Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-10-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

AZ" "SSu III paper making IN IeXaS.
Dog lovers in Berlin have to pay
tax Of So a year Cn each of their pets.
The world uses $500, 900 600 worth OF
COTTON goods in yenr. or this Great
britain manufactures &C per cent
Prof. Erichs Narcks. the biographer
OF Emperor William l.. has been asked
by Prince Herbert Bismarck to write
life of his father.
John +. Fischer. leader of the New.
ark theater orchestra. has recovered a
Sooo violin which was stolen from the
tneater almost year ago
Librarian Ballard. of the Athenaeum
library, Of Pittsfield, Mass. has Just
occurred collection OF rare originals
relating TO Shays rebellion.
London has no less than 3l3 parks
and open spaces, while in 1884 the
number was only 1903 They are reck-
oned 10 have cost $40 1886 900.
Australia has the largest duck farms
anu the largest incubator in the world.
The Incubator has a capacity of lilo
duck eggs and $4,000 hen eggs.
Delasoa bay seems to be an Eldora.
40 for gambling places. During one
single week no less than S6 of them
were raided by the local police.
Russia is now to build six battle
ships which will be larger than any
heretofore constructed and will have
much greater radius of action.
The women of Toms River. n. J..
have formed village improy ement as
sociation. TO beautify the city. and have
Ire
Gov s. Il. Van SAINT. of Minnesota.
fShakes formal statement that he will
k'ot be candidate for United States
{,enator TO succeed Senator Clapp.
n The deaths from consumption in
ew York have decreased 40 per cent.
zee ITS health department began its
r}s2de against ihe disease two years
6krs. Leland Stanford is said to car
Y!AIs larger amount of insurance than
|vsrI other woma- in the world. Her
are ic'es amount to more than $1,000
ab
were incommoded by a strong odor.
which was found to emanate from a
barrel ID sardines stolen and hidden
there
Prof. Homer Smith. who in the alb
sence OF Prof. Neil has been teaching
English at Amherst. has accepted the
position of professor of English Mt
Ursinus college
The Rev Samuel Simpson after
spending one year as lecturer at the
Hartford Theological seminary. he's
lle
tory at that institution.
1t is understood that w. X. Wander
bilt has definitely decided to take an
active part in American racing and
that he is planning a stable of SPLEEN
did proportions for 1904.
julius Krutt Schmidt. jr., went TO
Yale as a freshman in a private car.
Guodaloupe. His father is fourth vice
president and general manager of the
Southern Pacific railroad.
Miss Laura NJ. Cornelius. an Oneida
Indian. studying at the University of
California, says she will devote her
lie TO the preservation OF the language
and literature OF her people.
Alfred Mosley. of London. Eng. a
writer of economic subjects. has en-.
tered his TWO sons as freshmen IN Yale
university in preference to sending
them TO Oxford or Cambridge.
John Hazeltine known throughout
central New York as a philanthropist.
mas announced plans TO take a colony
OF 1000 Syracuse people to Montana
Tor the purpose of establishing a town
The place Of the Won Rulow family
let. Il
years. No other family during the nc.
ZOO mas contributed more officers 10
me empire either in military or civil
life.
An Irish woman Miss Douglass has
been appointed TO the post OF horticui-
tural lecturer by the county council
OF Louth. the first woman appointed
10 such post in ireland. and over
men competitors
Rabbi Glazier Of Des Moines. ia is
compiling history Of Jews in Iowa
lie has succeeded in tracing the first
arrival Of Jews in that state back 10
1872. when wandering band of Rus
SLAMS entered Iowa CITY.
Hungarian peasants have super.
stition that fire kindled by lightning
van OH! Ue eNtinguished by milk and
owing 20 their refusal to use water 81
barn with farmers whole hay crop
has been burnt IN one of the Dro.
vinces
The hyg.enic congress at Berlin ha,'
decided that quarantine on persons
coming from countries where bp,,,pio
plague BE- prevalent is vexatious and
that good sanitation on board youid
be much more effective way Of 6ual
ing with the plague.
A new anesthetic preparation is
known chemically as ~alkyioxyphonyl
quaindin." The name itself ought 20
be sufficient to put almost anybody 20
sleep.
In Vienna a widow has been fired
TWO sums Of s. sd-the first for allow.
ing a flower pot 10 fall ont Of her win.