Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-04-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

Japan has Is docks capable of &C
commodating warships.
Members of organized labor in Du-
luth, Mimi. are seriously talking OF
building labor temple.
The receipts of the Cuban govern
ment last year were s1SOO7,3 800 and its
expenses were 1888, G46
The average cost for carrying q pas
senger on the street railways of the
United States is % cents.
The moon moves with a mean veloc-
ity of $3.50 feet per second-a' little
faster than the highest speed yet given
TO cannon ball.
Chicago is to have new proof
theatre costing sl75,O 900. The site is
said to be in West Madison street.
near Ogden avenue.
In the schools of Rhenish Prussia
change of stockings and shoes is pro-
vided for the use in school of children
who arrive with wet feet.
The eXportat'ons for foreign ports
by way of Aleplo and the Syrian ports
are destined almost entirely for Eng
land, Austria and Russia
The smallest conscrpt. at the latest
drawing for service in the French
trmy, was Joannes Chabaud of Yer
pilliere. His height is two feet eleven
inches and he weighs 67Ia pounds.
His age is 81.
Chief Garrison. Of the New Jersey
state bureau of statistics. has issued
a bulletin showing that New Jersey as
a WOODEN manufacturing state now
ranks first in the Union. In 1880 it
was the sixth in the list.
a recent study of infant mortality in
France shows that out of every 1000
deaths of infants under l year old. 116
were Of breasted infants. go of bot
le-fed and 594 of infants to whom solid
food had been given too early.
To further the growth of cotton in
Africa, a syndicate with a capital OF
$40 500 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
Consul l.. f. Dudley, reporting from
Vancouver, b. c., reports the discovery
of new gold fields at Alsek. 40 miles
V
near the northern terminus Of the
White Pass and Yukon railway
The Dublin Freemans Journal saws
that lreland's exhibit at St Louis will
include not only Irish pictures by
great Irish painters. but portraits of
Irish celebrities and Irish beauties by
the great masters of portrait painting
Mrs. Francis Dannbacher is dead at
Bloomfield, n. J., from blood poisoning.
While celebrating her seventy-first
birthday recently she received a bou-
1uet Of roses and scratched her finger
CD thorn. Blood poisoning followed.
Tne foreigner should beware Of
making presents to any japanese girl
unless he is bent upon matrimony. To
present her with any sort OF a gift
even though it be only n posy. will be
regarded as proposal marriage. and
10 accept the present. though not a
word of love or matrimony be passed
is a sign that she accepts you.
Advices from Guatemala state that
recently the lightermen. the best paid
laborers in the country. struck for
higher wages. The demand being re
garded by the government as unrca
sonable. ; of the ringloaders were
Imprisoned and the strike collapsed
Fifty thousand bags Of coffee were de
layed in shipment owing to the strike
William J Hammer. the Edison OK
pert. after examining the first hundred
pounds Of pitchblende from Gilpir
county. Col. said that It was so RAJ
ahead Of the material the Cures haC
been getting from Bohemia. and there
was so much Of it in sight that all de
mands Of science for radium woulf
soon DC supplied in this country at
far lower rate than AZ present.
The charge for transmitting wireless
messages from ship 10 ship at sea 3.
Cd a word. From ship TO shore the
rate on the American side is 81 for ter
words and 70 cents for each additions
word. with no charge for address ant
signature On the English side the
charge for marconigram from o Iiner
IS shllngs for II words and Cd foi
each additional word. the signature
and address being charged for.
The cost Of hauling a ton Of freight
milo on Great Britain's greatest rail
way Us Jas cent. on the Pennsylva
MIA 80 cent and on the New Yorl
Central Al cent
All the glass manufactures I'm Bel
gium are uniting in a trust lin order
20 oppose the demand Of the labor
unions for wages and 10 obtain better
selling prices in foreign markets"
Edward Brook. Of Holdam Castle
Amman, who died recently. has be
qucathed the sum OF GG.482 JOS TO the
working people in the mills OF Hud
dersfeld, Of which he vas senior di
rector