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Show Short Holidays in Washington. Washington, December 22. To-day it was decided that in addition to closing the departments de-partments on Christmas and New Years, they would only be closed at noon on each of the days immediately preceding those holidays, and that contrary to the long established es-tablished custom, they would be open for business as usual in the interim. This course was adopted in view of the representations represen-tations that the business in several of the departments, notably the Treasury, is somewhat some-what in arrears, and might accumulate to serious proportions if the hours were shortened short-ened as usual. |