Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-06-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

Basket making employs half mil.
lion persons in Germany.
Quebec (Canada) 1ongshoremen
are demanding higher wages.
Miss Florence Nightingale cele-
brated her SD birthday recently.
Windmills in Germany are now used
to produce power to drive electric mo-
tors.
Hamburg shipowners have raised the
price of steerage passage across the
Atlantic.
An electric pickpocket alarm has
been invented by a man in Manchester
England.
British railway capital has increased
during the last ten years by no less
than sS00,000.UJO.
While trying to loop the loop" in a
private establishment in Paris a youth
OF 10 broke his neck
1t is said that where one boy
smoked occasionally ten years ago 500
smoke regularly now
Failure of crops. disease among the
cattle and overpopulation are causing
acute distress in Java
Out of every 100 cases of drunken
ness brought before magistrates in
England 80 are women
Statistics show that there is a de.
crease in the quantity of iron ore pro.
duced in Great Britain.
A mountain of granite two miles
long and a half mile wide, has been
discovered in Oklahoma
The rural schools of New York aver
age p pupils each In each of 362S
schools there are ten or less.
Balloonists who assembled about 10
200 feet in Europe the other day found
a temperature of 81 degrees below
zero.
The Aichi Clock Co. in Japan EN-.
ploys 300 workmen, who make time
pieces which are both handsome and
cheap.
The oldest library in the world is
that of Nippur, from which cuneiform
tablets anedating Abraham have been
taken
Discoveries Of gold are said to have
been made in British and German ter
ritories along Lake Victoria Central
Africa.
Artemiev, a Russian electrician. has
invented a plable coat OF mail which
effectively protects against currents
of 10000 volts
Berlin has now a school for cab.
drivers, where the men will undergo an
examination prior to being permitted
to ply for hire
Fleeing from his creditors. an
italian workman. who had been pur.
sued to Switzerland, fell over a preci.
pice and was killed.
Official statistics show that there are
100000 children in Russia between
the ages of and IA receiving abso.
lutely no education.
Forty-four generals have withdrawn
from service in the German army since
January. The matter excites much
comment in the German press.
Miniature arrow heads cut out OF
Jasper and carnelan are found to this
day by Arabs in the desert sands and
strung in necklaces for charms.
The British government will buy all
the railroads in South Africa. the
colonies TO pay interest on the $685.
100000 necessary TO the purchase.
Jan Kubelik. the violinist. has had
the freedom of the city Of Debreczin
conferred on him as a preliminary to
becoming naturalized Hungarian.
A southern sea elephant. captured
by whaling vessel on an island in the
Antarctic circle. has been received by
the National Museum at Washington.
In Graz the capital Of Syria. the
butchers having raised the price of
beef they were compelled by the au.
thorities 10 revert to the former rates
The new Minnesota capitol building
which Is soon 10 be completed al 4
cost q $4,000 600. will be one Of the
most sumptuous public buildings in
the world
The Christian population OF India
including Europeans. does not number
100000. while the Moslem contingent
has increased in 20 years by 10000.
600 souls
The last census gave the value OF
poultry raised in the United States
during the year 1899 as S13G. Sg1.877;
Of eggs produced in the same year.
S144,2SG15S.
1t is understood that w. K Wander.
bit has definitely decided 10 take an
active part in American racing and
that he is planning a stable OF splendid
proportions for 1904
w. + Hursey, an expert piano tuner
Of GAINESVILLE, Wis. has been blind
from his infancy He Is one OF the
best judges Of a piano in the west.
AID Is besides, an accomplished mu.
sician
The whole northern part OF Asia
Minor, according TO the treaty between
Russia and Turkey, Is now placed un.
Der such conditions that Russian CAM.
taIists have the area open 20 them TO
the exclusion Of foreign enterprises.
The number OF deaths each year in
London was $50 years ago. 81 per