The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-02-10

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WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY TO- 1897.
EIGHT PAGES
General 4Ager has unsheathed his
sword In defense of his war record.
Eighteen States are represented in the
Good Roads Congress now In session at
Orlando, Fla
Thirty years ago Berlin was smaller
than Philadelphia, ana now 1t Is larger
by half u million.
Mr.. Mark Hanna has decided that he
Will accept no place in Mr.. McKlnley's
Cabinet Just SO.
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The Spanish authorities eclare that tho
reforms offered 10 Cuba are wholly vol.
untarE on the mother country's part.
The Philadelphia Ledger says that It
looks as If Srain would have TO thrash
Cuba into accepting the reforms grant
"a her
Weylcr is permitting more spaniards
IN Cuba to grind sugar cane In the
meanwhile the Cubans are grinding
their teeth
The street railways in Baltimore car
ried over 5i,O00,0o0 passengers III 1896,
aud paid S243.0o0 in taxes for the sup
port OF the city's parks.
\ report comes from London that Sir
Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassa-
dor at Washington. will retire when the
arbitration treaty IS accepted.
The Baltimore Herald says that indi-
cations multiply that The Democratic
campaign in Maryland this year is to be
a German and anti German campaign.
5#s#E@5 s.. n.
The city Of Baltimore sold last week
A.453,3o0 RE per cent forty-year bonds
TO fund the city's floating debt, the
Ihird National Bank Of that city taking
the whole amount al 1851
Indiana may have three times as
many poets as Ohio, observes an eX-
change, but Ohio has more politicians
than Indiana has, and there IS more
money IN politics than in poetry
A dispatch from Norfolk SAYS that
there will be an enormous cabbage crop
TINS year. Thus. we find recompense
Tor the destruction Of the Cuban tobacco
helds says the Baltimore American.
"A Niles (Nfich ! girl &c ,,a,,;pr =, oro,
ton bet with her lover Of 1000 kisses.
Now, an exchange remarks, what d ca.
iamlty there would be II there was
mlscount, and the couple should have
TO so back of the returns.
The Fall River Globe Is Of the opinion
that the Manufacturers association
ought to furnish the advance agent of
prosperity with line Of samples of the
product Of the local mills and give him
q chahce TO work off their surplus stock
according TO the Omaha World He.-
AID. cities that gave Mckinley a plural
ny are now elccting Democratic officials
with 4 unanini;y that portends consid-
cradle dissatisfaction with the show SO
literally avertised by the advance /, gent
i3 a dispatch from Chicago says the ON
ployes Of the Illinois Steel company, a.
Joliet and Milwaukee, have received no.
y ice or cut iii wages o: 10 to 90 per
cant, Just when protective tariff adj
ministration is coming IN, too. What
are we TO thing Of a newspaper tina t
Z. peaches on its own pals in this manner?
4 asks the Washington Post
b A young woman in Virginia got out OF
a second-story window in her room and
4 walked three miles in her stocking feet
i In ;.e snow TO join a young man. They
e'oped to Ha gers town, Md, and were
carried. and The Baltimore Sun calls
] her "a brave young bride. Just so.
But why didn't she throw her shoes out
#of the window before getting on. ON the
y Anou. + the question.