The Swansea Gazette and Daily Shipping Register

South Dock ——o 1 June 23 a,m Michail Ontchoukoff s 1352, Harboe, Campbel- town Smaragd s 238 Linddtuer, Cherbouig Edwin 126 Prettyman, Treport June! p.m. Russland s 601 Bokman, Saudsvall Sunlight s 227 l^awson, Liverpool Truthful s 2*0 Williams, Manchester Abertawe s 8)5 Liifht, Sables Kingsley s 342 Stephenson, Rouen June 24 a.Ill Wyre 57 Macken, Anuagas. on Result 88 Incleden, Sandwich Margaret Garton 52 Maddrell, Coik Alsace 4ti Kerisit, Quimper Northern s i¡.;ht fil Lynch, Annagagaon Elma 119 Waldren, Campbeltown Spencer 6J FnlRes, BallinacurrR Printernps 117 Josse, Pornic Sylph 31 Fowler, Bideford Anne 88, Jones, We topoint G. G. M. 121 Rio, Redon Reussite !i4 Holland, Quimper Tweed s 498 M'Connell, Glasgow June 24 p in Rap s 405 Gram, Rotterdam Cumberland s 158 Hughan Dnblin June 25 a,-a Sigurd s 804 Skogland, Marseilles Florrie 78 Si tu man, St Valery Zenitha 195 Jensen, Kalm ir A lies 80 Cann, Medina Mills Mary Sinclair 91 Linden. < hariestown June 26 p.m Agnes Ellen s 99 Richard-, Belfast Jane 2(5 a.m Et-peranza 77 Feiroli, W xford Jas W Fisher 153 Garrett, Guernsey Repertor s 95 Ccok, Mistley GuKtav Boirel s 700 Cronberg, Nantes Findhorn s 461 He Glasgow Anne 79 Cavan, Morlaix Talbot s 2eO Owens, Liverpool June 27 a.m Fraternity s 289, Found, Roneu Bouganvillj 1981, Le Teste, Portland June 27 p.m Nikita 87 Keat, Treport June 2S a.m Nil June 28 p in Oliver 67 Silvey, Schull Velocity s 62 Bullock, lifracomhe June 29 a m Charles Pnd Ellen 130 Hughes, Wells Lillebonne s 508 M'Pherson, Havre

I Prince of Wales Dock. June 23 a.m. Sorato s 2966 Stevenson, Liverpool line 23 p. 111 Automaat s 646, Barends, Rotterdam Electra 8 2i8 Vaughan, Caen Elpidoforos s 1488 Benicos, Ancona Val de Travers s 275, Boyd, Treport Wood field s 2306 Booty man Santos &c City of Cadiz s 463 Davifeon, Hamburg June 24 a m City of Hamburg s 686 Kirwain, Hamburg Garnet s 1C04 Rattery, Leghorn June 24 p.m Wladimir Xawin s 1295 Corneliousen Halifax Spring s 562 Seigwarth, Archangel Queen Amelia s 2782 Harris, New York Porthcawl s 929 Williams, Boulogne Jane 45 a.m Lycidas s 321, GorJey, Rouen Wells City s 1186 Crinks, New York City of Belfast s 522 Kelly, Hamburg G Player s 242 Geo-ge, Rouen June 25 p m Daibeatt e s 819 Andersen, La Rochelle Envetmeu s 378 Fife, Caen and Treport Sagamore s 132^ Voa", Genoa &c Tassos 1120 Watkins, Rotterdam Madêleine s 561, Esnol, Rouen June 26 p m Buffalo s 89 Little, Port Talbot Priam « 290a, Lewis, Hankow via Liverpool Kaisow s 2529, Steele, Yokohama via B'rknhead Generoso s 1665 Calderone, Genoa Mount Park s 5974Snnth, Newport Veghtstroom s 829 Vos. Amsterdam June 27 a.m Raloo s 365 M'Connell, Rouen Maywood s 478 Norrie, Rouen Ville du Havre 3271 Duchesne, Liverpool Lutece s 739 Jacq, Rouen Malachite a 311 M'Donald, Nantes Echo s 569 Babb, Stettin June 27 p.m HofJing s 477 Jonsson, Helsingfors June 28 a.m Nil June 28 p.m Thetis s 219 Young, Bordeaux June 29 a.m Surrey s 465 Jones, Alicante For later Sailings see page 2

An Architect's "Carte BliincW An immense sum of money was xpeat by the late Lord Bute on the restoration and partial modernisation of Cardiff Castle tinder the skilful direction of the architeot Burgess, who had practically carte blanche there for some years. Burgess lavished all his fanciful genius on the great oloek tower and the suite of pri- vate rooms contained in it, including the summer and winter smoking-rooms," with their frescoed walls, elaborately tiled floors, and vaulted ceilings painted with celestial symbols. He designed also the noble staircase with its marble columns and steps of rose-coloured granite, and the banqueting-hall with its wainscoting of carved walnut, above whioh is frescoed the life of Robert, Duke of Normandy. who died after twenty-six years' confinement in "Robert's Tower" hard by. The private oratory of the castle is a transformation of the dressing-room where the second Marquis died in 1848, and is a gem in its way. It is lined throughout witb costly marbles, diapered with enamelled shields; on the walls are pictured the healing miracles of the Gospel, and the altar represents the tomb of Christ, outside which are two exquis- itely modelled bronze figures of sleeping Roma* soldiers. The home park, which stretches for a long distance behind the castle, is beautifully undulated and richly wooded; and walking in it on a summer's evening one may hear the sweet distant chime from Llandaff Cathedral, and never dream that one is within a few hun- dred yards of the great grimy eoaL-eapital af Wales.

t WfO WAS tIlY W AN: FIING JEW1 the story of the Wandering Jew is the 00* game of a legend of whicli many nations have their own particular version. According to the Greek tradition, Aristeas, a poet, continued to appear and disappe&L Jternately for above 400 Kirs, and visited all the nations of the earth, e German story is that John Buttadarns waa Been in Antwerp in the thirteenth century, again fal the fifteenth, and again in the sixteenth, last of all appearing in Brussels in 1774. The Frepeh Say that Isaac Lakedion is the Wandering Jew. The Italians, that he is ^Salathiel ben Sadi. There Are three Jewish versions of the story. One is that Cartaphilos, the doorkeeyer of the Judg Blent Hall in the service of Pontius Pilate, struck our Lord as he led him forth, and that the latter bade him Tarry till I come." The ather two Jewish •lions are that a cobblet aamed Ahasuerus nehaved rudely to our Lord and was condemned to lifelong wandering. Th* earliest record of the Wandering Jew is in the hook of the Chronicles of the Abbey of St, Albans, copied and continued by Matthew Part In the year 1228. It is held by some that, it is symbolical of the Jewish race, condemned te Wander over the face of the earth. 0

RUSSIA'S VAST FORESTS. Very nearly two-fifths of the surface of Russia ht Europe it, covered with woods and forests. In fact, the Russian forests are so great, in extent that they almost equal the entire united area of Western Europe, including- Austria-Hungary, Germany, Switzerland. Belgium, Italy, France, and Spain. Among lSur<>pean countries, next to Raswa, Austria-Hungary is the richest in forestd. -+-

ONE BP SIS OF LEARNING. "The Africans," said an ethnologist, ''are ftlaat people for proverbs. I collected among the Mpongw<s tribe recently a multitude of wiaesawa "Almost,' say the Mpon^e people, 1 bring* BOthinj; into the nouw. When the fox dies no ncn weeps.' People think a poor man is not as clever at a rich one, for why. they ask, would he stal poor if he were clever?' Don't ask the fish what people are dam, SCI land.' Anger draws arrows out of the quive*. patience, nuts out of thct bag.' 'Who marries a leautiful woman taket tenable into the kraal. **4 Hear both sides befon you judge. 4

LUCKY 13. On an American twenty-five rent piece there are thirteen 5tars, thirteen letters in the scroll held in the eagle's beak, thirteen feathers in each of the eagle s wings, thirteen tail feathers, thirteen parallel bars in the shield, thirteen hori- zontal bars, thir^ ien arrow-heads, thirteen leaves tffi the branch, and thirteen letters in the words quat ter doflar." o

SIMILES. The. following interesting lines contain all the stock comparisons most frequently used in con. loreation, arranged in euch a rnanaer as tft thyme: As wet ae a fish-as dry as a bone. As live as a bird—as de-ad as a stone, As plump as a partridge -ae poor as a ra, As strong as a honse- as weak as a c&t, As hard as a flint- as ooft as a mole, As white as a Hiy—<n black as a coal, As plain ae a pikestaff—as rough as a As light as a drum—as free as the air, 4.6 heavy as lead-as light as a feathet. As steady as. time—uncertain aa woatbeav As hot as a. oven-as cold as a frog, As gay as a iark-48 sick as a dog, As slow as the tortoise—ae swift as thfi win& As true aa the gospel-as false as mankind, Ae thin as a herring—as fat as a pig, As proud as a peacock—a« blithe as a grig. As savage as tigers- -as mild as a dove, As stiff as a poker-as limp as a glove, As blind as a bat-as deaf as a. post, As cool as a cucumber—as warm as a to&A As flat as a flounder—as round as a ball, As blunt as a hammer—as sharp aa an anf As red as a ferret—as safe as the stocks, As bold as a thief—ae sly as a fox, As straight as an arrow—as crook'd as a bow. As yellow as saffron-as black as a sloe, As brittle as glass-a.s tough as gristle. As neat as my nail—as clean a6 a whittle, As good as a feast—as bad ae a wftch, As light as is day—aa dark as is pitch, As brisk as a bee—as dull as an aas, As full as a tick—as solid as brass.

II ■■ A RACIAL JSPITOMF. writer in the Century referw to the queat mixture of races in Wisconsin. It has Bul, yarians and Flemings. It has an Indian popular lation of over 3,000. It is the greatest Welsh, Cornish, Norwegian, and German State. It has Icelanders with Minnesota, Bohemians with Iowa, and French, Fins. and Hollanders with Michigan. The oldest and only purely Hun- Eirian colony in America is on its soil, and the rgest colony ^of' Swiss. It has a native white element as old as the Knickerbockers, Mid even Bnglish-descended families who go Lack lit fSMS 11m Wisconsin soil.