Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-05-18
CURRENT TOPICS.


will be seen at the Worlds fair.
Germany's chief exports to African
colonies consist in spirituous liquors.
Within three months six women have
been executed in Bohemia for MUIR
dering their husbands.
There is only one woman admiral in
the world. The Queen of Greece is an
admiral in the Russian navy.
The London (England) Graphic says
home life is practically unknown
among the working class Of London"
The Japanese government has stop
per work on all new railway lines ex-
cept those needed for transporting
army supplies.
! The receipts from shipping on the
Suez canal in March amounted to ST.
10000. against s1,74O 900 in 1903. and
s2,012. 900 in 1902.
The working classes of England, &C.
cording to the Bishops of Chester. lose
G 100000 in wages through illness in
the course of year.
Paul 'Estournelles Constant. French
diplomat, an enthusiastic worker for
universal disarmament. will lecture in
this country this year.
The steel product of Germany will
hereafter be ably managed both at
home and abroad and the days OF in.
discriminate competition are over.
Framework" an association of
women at Hamburg, demands a law
forbidding children. as we'll as women
who teach in schools, to wear corsets
What is said to be the largest loom
In the world has been built in Ger
many for weaving artists painting
cloth. 1t is capable of weaving felts
Is feet wide.
Inc state weather report says rains
have practically insured a bumper
wheat crop In Kansas. The plant is
btolling out we'll and jointing in the
touthern portion.
The Society Of Friends of the Iouvrs
has purchased two very rare scup.
tured columns OF the twelfth century.
They once formed a part of a monas-
terry in Chartres.
On the submits OF the Rigi and Pila-
u Alpine gardens are to be maintain
ed for purposes of botanic study and
for the preservation and propagation
OF rare Swiss plants
In order to protect workmen going
to and from logging camps from pro-
fessional gamblers the Duluth & Iron
Range railroad has forbidden any and
all card playing on trains Of the com.
pany.
AT Chiselhurst, eleven miles from
London, remarkable underground
chambers cuS in chalk have been dis
covered. They extend for miles and
would accommodate hundreds of per.
sons.
a st. Louis court has decided that
a father has right to ring the cur.
few on his daughters callers at II
O'Clock, and, If necessary. supplement
II by election from his premises vi ct
arms.
German papers report that steps are
being taken in Algeria to manufacture
natural soap on a large scale from
tree known as "Sapindus utilis." This
plant has long been known in japan.
China and India.
Returns of trade between England
and France in the first two months of
1904 show that England's exports to
France decreased s47,14O from last
year, while frances exports TO En-.
land fell off $3.5O3. 500.
The toothpick habit cost the life of
Adolph Weymann. a candy manufac.
turer, Of 81. Louis He died from
cancer of the tongue. caused by tho
habit of carrying a toothpick in his
mouth hours at time.
In 1873, in Germany. 500 600 trees
are said to have been DESTROYED in the
HartZ Forest alone by two small spe.
cies OF beetles. The larvae burrow be.
meath the bark and thus cause the in.
jury to the growing trees.
Greece is overrun by well-educated
men who do not know how to earn a
living. The country swarms with doc.
tors who have no patients and LAWYERS
who have no briefs, while laborers 10
I'LL the soil are at a premium.
A Partisan who has been much an.
noyed by duns has connected his bell
handle with a powerful electric bat.
terry. and switches on the current al
psychological moments SO far. the
police have declined to interfere.
Yorkshire. England. has a farm on
which moths and butterflies are raised
for sale. II IS planted with trees and
shrubs for the purpose Forty thou.
sand caterpillars are always on hand
and orders can be filled at any time
of the year
The biggest searchllght in the world
will be seen at the Worlds Fair II
was recently finished in an electric
plant at Lowell. Mass. It weighs near.
Iy four tons, is OF $3.50 OGO candle DOW.
er and projects a beam Of light seven
feet in diameter.
An imperial trade has been pub.
hshed at Constantinople, in which
married Turkish women are com
manded to discard all brilliant orna-
ments. such as necklaces and bangles,
when appearing in pubnc. They must