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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 74, 1 December 1887, Page 2

Orders/are about to be issued from the War Office for a further reduction of the British forces in Egypt, and with that object it is understood that the only cavalry regiment in G-eneral Stephenson’s command—the 20th Hussars—will shortly embark for England. The New York Herald, speaking of the Germans at Apia, says : —“ The Great Powers of Europe have a queer method of acquiring new territory It is the dip’om-tic method, with a man- f-war accompanin ent. “ Frankenstein.” that sombre tale by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, which terrorised a bvgone generation, will be the subject of a Christ ma* burlesque at the Gaiety, London. ‘•Johnny,” sail the minister, rather severely, “do you chew tobacco ?” “ Yes, sir,” wa* the reply; “ but I’m clean out just now. Jimmy Brown’s got some, though.” Parsons, the Greek scholar, could repeat Milton’s ” Paradise Lost ” backwards.