Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-04-27
CURRENT TOPICS.


The life of deep-sea cable is from
80 to 40 years.
The latest type Of compound freight
engine weighs 1S1 tons
Church membership in China has
frebled during the last IL years
From the peasant class the largest
part of the army is recruited in Russia
A new explosive. which is called
ammonia. has been made from pow
dered aluminium
The Methodist year book for 1904 re-
ports gain of nearly 1000 churches
during the last year
Among the New York bricklayers
the lowest wage is $500 a week. and
the highest is over $50
There is only one woman admiral in
the world. The queen OF Greece is an
admiral in the Russian navy.
There is within Russia herself an
almost universal longing for defeat at
the hands of some foreign foe
1t costs New York five times as
much as it does London to maintain
parks and recreation grounds.
The 1902 apple crop of Michigan. as
recently reported by the state secre-
tary of state, amounted to II ,331.524
bushels.
ID. S. Cairns, a brilliant English
writer, calls the military preparations
of the great nations international
anarchy"
The expenditures by the government
of Korea amount to about $1G5. 900 a
year, but for religious sacrifices 1885,.
600 is spent
new acid has been discovered by
DIR. William Foster, of Princeton uni
Versity, which he has named the trisul-
phoXyarsenic acid
From January TO April .. 1904. Ar
gentina exported 30,940 900 bushels of
whoet; exports for the same period a
year ago were q .3J5 600 bushels.
The exports of corn from Argentina
from January l to April 9. 1904. have
Teen 9,216.000 bushels against 1892
900 bushels for the corresponding pc.
riod last year.
Capt. Buchanan. who is in command
OF the American-built Turkish cruiser
Medjidich. which is now on its way
to Constantinople. has accepted com.
mission in the Turkish navy.
After practically SO years connec-
ton with the British observatory.
Prof. Forster proposes to retire from
the dictatorship, to which he succeed
ed on the retirement of Eneke.
From each weather bureau station the
appearance of the first robin in spring
must be reported by telegraph to the
Washington office. The movements of
no other bird or animal are noticed.
The little tailorbird not only sews
but spins, weaving raw cotton into
thread for its own purpose With this
thread it sews with actual stitches n
sack of leaves in which to rear its
young.
An official report says: At the time
OF the American occupation there was
not school house in Porto Rico: that
there are $4,000 children now in
school; that there are 10000 unpro-
vided for.
A lone horse car passes I'D and
down Amsterdam avenue. New York.
daily on the old tracks which were
used there before the trolley system
was installed. 1t Is run to keep alive
franchise.
Rather than pay the international
revenue tax, a brewery company IL
New York. which was retiring from
business, poured out 1900 kegs OF
beer and allowed IL TO run into the
Hudson river
The coal bill of the Russian Pacific
squadron at anchor ia said to be 81
100000 a year One ironclad uses ~
~ daf1 10
1T is principally Cardiff coal. which
costs 1881 a ton.
The United States employed 1o.555
men in distributing mail last year
The cost, distributed among /. 400
lines. was s63,594.00O In 373 acct.
dents to mail cars IS clerks were
killed and rs seriously injured.
Receipts OF cattle in January and
February, 1904. at the five western
markets. Chicago, Kansas City. Omaha.
ST. Louis and st. Joseph. were $50
SS6 head against 1.177,26G head in the
corresponding months year ago.
A new use has been found for sky.
Fcrapers. A recent case Of suicide in
New York. in which a man jumped
from the 2lst story Of a Broadway
cloud piercer indicates that shutting
on from dizzy heights is attractive.
A German professor says that over
large area Of Central Russia the mag
netic needle does not point north or
south. II is In one part DETECTED 70
the west and another part TO the east
md in one place 1t points due east and
west
Every child should be taught that
thirst quenching does not depend so
greatly on the quantity Of fluid that is
swallowed as on the length OF time
during which liquid is kept in contact
with the tissues OF the mouth and
throat
IhTee dangerous burglars were