Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-03-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

During the last decade American ex.
ports to China increased sixfold
Authorities on criminology saw that
majority of criminals use opium.
Flour from Hardin. Manchuria. is
driving American flour from the far
eastern market.
Austrian cotton mills use $4,000. 900
pounds of cotton year, two-thirds of
which is American.
Broomcorn to the value of s233 795
was exported from the United States
during the year 1903
The only important independent
states now remaining in Africa are
Abyssinia and Liberia.
Yale professors will hereafter be re-
tired from service, except in special
cases, at GS years of age
Engine drivers working from Crewe
to London and back have to notice
no fewer than $40 signals
Out Of $50 automobiles in the annual
exhibition in New York city so are
electrical and 175 gasoline.
The first electric interurban railway
projected in Cuba is one from Glen
1uegos, 30 miles to Cruces.
America is now exporting about ST.
100000 worth of shoes year. of which
Great Britain gets one-third.
The greatest mortality from pneu-
monia is in the months OF February,
March and April, that for April being
the highest.
Cider in quantity of 674.16 gallons
of ha al, g
ed from this country during the last
calendar year
Over 100000 pounds OF opium pre-
pared for smoking purposes were i'm
ported last year, and the importation
is increasing
London harness makers and car
rage builders are suffering loss OF
trade by the growing popularity of
the motor car
All Austrian officers possessing mo-
tor cars have been ordered by the min
lister Of war to report themselves for
service, bringing their machines.
In Germany the per capita consump-
tion of petroleum is 46 pounds; of salt,
1876 pounds; of sugar, 2705 pounds; OF
herring, 79l pounds, and of coffee, 6.62
pounds.
The authorities in charge of the
telephone service in Japan have decid-
ed to employ only girls. both for day
and night duty, at the various ex-
changes.
The oldest canal in the world is that
which extends from the frontier of Chi
ma to Peking. 3,472 miles In India
there are $4,000 miles of canals, irri
eating 100000 acres of land
If the sun were hollow it could hold
100000 globes the size OF our earth.
and an eye capable Of viewing 10000
square miles an hour would require
$4,000 years to see all its surface.
An airship larger than any yet con.
structed is to he built at St Ouen. II
has been designed by Senior Jos de
Patrocini, who has received a subsidy
from the Brazilian government for the
purpose.
Ammonia Is the best all-around
household drug we know Of Various
ly diluted, it will do more toward
cleansing or keeping things bright. be
1t carpet. or silver, etc, than any
other known chemical.
In Germany the number OF recruits
heart disease has risen from 90 per
1000, in 1894, to ia. In France these
figures for the same years ranged only
from 397 per 1000 to 407.
Profs. Usteri. of Zurich. and Ritter.
of Geneva, while searching for the
archives Of the Rcinhart family at
Winterthur. found nearly a hundred
unpublished letters Of Nine de Stael.
They are TO appear shortly.
Hubbardtown Mass. with p popuIa.
ton Of a little over 1900. has % peo-
pie that are so years old or over The
average age Of these people is IS
years: all Of them, with the excep-
ton OF two. are in good health
Herr Dambitsch a Berlin citizen.
has brought an action against the
manager Of n local thcatcr 20 compel
him TO cease using his name for one
Of the characters "a c1arlatan). who
appears in Il piece now running.
Prof Cook. Of Northwestern univer.
sity has shown that there is sufficient
radium in p.tchblende TO make il nos
sibie for photograph to be taken by
1t directly Prof Cook states that the
value Of the experiment lies in the
proof ~ q new way in which 10 Jis.
cover radium in minerals.
Speaking ~ cremation. the London
Lancet expresses tho opinion t1at tho
chances Of a living body thought TO he
dead being reduced TO ashes are too
indefinitely remote TO merit attention
In the vast majority of instances there
rs no real foundation for the stories
of premature burial or intended burial.