Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1903-05-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

france VIII soon nave nickel coin
equal in value to an American five
cent piece.
German and Austrian farmers are on
their way to America to study metho ds
OF agriculture.
Hills of gold" are reported to have
been discovered at Aritunga, ir Cen.
trail Australia
Coal miners at the Dark Lane Col
hery, Mirfield. Eng, have been on
strike for 112 weeks.
The March output Of Lake Superior
copper exceeded 100000 pounds. a
record for single month.
The only living direct descendant OF
Robert Burns is Robert Burns Hutch
lnson, Chicago shipping clerk.
Football has been taken up enthusi-
astically in Berlin. where recently Is
matches were played in one day.
Princess Louise of Saxony has again
been prayed for in the royal chapel at
Dresden as that unhappy woman"
Over 900 dwellings in Cologne have
just been condemned by the police as
bad, either for the health or morals Of
the occupants.
Newspaper men OF Spain have
formed a union and will demand a
minimum wage of S3S a month and one
day off a week.
In the new senate the republicans
have only one senator from the south
southwest and border states-Mc
Comas, of Maryland.
Ambassador Towers new residence
&C of &c
a revelation to Berliners in the way OF
splendor and luxury.
1t is said that a John Henry" club
for the perpetuation of picturesque
and pointed Lang, has been formed
among the Harvard students.
The New York Legislature has
passed bill prohibiting discrimna.
ton against the national guard by la
Dor organizations or employers.
The researches of the last few years
have furnished us with the lost con-
stitution of Aristotle, fragments OF
Sappho, ,Isocrates and Hyperides.
DR.. Frank Gallard, of Paris, is in
Boston as representative OF the
French government to inspect some
Of the textile industries OF the state.
The consumption of mineral waters
!n the United States has been in.
creased enormously until it now ag-
gregates $4,000 900 worth per annum.
Since May 1, 1902, according to an
estimate published in Berlin, the Ger
man emperor has made so voyages
and altogether travelled over $4,000
miles.
NJ. Joseph Vallot, the French scien.
fist, whose observatory is located on
Mont Blanc, has the highest home in
the world, being 1900 feet above the
sea level.
Fossil bones Of the prehistoric NAM
moth elephant have been washed by
the sea from the bed of the cliffs be.
tween Bacton and Mundesley on the
east coast.
Because it came from Jew. ali
offer of G $4,000 for a monument to the
Polish patriot Kosciusko. at Lemberg,
Galicia, has been declined as Jewish
impertinence."
Champagne every 90 minutes was or
dered by his doctor, and that made six
weeks illness cost 800. said Mr.. w.
G.. Whittingham when examined as to
his bankruptcy.
A. G. Mclaughlin. professor of his
tory in the University of Michigan. has
been given a years leave Of absence to
delve into ancient manuscript in
Washington. ID. c.
Quite a number OF seals have been
seen lately off the Berwickshire coast.
England. One which was captured at
st. Abb's Head was seven feet long
and $50 pounds in weight.
As sure protection against forger.
les, well-known London artist. Mr..
W. J. Wainwright. has adopted tho
plan Of impressing thumbprint in
the corner. OF his pictures.
Henri Willcm Mesdag. the Holland
painter. has decided to offer his IN.
nous collection of paintings to the
Dutch people The collection is val
ued at several million forms.
Mrs. Sarah x. Bolton. OF Cleveland.
will shortly make a tour Of the larger
cities 10 plead the cause Of the waif
cat and tramp dog waging active war
against pounds and setting up homes
Of refuge.
EX-Gov. Johnson. Of the Clickasaw
nation is a man of good address. mol
is1ed and courtly and so well up I'm the
civilization Of the white man that no
ono would think him Of aborigine
stock, except for his coaLblack hair
and the suggestion Of copper hue. o.
Leaves Of plant alleged 70 drive
away mosquitoes have reached English
botanists from Africa. The presence
Il a single plant is said 20 clear n
room Of the pest. and an infusion ~
the leaves has been found an effective
substitute for quinn I'm the treatment
Of mosquito-conveyed nalarial fever.
Hearing that one Of their class had
been beaten 10 death by the police
Russian peasarts at Sotsch. DiedGuT.
ing, broke into the jail and released
afQht urfeoupre