The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-01-12
TUESDAY. JANUARY IL, 1887.

TUESDAY. JANUARY IL, 1887.
EIGHT PAGES.
g AN exchange asks if the Queen is going
4 10 ab6icate. We don't know, therefore
can't say.
Notwithstanding the situation in
crna, there seems to be no lack of
81 Havana cigars.
Convict labor was abolished In the
New York penitentinry, at Sing Sing
1. the LIST of January.
isssls The Governor of Michigan warns
members of the Legislature against
M paid lobbyists who infest our halls"
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IA bill has been introduced in both
houses of the New York General Assem-.
4 bly, to reduce the price of gas to as cents
per thousand.
The Hon. Claud Matthews. in retlr-
B Ing from the Governorship of Indiana,
strongly urges the adoption OF compul-
sEsory education
Goxernor Hastings, OF Pennsylvania,
rays the State troops must pay their
Town expenses if they go to the Presl-
Ssdential inauguration
The Pittsburg News thinks that when
q 5loyely woman stoops to folly and wears
so monster hat at shows it's just TO give
herself a Jolly and draw attention 10 her
clothes,
"a Philadelphia Judge says that third
OF the criminal business In his court
\ grows out of the bicycle trade, and is
s surprised to see so many persons 'led
q stray by the bicycle"
New Jersey man says he has per-
xected plan for doing away with all
funneccessary and superfiuous noise
+ Congress should be equipped with the
i Device with the utmost dispatch.
The Lynchburg Advance says that OF
$50 American citizens residing in Pal
estine, 43s are Russian Hebrews. who
only stopped long enough in the United
States to take out American papers and
q passports.
~ 1T 1t Is true, says the WASHINGTON
SSPost. that the wife of the King of the
ssE s-annlbal Islands is a. Tende,loin girl,
the natives will find her too. tough for
table use. He should have married one
II of the Sirloin sisters.
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s Chicago's drinking water from the fake
"a so bad that the Board of Health has
threatened to cut It off from the public
schools IL the Board of Education does
not quickly take measures to filter or
purify it.
"A dispatch from Cleveland says that
Mark Hanna is troubled with insomnia,
sswh ereupon the Chicago Times Herald
deserves that he always has been pretty
yide-awake but heretofore his lnsom-
mia has troubled others more than 1t has
himself.
The Spanish Ministry is waking I'D 10
81 ne fac that the European powers have
Iss troub!es Of their own, without getting
& Inixsd up in any affairs regarding the
\ StsiaSid which ncstles under the shoulder
ef me %orth american continent. OBJ
s'ef$fs q Chicago exchange.
II s3nEress Charles A. Boutclle. of
q nc, Indignantly denies the assertion
Ssst2, " ash'ngton paper that he is IAN
sasseHed candidate" for seat in Presi-
i; tistBs s,ekiniey's Cabinet, and says that
g s. he scsiI conceive nothing more unseemly
" 81 5o or any person to take part In a
e stFSs..sle for such a position.
str.kes the average mind that the
es eet CT microbes and bacilli is being
sss5 little overdone, notes the New
gs2ssreans States. The Kansas Legisla-
f iass mas repealed the law requiring
sssaias rsners to kiss the Bible when being
ss5ssssA INTO Office. on the ground that
kessls diaeAse may De communicated.