Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1905-01-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

year
An open box of fresh lime placed in
damp cellar makes the air purer and
drier
In Formosa n man must have a
license before he is allowed to smoke
opium.
Last years shipments of oranges
from California were the largest ever
reported.
Moscow asylum authorities are ex.
perimentins on a hypnotic cure for
alcoholism.
The ground value of the city of Ber-
lin is said to be worth twice what it
was in 1887.
Bolivia and Siam are the only civil
lied or semi-civiized powers without
national debt
Mexico stands at the head Of the
Spanish-American countries in the
matter of letters.
Russia has per capita investment
in industrial enterprises of 81 while
The United States has S125.
The United States has 1887 Sun
day-schools. or more than half the
Number of the entire world.
When an unmarried woman dies in
Brazil the coffin, hearse and livery OF
tie coachman are all scarlet.
A man won a smoking contest in
Paris by keeping a cigar alight for
two hours and twenty-five minutes.
St Moritz, in Switzerland, has the
biggest toboggan slide in the world
II is three-quarters of a mile long.
London fireworks firm has re-
ceived hundreds of orders from per-
sons DESTROYS of celebrating the fall
OF Port Arthur"
Nineteen competitors took part in a
race in Paris for men with wooden
legs. The winner did a mile and a
half in IL minutes.
The funeral OF a young girl. who
died after less than two days illness
OF diphtheria, was held at Woodsville.
n. H., by telephone.
Judge John j. Jackson. of the north
ern district of West Virginia, still dis
charges his judicial duties, although
over so years of age.
Nearly 100000 barrels of oil were
produced in the acknowledgements
field during the year 1904, nearly twice
the output of the previous year.
Cuban honey is shipped to Germany.
the United States, France and other
countries. The amount gathered in
1904 exceeded 5000 900 in value.
According TO the California Fruit
grower, California in the year 1904
produced 165,000,000 pounds of prunes
and l2O,OOO,0O0 pounds OF raisins
A striped bass three feet six inches
in length and weighing 25Is pounds
was caught in Russian river, Califor
MIA. recently. 1t took several hours to
land him.
Turk from Smyrna has applied
Tor membership TO the New York stock
exchange. He is very rich and a
heavy dealer in cotton in Asia Minor
and Egypt.
Ii is estimated that to collect one
pound of honey from clover 81 900 900
heads of clover must be deprived of
nectar, and 3.750,OOO visits from bees
must be made.
postal curiosity is the fact that
one of the smallest countries in the
world. San Salvador, has issued the
enormous number of 405 different
postage stamps.
Nearly 40 per cent. more women are
working this year at mems labor than
worked ten years ago: while the in.
crease of male workers is only a trife
over 20 per cent.
Alabama planters are being urged
by banking interests TO grow more
grain and potatoes, thus reducing the
cotton acreage and preventing low
prices for the staple.
An investigation by Konradi has
shown that the anthrax bacillus NAV
survive in water for three and a half
years and the typhoid bacillus for
more than 800 days.
Outside the polar regions there re.
mains unexplored, it is claimed. about
one-fiftieth Of the land surface Of the
globe. Fifteen years ago the unknown
portions were about one eighth Of the
earth's total.
Garfield county. California. contrib.
uted S270OO0 worth Of potatoes TO the
agricultural wealth Of The centennial
state for 1904. Fifteen hundred car.
loads is the estimate Of the potato crop
for that county.
California has law against tho
docking Of horses tails. The first ar.
rest under II has just been made. i'm
the person Of veterinary surgeon.
lie may be fined 500 or imprisoned
for six months.
BY a recent amendment 10 the law
taxing travelling statesmen in the state
81 Tabasco MEXICO. all representatives.
81 foreign business houses win have
30 pay license Zee Of $40. and those
Of local business men s..
There are more counties in the Unit
cd STATE s named for Washington than
for any other man The capital
state and two cities exceeding 10000
jn population bear his name
Roast swan was a holiday dish in