Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-05-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

Missionaries are at work in 247 OF
the walled cities of China
Australia has more churches per
capita than any other country.
Primary agriculture schools are now
established in IL cities of Saxony.
In Japan state socialism is favored
by the government and taught in the
colleges.
Miss Loretta Elliott of Orient, Me,
has had years OF success as raiser OF
race horses.
Mrs. NJ. E. B. Culbertson, of Rich.
mond, Ind. models hands and rcakes
death masks.
Miss Mary E. Adams is assistant
state microscopic of Iowa, located near
Cedar Rapids.
Miss Ida Norrell, OF Augusta, Ca.
has made a field for herself as a per-
fumery maker.
Mining, other than gold mining, has
not been in fourishing condition of
late in Australia.
Miss Daisy Stevenson. of Rochester,
Is one of the two women butchers in
the United States.
Miss Anita Martin is accum ulating
d competence raising turkeys in a
Texas country town.
Argentina's money market is over
locked. Pitts of useless coins arc ly-
ing idle in the banks
Out in California Mrs Annie Kline
Rickert is president of TIE Stockton &
Tuolumne Railroad Co.
France produced last year 2,S27 900
metric tons of pig IRON which is an in.
crease of 100000 tons over 1902.
Jean Jaures. the socialist vice presi-
dent of the French chamber of depu-
ties, never pays more than $40 for
suit of clothes.
The output Of maple sugar in Yer
mont for the present season is astimat-
ed commercially at from Is, 900 900 to
2O,000,000 pounds.
Miss Yeomans is known all over Cal
ifornia as butterfly catcher She runs
a regular international butterfly ex-
change, and finds it very profitable.
The Chicago Federation OF Labor
will send its best orators to address
students in the universities and wom-
ems clubs regarding the labor move
ment.
The export trade in bananas from
Porto Rico TO the United States began
In 1881, and has grown from $500
punches to upward Of 100000 bunch
es annually.
Shipments of wheat from Argentina
frnrfo Inp toA u l., -
$4,000 bushels, against 32,4C2 900
bushels during the corresponding pc
Rod a year ago.
The woods of northern British Amer
lea are still infested with a queer spe.
cies of bison, known as the woods
buffalo, 1t is much larger than the Iii
Son of the plains
1t is proposed at the Worlds fair to
have thorough test of Goals and lig.
mites of the United States to determine
their full value and the most economic
method of their utilization.
In the nine months ended March 81.
1904, there were exported from the
United States 410,S16 head of cattle
as compared with 249,49 head during
the same period in 1902-O3.
Exports of corn from the United
States during the first nine months of
the present fiscal year were 49,5J3. 599
bushels, against 52,65601S bushels for
the same period year ago.
The cost of maintaining the English
navy now amounts to s22 year for
every family in Great Britain. or more
than two weeks wages for the great
body of the working people.
The quantity of faxseed shipped
from Argentina from January 10
May 6. 1903, amounted to 24.596. 900
bushels, compared with 15.413.OOO
bushels for the same time in 1909.
A syndicate with a capital OF 700.
900 lire (s96,5O0) has just been formed
at Milan, Italy, by some of the most
important cotton brokers, in order to
foster the growing of cotton in East
Africa
Much bitterness has been caused in
England by the fact that Rev. Regi.
maid Campbell the celebrated noncon-
formist who succeeded DR.. Parker.
was recently presented at court by the
bishop Of London
a recent United States Labor Bu-
reau bulletin states that trade union.
ism in England is % years i'm advance
of that in this country in its methods.
and that sympathetic strikes are be-
coming unknown in England
The longest fence in the world IS
probably that which has been erected
by the Erie Cattle co. along the Noyi-
can border j. is - miles i'm length.
and separates exactly for its entire dis.
tanco The two republics of North A ncr.
lea
The cheapes. refuse from bitumin
Gus Goa is being utilized I'm England
for The production OF gas for power
and heating purposes. The gas is not
an inIuiaaut and its COS. is only