Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-09-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

"Sio SiSmateu III france ihSt year.
In the city of New York there are
only 737,47 white persons born OF ma.
tive parents.
The ministry Is the only one Of the
learned professions that is not now
over-crowded.
japan imported last year $1,474 900
worth OF Watches four-fifths of them
from Switzerland
For ten years the average yield Of
corn in Iowa has been approximately
80 bushels to the acre.
Rome has water supply OF zoo, 000,.
600 gallons a day. London only 160,-
100000 and Paris 10000 900.
tumbler combination lock for post
Office boxes has been invented for
those prone to lose their keys.
During the last fiscal year one In
every 4O1 railway employees was
killed. and one in every "a injured
Fifty-two minutes was the time talk.
en- between Dover and Calais by the
new turbine steamer Queen recently.
Bangor CMe.) man has two tons OF
honey for the market this year. He
has 81 colonies of busy bees working
for him.
In Servia there Is a soldier for ev
cry % inhabitants: in the United
States there is one for every 300 in.
habitants.
SeVenty-seven per cent. OF the wom-
en- and but 62 per cent of the men TAX.
Ing the civil service examination are
able to pass 1t.
Connecticut claims more success
than ever this year in raising shade
grown tobacco from Cuban. Sumatra
and Florida seed.
Abraham Lincoln, the oldest male
survivor OF the Lincolns from whom
descended the president is living at
Lacy Springs. Va.
In Persia, India and China the lower
classes still live, as a rule. together
with their animals in the same dark
and unventilated huts.
In Chicago and New York, according
TO recent statistics, pneumonia las
now superseded pulmonary tuberculo-
Sis as the cause of the greatest NOR.
tally.
Motor caTs-attention. terrible
curve'-was the notice posted by
French mayor wishing to prevent mo-
tor cars from going at a high speed
through his village
Five hundred farmers around Rock.
well. Ia, formed a trust with $4,000
capital for marketing their products.
Last year at an expense of 81. 900 they
did business of s620,O00 without los
ing a dollar
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though they consume twice as much
sugar as the French and Germans.
have much better teeth. The Ameri.
can dentist, however, ranks first in all
countries.
Tie preserving plants are now moved
on cars to where the ties are delivered
10 the railway. In retorts holding 500
ties each the sap is forced from tho
pores in the ties and salt solution put
in its stead.
From the professional schools of the
United States there were graduated
last year: In theology. .5S5: in law.
1856; in medicine, SAP; in dentistry.
2,311; in pharmacy, 1873; in yeter-
mary medicine, 109
O-Ume Hanai, a japanese woman
who has just served a 16-year sen.
tence. for murder. has gone on the
stage at Osaka for the purpose of Civ.
ing her earnings to a fund for the
construction of a temple
In England alone the volume Of co.
operative business has grown in the
last 40 years, more than 40 times as
fast as England's international trade:
100 times as fast as her manufactures
and 100 times as fast as the popula
ton.
Partisan street lamps will i'm future
bear various colored signs. A green
hg1t viii indicate a tramway stopping
place. blue fire station. red with
white inscriptions the police offices
ana the Geneva red cross an atnbu
lance station.
Municipal development Of water
gas. electricity. street railways. mar
kets. baths and cemeteries in Noting
ham, England. has showed an average
annual net profit Of Si5S 900 for the
last four years. The money is applied
TO the reduction Of taxes.
Mrs J.. s. Fox. Of Chetopa Kan. Is
exhibiting 2 peculiar chicken. II has
two wings where they should he. and
Two more at the extreme end OF its
body. II also has four legs The front
half OF the chicken is plymouth rocL and
the rear half buff cochin
The duckhouse OF the barge Vclun.
teer That foundered OF Na-agareett
was seen the otaer evening drifting
OF the lifesaying station. and some OF
the station crew put of in a small
boat 70 inspect it and found upon itq
roof q I've cat. which they took soro
Kansas has seven living ex.go, orn.
ors. One has a wel1paying lob or tho
Dawes commission. one has gone into
insurance. one has an agency for an
ALASKAN immigration concern orc IS
piactiCing law. one has turned bis at.
tentIon to banking and two ere farm.