While the French are largely increasing their military establishment, the following clipping from an exchange shows that the Prussians arc not asleep :—" The Prussians are fortifying Metz with enormous cannons of steel from Krupp's manufactory at Essen. They are said to be of the same calibre as those of Mont Valerien during the war. They are also enlarging Strasburg, so that, instead of ninety thousand, it can contain two hundred thousand. They are, also, making a canal parallel with the Rhine, and an enormous basin for ships coming from Mannheim and the North Sea." Some time ago there appeared in the papers the announcement of the marriage of a Mr Day to a Miss Week. The groomsman was guilty of the following verse on the subject:— A Day is gained, a Week is lost, Yet time must not complain; There'll soon bo little Days enough. To make a Week again.
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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 985, 5 July 1872, Page 3
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