Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-02-10
CURRENT TOPICS.

The typewriter is more largely used
In Mexico than in France
American silverware is too light and
ornate to suit English tastes.
Texas hay can be sold in England
cheaper than the home product.
The world contains $4,000 locomo-
tives, of which sc 500 are in Europe.
The pouch of the average pelican Is
large enough to contain seven quarts
OF water.
One hundred unions are already rep
resented in the new trades council at
Toronto. Can.
The Seven Stars inn at Manchester
Eng boasts Of having been licensed
for $50 years
More than 100000 worth of
sporting goods were sold in the United
States last year.
The average farm laborer's family
in England lives on s1S5 a year: the
average mechanics family spends $500.
The catching OF snakes and the col
lectinS OF their venom. which fetches
50 per grain. is a new industry in Aus.
fralia
Travelling baths on one of the Rus.
sian railways are the latest provision
Tor its employees comfort in OUTLYING
districts
six months cruise will decrease
the speed of a ship 16 per cent. This
is owing TO the barnacles that gather
on the hull
Last years reports from the $4,000
post Offices in the German empire show
letter cards sold
Efforts are being made to collect
sufficient funds to build a church in
Stockholm to the memory of Emman-
uel Swedenbcrg.
Leipsic's new railway station cost
13O,O00,00C marks 1892 900 .OOO. OF
this sum Prussia and Saxony con-
tribute 100000 marks.
cubic foot Of new fallen snow
weighs five and one-haif pounds on the
average. and has 10 times the bulk OF
an equal weight of water
Ohio labor unions are in favor OF
compulsory education. and want night
schools extended in order that work.
ers may receive instruction.
Signor Francolini of Spoleto italy
asserts that the little Clitumno river.
formerly venerated by the Romans as
holy stream. contains radium.
Parts of the Sea Of Azov was
frozen so hard this winter that IL IA
reported artillery might with safety
be Unanswered over the surface.
From Russia and the Danube the
exports Of faXseed from August IN
December 10. 1903. are reported 20
have amounted to 100000 bushels.
Morgan and the Standard Oil
alliances control not less than s2O5
100000 of the s4jl 900 900 of the bank,
ing capital in the city of New York.
st. Michael's church. at Coventry
Is said to have the widest nave of anv
English church. II is 125 feet wide.
That of York Minister is 1O4H feet in
width
The only large cities that have not
a large German population are Bos.
ton, with less than per cent. Ger.
mans. and Washington, d. c.. with 7
per cent
Exports OF corn from Argentina
from January l TO December o. 1903.
were 77221.OO0 bushels. against 49,.
O40o bushels for the same time the
previous year
Tho 1903 corn crop Of Italy is esti.
mated by the italian minister OF agri.
culture at $1,000. 900 bushels. against
the preliminary estimate for 1902 Of
60 600 900 bushels.
Six hundred registered trade unions
in the United Kingdom are computed
TO have on hand something over SOP
100000 for death. sick benefits. out OF
work and emergency contingencies
Hildesheim (HanoverJ town council
has decided 10 preserve the ancient ap.
pearance Of its streets by ordering
that all new private buildings must
he IN the 18th century German style
The tobacco crop Of S1j,972425
pounds, at an average price N 68
cents pound produced a revenue OF
$55.5l4,627 last year The average
yield 70 the acre from .O37.735 acres
vas 1863 pounds
Now that cotton presses reduce the
size Of q bale until Il weighs A. pounds
10 the square foot. one ship will carry
tho product Of 10000 acres OF aver.
age cotton land.
Prof George Lyman Kittridge OF
the chair Of English at Harvard. has
Just been elected president Of the Nod.
ern Language association at its meet.
ing held in Detroit
Thirteen snunboxes in agate and
Jasper. ornamented with gold and pre-.
cious stones. and formerly the prop
erty Of Frederick the Great. have been
presented by the kaiser to the Hohen
EoJlern museum.