The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-08-05

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8. 1896.
EIGHT PAGES.
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r An exchange says thu; m&n begins life
helpless. Yes. end some OF them live and
de helpless.
In Paris every house has concierge"
( IN London people use latch-key to open
4 the etreet door with.
"a. Naquet, a French writer, says ozone
exists in fields and woods and wherever
there Is active vegetation.
The New York Sun, which supported
Ben Butler for President ana is now sup
porting Mckinley, IS using AL rs powers
OF persuasion to induce Boiling Demo
Gratis TO vote for Mckinley.
Cecil Rhodes and the British South
Africa Company a:e 10 be subjected to
i Investigation by Parliamentary COM
u
their conspiracy against the South Afr!-
can Republic.
"a German newspaper contains the fol-
lowing advertisements by an enterprs.as
my taploca contains anything injurious
/ to health Will have three boxes of Il sent
to him free of charge"
s The Republicans, fearful of the defeat
of Mckinley. are already calculating how
! 20 carry the next House OF Representa-
tRes against silver. They forget that IL
Bryan is elected the tail will go with
the hide, says the Augusta Chronicle.
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IL Hung Chang, at the banquet given
him by the Electro-Technical Socioty In
Berlin, consumed two bottles OF cham
payne and a part OF the taird within two
hours and went away so sober that those
present concluded that he was not Who'll
: ly unaccustcmed to the ways of the
Western world.
The exports OF bicycles for the fiscal
year 1S94-95 reached the figure of 81 500,-
900, while for 1886 they showed a gain of
Sc per cent. AS showing how such ex-
ports are increasing, IN the single month
of June. 1896, s5l5,79S worth of American
bicycles were sent abroad to all parts of
the world. This is ct the rate of $1,000
1000 a year.
Astronomers are looking for Il big me-
steoric display on the 10th Of August. The
slWilmington IN. CO Star informs the
public that this has no connection with
Aoratorical display which is expected in
( Madison Square Garden, New York, two
days later. when William Jennings l8ry-
ian will be officially notified of his nomi-
nation.
9 The Nashville American says that the
Eohdity of the South Will be maintain ed
and strengthened. Democrats of the
South have just cause to fear Republi-
cams and knowthat their State and home
government are in danger If the admin
sstraltion and Congress are dominated
by syndicate policies engineered by Mark
Hanna.
In the Presidential campaign now soon
80 '~A'Sh ~ <liluSIIIS 10 IS3u the names
applied to the different political parties.
I Tie Boston Herald says: "Popocracy
( PoDocrat, Demopopocracy, Demopopo-
scrat, Argentoman:ac, Argentomania, Six
teen-to-Oner and Goldogarchy are the
4 latest words that have cropped up for
the dictionary compiler to attend to, and
azhe end is not yet"
The Bulletin of the North Carolina
Hoard of Health, under the head of
Aortuary Report for June" says the
Charlotte Observer, shows the death rate
IN Charlotte for that month to have been
Job per LOCO Of the population. In Ashe-
willie 1t was ESQ; Raleigh, 2O1; Whining
ton. IA; Winston. 2S.s. etc. The highest
death rate reported was $50 at Jackson
ne. and the lowest, s.s. at Weldon,