Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-07-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

ruHy E,oVO persons commit suicide
In Russia every year.
There are four millionaires in Bri.
tRin to one in France.
Blackpool claims to be the best
lighted town in England
The first issue Of medals to British
troops was in 1643 by Charles 1.
There are 10000 persons in the mu.
nicipal service in New York city.
Thirteen new theaters to cost
$S,OOO,OOO are building in New York
City.
Employing 10000 men Japanese
mine produces 100000 pounds of cop.
per monthly.
For sending out milk in churns not
properly cleansed two Dublin dairymen
have been fined.
Madison Square Garden paid ex-
penses last year for the first time
since it was built.
In their annual report the Irish
Antiquaries denounce the injury done
to the Hill of Tara
Lately the Paris Chamber of Com.
merce celebrated its first centenary
with gala banquet.
Severe frosts have ruined the Ser.
Wan plum crop. The damage is es.
timated at G640,000
1t is announced from Pretoria that
eX-President Kruger's house will short.
ly be opened as a private hotel.
The Infanta Isabella of Spain has
undergone n painful surgical opera
ton in consequence of her recent kick
from a horse.
On the 81 acres of ground devoted
10 the live stock department at the
Worlds fair at st. Louis are being
built $500 stalls.
1t is computed by a German. DR.
Haarman, that 247,O00 tons of steel
Is lost by friction on the worlds rail
ways in year.
All motor trials announced to take
place in Belgium have been postponed
by decision of the com -iittee of the
Automobile Club.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle denies the
statement that he is coming to Amer
lea to get local color for a revival o.
sherlock Holmes"
Brazil eXpectes to spend 5000 900 in
gold at the Worlds Fair, the pres.
ident of the republic having recon-.
mended that amount
Galileo's first telescope was made
from part of lead water pipe. Ia
each end of which he cemented com.
mon spectacle glasses.
There are more wrecks in the Baltic
sea than in any other place in the
world The average is one wreck
day throughout the year.
j. b. Greenhut, of Peoria. Ill. has
started for Russia and various points
in Besserabia. where he will study
the condition of the Jews.
President Diaz. of Mexico. has in
augurated the work upon the Pantheon
which is intended to be a monument
to the iilustrious men of his country
At Halle railway station. Germany
waiting room has been opened .r
which all the newspapers. magazine,
and reviews can be read free ~ charge
IT is said Eat Geo. b. Mcclellan
is slated for mayor on the Tammgny
Hall ticket to make the race against
fusion and Seth Low, in New York
II Is stated that on January /. 1903
there were 1,124 bituminous coal mines
in operation in Pennsylvania. as com.
pared with 94S on December 81 1900
Nine. LOubet, wife of the French
president, is strong advocate OF co
education. and believes thoroughly ~
the American methods OF training
girls
An unexploded four-inch rife shell
supposed to be civil war relic. was
drawn up through the ~uction purnr
OF a dredger off the coast Of FIoridg.
recently.
The prevalence OF rabies has reached
such dangerous proportions in Chicaac
that education Of policemen i'm TIE
symptoms Of the disease Is urged 4.
necessary
Exports Of lard from the United.
States have declined from 1880 .gOq
pounds in the II months ended Nav
81, 1902, to 445.31S491 pounds for the
corresponding II months ended Nav
81 1903.
Maltese Catholics have been advised
by the Pope. through the Bisbop t.
cease agitating in favor Of the Italian
language and to be faithful subjects
OF King Edward
PROBABLY the Oldest physician IN
France is DR.. David, who lives at Mont
pelier. aged 1913. lie has been seriously
Ill twice in his life. At % he MAD
typhoid fever. at SO pneumonia.
Lieutenant Ture. of the French navy
has. after much study, devised a plan
for a ship, the passengers Oh which
will. be imagines, be proof against
seasickness. He has caught the jdes
from the motion OF swing