Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-03-23
CURRENT TOPICS.

same average brain weight
The average railway iosrney in tho
United States is 2Sl5 miles.
Australia has more churches per
capita than any other country.
There are 500 Christian churches in
Japan and over 900 missionaries.
There are II metals which are more
valuable than gold pound for pound.
Attractive metal kiosks are being
erected at the entrance of the lew
York subway.
Russian lieutenant gets about
5000 year. a captain about $500. and
major $3.50
A New York state cider mill is shin.
ping 1000 barrels Of cider 10 England
on single order
The trades unions of Chicago con
tain $4,000 women. Even the scrub
women are organized.
A Dakota potato farmer reports a
crop of 1000 bushels from 80 acres
and sold at 20 cents per bushel.
In Chicago there is an organization
of several thousand business men who
are pledged not to employ cigarette
smokers
Peaches are in bloom in the extreme
Southern states Apparently most OF
che peaches will be grown in the South
this year
The duke of Norfolk presented his
fancee with black sable cloak shat
cost $4,000.
Since King Henry took up the hob,
Ivy of canary breeding prices have
steadily advanced. until crested birds
have been sold at $3.50 pair.
The rarest postage stamp ir exist
ence is he one-cent British Guiana
stamp of 1855 Only on. specimen.
owned in Paris, is known to exist.
very important temperance move.
Inent is in progress in France. under
the auspices of the Union Anti-Alco.
holiQue 1t is directed especially
against absinthe and brandy.
Work is to begin Immediately on the
erection Of a large museum in Ottawa.
to be called the Victoria national mu-
scum. which is to be the center of
literature and scientinc work in Can
ada.
At an art sale held recently at the
Hotel Drouot. in Paris. NJ BencGite.
buying for the Louvre museum. save
S1S,SOO for a Greek antique. a king
serpent stella from the metropolis of
Abydos.
The commerce Of the countries
fronting on the scene OF the war in
the far East amounts to about $500.
100000 year. Of which the United
Oh ;r{l
100000.
Last year the state of Rhode Island
received $4,000 rental for the use of
oyster-planting rights in Narragan-
sett bay, which it refuses to sell to
private parties. The value is increas-
ing rapidly
The oil from the germ of a kernel
of corn is worth 3 cents a pound.
while the starch with which the ker.
mel is filled is worth but IL, cents
n pound. The auscleforming pro-
TEN is in the hull.
Bees ventilate their hives and keen
the air pure by having a sanitary
squad beat the air into motion with
tner wings after the manner of our
oyn electric fans This ventilating
There are now in operation in japan
46 spinning mills. with $50 $50 spin-
dies. These mills turned cut 2G2 224
hundredweight of yarn last November
an Increase OF 1865 hundredwoight
over the same time the previous year
Transparent umbrellas are a late
novelty il, London. The substance Of
which they are made has the color OF
ivory. and its constitution is "A secret
OF the inventor. Collisions are Thus
rendered unlikely.
The frequent discovery Of new die.
mond mines in the Transvaal and
Orange river colony is resulting in
important orders being placed with
British manufacturers for diamond.
washing machinery.
Spain now purchases from the
United States So. 500 600 worth OF
goods n year. an increase of 80 per
cent. since 1898 American ice cream
1reozers and rubber oycrshoes are
seen in all Spanish villages.
japanese laborers 10 the number Of
800 are 10 be imported 10 work in the
Mexican copper mines in an attempt 10
solve the labor problem The men are
10 be paid $3.50 day and are under
contract for three years.
V. NJ Doolin. Of Etna Ky has de.
posted Tor transmission 10 the Worlds
fair curiosity Of much interest. II is
n block taken from beechtree on
RockcastIe river some % years ago In
which is imbcdded Ceer's horn
II is stated that over 200 900 tons
a dust elected from the Soufriere vol.
cano In 81 Vincent have fallen on the
Island n Barbados The dust. con.
traTy TO expectation. has been found
60 have no fertiizing value.
The dowager empress o. China en-
joys tho distinction. rare among Chi.
nese women. Il being ,hle 10 read