The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-12-28

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1897.
EIGHT PAGES.
The War DEPARTMENT. is pushing the
question OF relief for the prospcctors in
the Yukon country,
The Boston Globe does hot think the
present Boston 5 o'clock tea is any
thing like as big a thing as the original
Boston tea party.
According to the New York Sun, the
Brooklyn ~pqstofice yielded n net profit
to the United States Governmeat last
year of more than s25O, 600.
Is The proposed reduction of wages in
the New England cotton mills affects
not less than $4,000 operatives. Their
II average wage Is, only IS week.
The Virginian acknowledges the re-
h'P tiC itIpauSiHhii ItcCOIu u M
manac for 1898. It is very complete,
full of valuable statistical matter-com-
mercial, polittcaL. domestic and sport
dng.
1t Is said that Mr.. Foraker made n
few vivid remarks when Mr.. Hobart re-
quested HIM to send word to lis Ohio
friends to heel for Hanna. It seems
that both Mr., Foraker and his friends
are ON a different tack.
The Acknowledgements and State SUI
p~erintendent Of Public obstruction CT
Kansas decided that the 200 school
houses in the depopuiated districts in
THE western part of the state nay be
sold at public auction.
i
IN order TO stop the practice OF nlrt-
ing with comm rcial. travellers an Ohio
village Council has decreedsthat no girl
Shall be allowed to loiterln the vicinity
o the railroad station unless she can
produce n railroad ticket.
Southern competition may affect the
cotton workers of lowell; but it does
NOT helr The matter to lay down and
,bemoan fate. Brace up! Our cotton
workers have the skill and machinery
end can successfully compete with aCly
competition. says the Lowell News.
There have been two hundred cases
of smallpox among the negroes of At
qanta, Ga, and the disease has made its
/ appearances in h suburbs OF the city.
/; 1n5the little town OF Mansncs!tr, near
Atlanta, two colleges have been closed
because of the spread Of the disease.
Those stern and resolute Congress
men who are going 10 alb ,lish civil GER
/ vice reform next month might get in n
little good preliminary pra .tice during
5dhe holidays by taking turns for an
hour or SO: every morning in butt!ng
their heads against the Washington
monument.
1t Is gratifying to note the opinion of
the experts that pound for pound the
peanut has a food value equal TO that
of beefsteak, and that ten cents wortl,
of peanuts furnishes more actual nutri-
ntsnt than: ten cents worth Of any
other thing that the po2r eat except
veal, observes the Boston Herald.
}iSt+I#, 49,
According to the Lancaster }(Pa.) Elk
alniner a woman's club has been formed
In Ponca City, o. II the rules of which
prescribe that the candidate must re-
main single, make q Verbatim report IL
open meeting or every proposal of mar.
rage received, learn how to smoke
cigarettes, write q poem or story every
month. perfect herself in pistol prac-
tce and learn fencing and boxing.
ed!tcn OF the Times-Unfon OF Jackson
vile. Ella, is olts of the hands9mest
and most elaborate newspaper publica-
asens ever printed # contains sixty
teur pages splandidly illustrated. set
off with Ia very beeaapuful c0lored IL
iugtrated cover. Altogether y Is q rare
!asie. rsfteetfng b~egpeatest credit cn
the enterpriseiAnn progressive spirit Of
StAe management s0fsthe Timcs-Undon.