
For allowing his little boy to play
on the tramway lines while a car was
approaching a man named Rheinhart
was fined Ga at a Vienna court.
Rev. L. II. Wallace. pastor of the
Montoursville (Pa.) Methodist church.
has displaced his gentlemen ushers
with six young ladies in white.
There is an increasing demand for
money in all banks of the United
States. The banks on the Pacific
coast are doing an enormous business
Steel shark traps have been invent
ed by an American who is DESTROYS OF
killing sharks near Havana, so that
he may obtain the government re-
ward.
Workmen employed in the ware.
houses of JereZ (Spain) drink two
bottles of sherry day. and govt ard
rheumatism are said to be almost un.
known among them.
At the funeral of an aged Stockwel;
shoemaker named Bicton his tools aud
apron were borne ON his coffin. and.
one ON each side. his two tabby cats
dressed in mourning
IL is stated that the alien population
in Germany numbers 500 600 perons.
q whom nearly half are Austrian
citizen while not more than 10000
are British subjects.
A census recently completed shows
that there are 94SS2 children OF school
axe in Boston. and that ~ 5S2 of them
are pupils in the public schools and
1560l IN private schools.
BY The use of defraction disks form.
ed b. light waves around bright
points. such as particles of gold. a
microscope has been given a magnif;.
ing power of 10000 dameters.
The project of the Seine having pla.
carded Paris with posters describing
the terrible effects OF alcoholic and alb.
sinthc thinking. the cafe proprietors
each fed damage suit against hirn.
One thousand pounds was paid tho
other day in London by an orchid col.
Iector for plant that originally cost
the importer one shilling and sixpenco
It had developed uncommon blood.rcd
markings on white.
In the head Office Of the Suez canal.
at Port Said, is a model OF the canal
showing the exact position Of every
ship moving through it, 1t is thus
quite easy to arrange by telegraph
for vessels to pass one another.
dealer In wild animals i'm Ham.
burg collected and sold last year ~
lions. tigers and panthers. AZ bears.
52 elephants. G4 camels and dromeda.
Ties, 40 monkeys and large num-
Der OF smaller animals and birds.
Saved in an attempt TO drown him.
sell in the Rhine, near Basic. a the
atrical manager drew loaded pistol