Identifier: norfolkvirginian00norf (find matches)
Title: The Norfolk Virginian's annual, for the year 1884
Year: 1883 (1880s)
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Publisher: Norfolk
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ountry where more attention has been paid to the improvement of the breeds of sheep, bothdomestic and foreign, or where more successhas been attained, than Great Britain. It is tobe sincerely hoped that the time has come whenAmerican farmers will take pride in fatteningsomething besides hogs, and insist upon havingthe best possible meats for their own tables, to the end that leanness and dyspepsia may notbe thrown at us as national characteristics. Lumbering is the third great industrial in-terest of the United States, following uponfiourand grist milling and iron working. Pennsyl-vania. Michigan, New Vork, Wisconsin, Ohioand Maine are the great lumber States, rankingin the order named ; they yield over one-halfthe production of the country. The annual cost of primary education foreach inhabitant of the United States, accordingto M. Donnat, is $2.18, and the annual cost forwar purposes for each inhabitant is $1.50. Inmost European countries the \var cost is about$4, to $1 for education.
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FRONTIER SERVICE, —F. O. C. Darley. The humblest village in whicli youf lot maybe cast has in it a little library which offers toyou and to your ciiildren a chance to sail the seaswith Columbus and discover new continents — achance to fight with Napoleon all the way fronithe fiery sands of the Syrian desert to the anni-hilating winter of Russian cold — a chance tolaugh with Dickens till the endless oddities ofhuman life open up before you an inexhaustiblesource of amusement. You can inaugurate re-formation with Luther and counter-reformationwith Loyola. You can join the crowds and hearPeter the Hermit preach his crusade ; enlist underthe banner of the cross; have a hand-to-handcombat with Saladdin himself; cleave the infidel to the chine, or get your own neck so dexterouslysevered liy his razor-like cimeter that you have toshake your head to believe it is actually off, andthen come home again, safe and sound, only toset out on a fresh voyage for Iceland, or helpWashington try t

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