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JOTIINGS & GLEANINGS. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY TO RETIRE. To-Day learns from" what should be a reliable source" that the Archbishop of Canterbury is likely to retire from his distinguished position before long. Dr. Temple's health has been failing him for some considerable time now, and he is beginning to feel the strain of the Primacy very severely indeed. I understand that he has already privately intimated his wish to the Government to lay down the burden of office, but in diference to the wishes of the Premier, who is by no means anxious to lose the services of the Archbishop until the Education Bill is over and done with, he will retain his post for some few months longer, but whenever he retires Mr. Balfour is likely to experience no little difficulty in filling his place from the present bench of Bishops. Strangely enough, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in this country. Cardinal Vaughan, is also at the present time finding the strain on his health more than he can stand, and another assistant Bishop is likely to be appointed immediately to take much work off the Cardinal's shoulders. A YOUTHFUL INVENTOR. In the November number of Cassell'it Magazine an article on Edison, the Great Inventor," is included. Details are given of his personal history :From his earliest days says, the writer, Edison was always an experimenter. On the train on which be sold newspapers he persuaded the guard to permit him to use an empty portion ef the baggage van for chemical experiments. All went well until one day a bit of phosphorous accidentally dropped on the floor. The peculiarity of phosphorous is that it ignites on mere contact with the atmosphere. Though the car was not set on fire, the guard became very angry at Edison's experiment, and threw all his bottles and jars from the car, at the same time lifting the boy up by both his ears. So severe was this punishment that it broke both ear-drums, and Edison became, in consequence, deaf for life. Not discouraged by this disaster, Edison walked about forty miles to the next station, obtained chemicals, and started work in the basement of a house. He was interested in electricity, and, with a companion, stretched a crude wire from his father's house to a neighbouring street. 'rhe wire was insulated with old bits of broken bottle, and the poles had been used for the purpose of hanging clothe>. Edison had some vague ideas at the time of dymanic electricity. He had been reading Faraday and other physicists. That his ideas were not the clearest, however, may be judged from the fact that the boy Edison and his companion tried to obtain an electric current for operating their dynamos by rubbing two large ca.ts with great vigour. Edison has little to say concerning the success of this experiment, but he has given an amusing account of the reception the boys received from the angry animals. THE GERMAN REGIMENTAL OFFICER. Of the regimental officer the most marked feature is his extraordinary earnestness. I speak as a fool, (or as an Englishman, speaking of the profession of arms, which is the same thing. He too, is in business, and whether on manoeuvres or pottering about amongst his silent stubby company in barracks, very much on business. He appears slow, yet it is the slowness of a lexicographer—thorough, searching, industrious. His pottering has no vagueness in it, but rather an intensity of method which would probably Supply the place of regulations even if he were not governed by so many and those so stringent. An Englishman again, might wish him a trifle more bonhomie; for he cannot" frivole," cannot the German officer his uniform, of which he is as proud as Punch, precludes that. He is always a little stiff, a little solemn, a little sad. Even in a. cafe he must keep a wary and respectful eye upon superior rank refreshing itself at the next table; and even if that be empty, a glance downward at his brass buttons and his handsome grey cloak freezes at once his eye, which was beginning perhaps to lighten a little at the cheerfulness and chatter of the cafe around him. But he is true metal, and the great eight million man-power engine to which he belongs loses aothing of its efficiency through him; nor of its dignity, which, considering his life in uniform, in restaurant and public garden, is little short of a marvel.—Blackwood's Magazine. THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF A FILIPINO PATRIOT. Jose obtained the best education that his native land could afford but in 1882, shortly after completing his twentieth year, he was sfint to Madrid, there to study for the profession of medicine. At the Spanish capital he speedily distinguished himself—taking his degrees, as a doctor of medicine and aa a licentiate of phil- osophic literature, with ease and credit. These preliminaries accomplished, Jose travelled extensively in Europe—spending periods of various lengths in Paris, Berlin, Brussels, London and Rome, making long tours among the lakes and mountains of Switzerland and in the historic valley of the Rhine. By virture of his birth be was bilingual from infancy, speaking Spanish and his native Tagal as a matter of course. Ere ever he set foot in Europe he was already well grounded in the classics, and had also acquired a considerable knowledge of the Japanese language and literature. At Madrid he perfected his acquaintance with Latin and Greek, and picked up a certain amount of Hebrew. After taking his degrees he quickly mastered French, German, English, and Italian. He feasted with insatiable appetite and delight upon the glorious literatures thus thrown open to him; and that he did not content himself with a mere smattering knowledge of these tongues is proved by the fact that the treatise on the Tagal language, with the composition of which he afterwards solaced his captivity, was written in English—unquestionably the most difficult of the Baodern forms of speech which he had acquired. -From" The Story of Jose Rizal, the Filipino," by Hugh Clifford, C.M.G., in Blackwood's Maga- zine for November, 1902. ELECTEUCITT IN THE KITCHEN. The very latest application of electricity is to cooking. M. Moissau, of Paris, has been making experiments in raising heat by electricity. He has succeeded in inventing an electric crucible in which very great 11":ü is generated, and the Jaogfc intractable substances that hitherto had defied analysis, are driven off into vapour; but more moderate heat can also be obtained for ordinary purposes. An electric oven has been invented, in which electricity both turns the spit and roasts the joint. The fireplace has been turned into a small electric furnace, from which the heat radiates just the same as if it were coal- fire, Vessels have also been made for cooking purposes, with an outer and an inner skin, the interval between the two skins being filled with a white metal which is heated by a current elec- tricity. In this way water can be boiled and food cooked. There are three degrees of heat according to the will of the attendant. The vessels are provided with binding screws that connect them with the current in a moment. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this invention. There is hope for scientific cookery under the conditions of the coming time! The housewife's labours will be lightened, and her husband's temper will remain serene. Al- ready the applications of electricity as a heat- producer are numerous, and they are increasing every day. Among the first so to use it were tailors, who now employ it to heat their irons.- Chambers Journal. 4 ——

PROPOSED COAL BORING AT MARCHWIEL.

PRESENTATION AT CHIRK.

NORTH WALES ASSIZES.

COLLIERS' DISPUTE AT RUABON.

CHIRK RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL.

WALES AND THE EDUCATION BILL.

NORTH WALES SUMMER SCHOOL…

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