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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 72, 26 November 1887, Page 3

The public debt of America was decreased about five million dollars in August, The official tests of the swords and bayonets served ont to the Monmouth Engineer Militia has just been completed, with the result that 17J per cent have been condemned as useless. It always sounds pretty to Bay “the sun sunk beneath the Western horizon,*’ but a momen’ts reflection shows that it is about the only horizon it could sink beneath under the circumstances. When he feels like sinking he always selects the western horizon. A young lady requested Bismarck to write a few lines for her, and he wrote: “ Beware, my child, of building castles in the air, for they are buildings which we erect so easily, yet they are the most difficult to demolish.” Frascuelo, the bull fighter, is to get £4OOO for a short series of performances in Mexico.