Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-08-03
CURRENT TOPICS.

The North German Lloyd has 81
steamers on ii lines in East Asatic
waters.
In 1902 there were S,5SS persons
killed in this country by the railroads
and G4,662 injured.
Wages for common laborers I'm Ire
land are almost double what they
were IL years ago.
Ii would require the work of 25,-
100000 teams to do the work now
done by the railroads.
The population of Austria increased
from 22,144,24 in 1900 to 26,150, 700 in
1901, or by 1909 per cent
Contracts have been let by the
Grand Trunk railway for new 800
loot ferry to be used at Toledo.
Experts at Newport r. l., say that
the submarine boat can go 200 miles
to sea with perfect safety to the crew.
Old Calabar, %ne headquarters Of the
Southern Nigeria government. has
Just been connected by telegraph with
England
Boston (Mass) Painters and Deco
rators' union is the largest painters
local in the world, with nearly 1000
members.
Tea began TO be used in England as
national beverage in the year 1857,
when the price was from $50 to SIS
per pound.
The town council of Queenstown,
Cape Colony, contemplates putting up
plant for telephone and water
works service; the estimated cost is
nearly S35000O.
The Bakers and Confectioners' In
ternational union recently issued its
first charter of a local union of the
craft in Porto Rico. The local begins
with 70 members.
Italy has 100000 trees bearing
oranges, lemons and pomegranates
OF last years crop, S44,329 hundred
weight went to Great Britain, 726,327
TO North America.
1t is estimated that ABOUT $500
travellers from the United States have
visited Greece during each of the last
four years, and have annually left
about s1,5OO,0OO in the kingdom.
The deaths of women directly aris-
ing from intemperance have increased.
said the bishop of Croydon, England,
by $50 per cent since 1875, as shown
by the registrar generals returns.
American residents of London pro-
pose to honor the memory of John
Harvard, founder Of the famous Mas
sachusetts college, by window in st.
Savior church, Southwark, where he
was born
In France the prospects for the com
Ing year, according to contracts now
IN view for shipbuilding. railroads and
structural works give promise Of a
much larger demand for iron and steel
in the near future.
DR.. J. Furness Brice. ships sur
geon on the Transatlantic liner Gym
rio is now on his S19th voyage. So
far in his life he has traversed some
thing like 100000 miles, equal to 100
times around the globe.
Count Won Buelow. unlike Bismarck.
does not dislike newspaper carica-
lures. He even confessed in a recent
address that he has been collecting
such caricatures for years. including
those that concern himself
DR.. Allan Macfadyen. director of
the Jenner institute in London. has
obtained an antityphoid serum by OK
pressing the Juices from typhoid bacil-
ii, first rendering them brittle bv
freezing them with LIQUID air.
The smallest coin iu the world hav-
ing a genuine circulation is probably
The Maltese grain tiny fragrant
Of bronze about as big around as the
top Of slate pencil, and having a val
ne OF only one-twelfth Of Il penny
Under no 1a ,rse ~ IL. 80. -t, . o.. T.
tidden to use any unmalted corn or
any substance whatever as substitute
for or mixture with malt (cvsporatcd
or airdriedJ. For the brewing OF
brown beer only malt or barley may
be employed
In one toads stomach have been
found II thousandleg worms. in an
other 81 tent caterpillars. in another's
65 gypeeymOth caterpillars. and in
yet another-s 60 army worms. Thirty
large caterpillars have been led 10 a
toad in less than three hours
stone jsr Of butter was found on
farm near Lincoln. Neb.. the other
Gay II was buried ~ years ago. and
When exhumed was found 10 be sweet
hnd yellow, even though. as the vera
cious CORES pond ~ declares. the
stone crock crumb3ed 10 pieces when
exposed TO the air
Perhaps in no country in the world
Goes rice enter into the daily con-
sumption OF food 10 q greater extent
man in Cuba. Here al classes con.
sumo 1t Indeed, among the peasantry,
or country people. where wheat bread
,s scarcely used ~ all, rice is yerita
piy the stan q lie"