Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-07-29
CURRENT TOPICS.


Siemens. at Berlin in 1879.
Prof. c. F. Mueller. a brilliant Latin
scholar. has just died at Breslau.
King Edward speaks German and
French almost as well as English.
Germany sells the United States
nearly SS.000,0O0 worth OF beet sugar
a year.
Windmills in Germany are now used
to produce power to drive electric
motors.
At Madras a road has been expert
mentally treated with petroleum to
lay the dust
set of six Chippendale mahogany
chairs, with open backs, fetched e2S3
in London recently.
Lord Cromer has sent to Mai. Cough.
on service in Somaliland. a magnif-
cent riding camel As present
The Mysore government mas decided
to abolish the district Jail of Shimago
owing to paucity or convicts.
The imports into the United States
exceeded l.0000O0,O0O in the IL
months ending with March, 1903
The Norwegian local boards have
prohibited motor driving on nearly all
the roads throughout the country
Summer farming schools for town
boys are to be opened near Broolllyn
and the lads will be taught vegetable
cultivation
Owing to the increase of madness
among dogs in Vienna and South Aus.
tria, all exhibitions of dogs and cats
are prohibited.
Prof. Dunbar, of Hamburg. claims to
have discovered the poison in the pol
len OF flowers which causes hay fever.
and also its antidote
pension has just been granted to
Thomas b. Howard. of Houston. Tex.
Tor services in the Seminole Indian
war, in 1885 and 1886.
Wearing monocles. the latest fashion
for ladies, a craze recently started in
Paris by ladies of the Servian colony.
is extending 10 London.
Enormous swarms OF locusts have
appeared in the neighborhood of
Szolnok, Hungary, and have laid the
country waste for miles.
Nearly all the safety matches which
are safe against friction on sandpaper.
stone, wood or brick ignite readily
from a quick rub on glass.
During the week of the Servian
tragedy the weekly average of 100 1000
words at the central telegra ph office.
Vienna, was almost trebled
A dimes worth of flank beef fur.
nishes .2S4 pound of sustenance. but
the same value in tenderloin furnishes
less than one-fourth as much.
A London judge ruled that the cost
OF a Photograph ordered by a wife
without the express authority of her
husband could not he recovered
The average Australian eats twice
as much meat as an Englishmen.
three times as much as a FrencLman
and four and a half times as much as
a German.
The st. Louis fair appropriations in
the states and territories amount to
$6,107 500, or $7O7 1863 more than the
total from similar sources at the Chi;
cago exposition.
Mr.. Kearley stated in the house OF
comm Ons that the adulteration of milk
In London is so great that the people
OF the metropolis pay the milkmen
100000 for water
The first death for eight months has
just occurred in the village of Stan.
wick. Among the 500 inhabitants
there are 13 whose collective ages
number 1,Os6 years.
When a British ambassador is an.
pointed to France he is allowed 500.
600 for outfit in the case of promo.
tion $4,000 is allowed, and in the
case of transfer $4,000.
After having attempted TO commit
suicide by hanging. a Viennese girl
soaked her clothes in alcohol and set
fire to herself She died in a hospital
the other day from the effects of the
burns
The Gjoa, with the magnetic polar
expedition. has sailed for Greenland
and will attempt TO pass north of the
American continent to Behring strait.
Tnis Will take the party near the
North pole.
British India buys abroad $3.50 zoe
600 worth year. Of which the United
States supplies s3.772.OOO. or about
one-ninetieth. The largest item from
the United States is $1,000, 900 worth
of kerosine oil
Ten years ago cents we're little used
In California and the south. and were
practically unknown in Nevada. wy
oming and Arizona but to-day t1ey
circulate everywhere for the benefit
OF the slot machines.
The largest factory Of chemicals I'm
the world is said to be tho anillne and
soda establishment Of Baden The
works employ 148 scientific chemist
% technical engineers. 3O5 clerks and
inore than 5000 workingmen.
The life Of dime is only four or
FIVE years. because it changes hands
ten times while a halfdollar Is moved
once from one persons pocket into the
Till Of another.