Evening Express

LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL SERVICES. Monday, June 12.—Tours in F anthem, We will •ejoiee (Croft). Tuesday, June 13.-Blvey in A; hynn, 438. Wednesdav,Jnne H.-Smart in F; anthem, "llIess?d 'or ever" (Spohr). Thursday, June 15.—Cnlkin in B flat. hymn. 280. Friday, June 16.—JJogers in 1) anthem, 11 I will irise" (Crevghton ). Saturday," Joue 17.-AtLwood in F; anthem. "Not unto us, f.ord" (Aldrch).

THE HOTEL DE AIARL. The Hotel de Marl has acquired a great reputation in a very short time. The London papers, with all the cares and anxieties of the world continuously demand- ing attention from them, have given it fall and frequent mention. Religious and tem- perance organs have mourned it with great travail and sorrow, sporting journals have found in it matter for hilarious merriment, and newspapers devoted to the interests of I the licensed victualiers have watched its ups and downs with deep concern. Tem- perance reformers have fumed and fretted at its existence; the Cardiff stipendiary has twice declared its s constitution and its methods within the requirements of the law; even the House of Commons has heard the history of the Hotel de Marl rehearsed at question time with wonder and amazement. But the morrow of its greatest triumph has proved the hour of its temporary suppression. Looking at the case put forward by the police against the Hotel de Marl, after having had weeks to consider the best line for them to take, reckoning from the failure of their first prosecution, and having allowed the legal representative ¡! of the watch committee to take fall advan- tage of the developments shown by the evidence as the prosecution went on—look- ing at the ease in all this new light, the learned Cardiff stipendiary decided on Saturday that the queer institution was within the bounds of the law. From the legal standpoint, therefore, there is nothing o prevent the Hotel de Marl going on as it has done for several weeks past, until the Acts of Parliament therein made and provided are altered. It is true that late on Saturday night a notice was put up on the Grangetown marl pits announcing that the police had the authority of Lord WINDSOR to deal with any person drinkmg on the ground, and it is also true that the police were successful in striotly enforcing the prohibition. Let there, however, be no mistake. These incidents were only accidents. If Lord WINDSOR had not been disposed to exercise his territorial rights in this particular direction, the police I would have been as powerless to inter- fere yesterday as they have bsen from th.. outset. Up to the present the jaw. as interpreted by one of the ablest of iL- exponents, has nothing to say against any rij"iber of men meeting in the open air wherever they have the right to meet, subscribing the money with which to pur- chase supplies of ale from wholesale dealers, and, when obtained, distributing the liquor among themselves and their friends as they I think proper. It is quite true that the iipendiary a decision is to be appealed gainst, and it may of course, be reversed it, at any rate, that remains to be seen. l the meantime the judgment re- )f(ied in the matter of the Hotel de larl reduces Sunday Closing to an asurdity. There are innumerable spaces sattered over the country—moorlands, toases, marshes, commons, quarries, bill- )ps—suniciently near to great centres of opulation to make them most convenient )r Sunday driuking, where no kind of lterfereuca would be in the remotest degree kely to take place. There are such places, idependent of the Grangetown marl pits, djaeenfc to Cardiff. At Merthyr and Ponty- ridd and Newport and Swansea there are Jch pieces of land within quite easy ;aob, where, if anybody is so dis- osed, they may sit and drink all ay through without the slightest fear of sterruption from the owners or tenants, if ich there be. It is a foregone conclusion ilat as soon as this is realised there will be enumerable imitations of the Hotel de larl set up in Wales, unless the Sunday llosing Act is repealed. Men of a certain jmperament will insist upon enjoying unday drinking with all the greater zest nd relish because of a feeling that they are utwitting the law-makers and the officers f the law. It is no good railing against hat kind of spirit; in sffrite of every denun- iation from pulpit or platform the A act remains that it exists, and will °! ssert itself. Its assertion now that the Hotel a ie Marl has established the right of men to s, iegin a new al fresco club every Sunday is w ertain to be much more positive than titherto. The advocates of Sunday Closing n iannot complain if they are asked, in the ace of this probability, which they like p ►est—the limited opening of public-houses in Sunday, where decorum, decency, and II •estraint must be exercised, or ever-reeur- Jj ing and ever-multiplying varieties of the a Iotel de Marl, where men will be free to 13 [rink without any oheck at all, so long as hey keep from becoming drunk and disor- [1 lerly on the way home. Imagine the great r, rowda of men who are known to meet Sun- t! [ay by Sunday in certain well-known nountain quarries to play cards, throw v ip pigeons, and set dog3 harrying rats u etting up an institution of the pattern 0 If the Hotel de Marl in connection P vith these and many other primitive indul- j fences. Even from the most severely tem- a )erance and Puritan point of view a I] lecessarily well-conducted public-house, v )pen only for a few hours per day, is £ nfinicely to be preferred to an unregulated irinking rendezvous, subject to no regulations t )f hours, conduct, or management, 0 ================== i

3AD BOATING FATALITY NEAR i BRISTOL. J S A Lady and Two Gentlemen [ Drowned. rs A sad boating accident; occurred on Saturday f night at Cothani, ne»r Bristol, rt sult^nsr in the v ieatli of Leslie 1'earce, son of a we dlen mor- ? jhan; Miss Smith, of Clif'-on; >.nd is-uimel j Boggett. each about twenty yeirs of 1'earce t mil been np tho river all day, ami FJo?2-pit nr.d Vli«s Mflit.:i took a river wherry to fetch him ( :acli'. I lit* thir«l person a! epp.-d lot-* m.- t.mt c ciprized, and "11 wore drowned before assis> unce cou'd arrive. t unce cou'd arrive. [ s

8 \D ALPINE ACCIDENT. I A Brida! Couple Ps' cpitated a Distance of 900ft. l: A Renter's te'sgram fion Vo.ma says:—A t peculiarly sad Alpine accident was reported c in Sunday from the TyroL A brhhl coup!" 'rom Vk-nn* named finubrer, who were i staying at Alzen, noar Linz. stuilei to t iscond the Bucksteio, a neighbour- ng mountain. They bad climbed up t i considerable distance when by son e inis- <- ;lmiice they lost their footing, and both fell JI r icpUi of over 900 fe-t on to ti:o snow b?ne<ttl r.l>e lady was ohm Ted turning over und uvu l! several times in her tervibto descent. Theb >d;e.i t iave not yet been fnnnà, t r I

WORLD'S FAIR AT CHICAGO. i a I Valuable Lace Missing, t A Central Aru>vs telegram from New York on Sunday sjye A sensation was caused among the executive of the Chicago Exhibition by the 0 discovery that thirty pieces of exceptionally rich £ LAC, sent by tIK- Quoen of Jt-tly for exhibition, were missing. No clsie lists been obtained as to whether the property was purloined en rouie or since tho package reached Chicago, but the executive wiil have to boar the loss, amount!ng to a l uge sum.

SERIOUS COLLISION IN THE ¡ s CHANNEL. t: Tbe Central News Dover correspondent tele- t grnpiiss—At livo o'clock on Sunday morning, in c!e;ir, tine weather, a collision occurred between ¡ two st earners in the Downs, both being damatie'. I '1'tfe Newbiggln, of Newcastle, from Sunderland, had her bow smashed in, bllt was-*6l« to reach I Dover Harbour, Tho name of the oilier Bteamcr I is at present unknown, but she had cooiias ( aboard, and is believed to be the stfatn' r Dal- ( ai itia. of Glasgow, an Anchor liner of 2,000 tons, bound from Calcutta. to Plymouth, that vessel ( having passed Dov^r early on Sunday morning. I

A BRIGADE OF CAVALRY CURATES. I Thft Church of England I a< forced a mounted I ecclesiastical brigade, called C iTalry Curate?," t for the purpose of reaching outlying districts, which, under present conditions, are uecessarilj* < somewhat negJcctsd. The experiment is to be tried firet in the Nortli, In out-of-the-way dis- t tricts (says the Loudon ''Echo"), where tho popu- lation is scant and sparse, ftnall chapels of iron and other material will be constructed, in ^hich the services will he conducted by Cavalry t Curates," siippiie(i with lithe and strong ponies 1 for the pnrpoBC, who will not only preach in t half a d<z*n place1? on Sunday, but will arrange t to hold ga'ioping minis! rations during tha week t .1

MANUFACTLHKB, lloisforth, O tiers his Own Goods direct from the lootn, at Mill Prica", viz. :— Serges, Fancies, Cashtneren, Beiges, M( lion-, Mantle Cloths. Patterns sent frso on application. I Save all the intermediate prjh! Special lots of Dress Meltons, all shades, at 4d. per Tard. 1 Address: MANUFACTURER, HORSFORTH, NEAR LEEDS. E887 t -J"" 7' .p'

IR FANCY PORTRAIT GALLERY.—ALDERMAN LEWIS, &P,

THE; VETO BILL. The Great Demonstration. Interview with the Secretary. A representative of the National Interviewing 86ociation chatted with Mr, John Kempster, the rganising secretary, on the demonstration got p in Hyde Park to support the Direct Veto Bill, nd its possible effect upon the progress of the rovernment measure. "This demonstration," ho iid, is our great blow. We have been tri ed lith for years, for decade?, I might say. Year fter year we have been promis&d legislation to screase the scope of the liquor traffic: but othing has come of it, and now we are deter- ( lined that something shall be done. I should ( sLimate that abont a quarter of a million of ( aople would take part in the demonstration iu [yde Park. That is a pretty decent indication J liat the masses of I he country are in favour of lie legislative repression of the drink: raffic. There is a general idea throughout tie country thut we have had the worst of the } gitation. That is not true. When the Veto' j ■ill was first, introduced, tho brewing interest 1 rere immediately in arms. They held demon- trations all over the country. They posted atriotic placards calling upon the people to Bsi«t a great infringement upon their liberties ud, in fact, appeared to be carrying all before iiem. Hut there was nothing in it. The expla- ation was that they were first in the field. low, however, we have been at work, and our 7ork shows that the country generally is behind s. Just imagine what this demonstration j jeans. We have practically no support on this ccawion from the provinces. The railway com- < ,anies refused to run special trains; therefore, o a great extent, we have been obliged to con- ine our operations to London. And fnncy being bio to get a quarter of a. million of people to walk n procession as a protest against the present iquor monopoly and system. I think it is mar- rellous; and 1 tlunl:, also, that it shows the ountry means to see sotno effective check upon he present system. "There has been, you will say, an apparent sipse in tho a'iitation. For a few weeks sfter lie Bill was introduced nothing" else was heisrd If. Since (hen. however, the thing Ins fallen lat—that is, tJ cut ward appearances. But that a not so rnally. \Ve have never ceassd to work n opposition to the brewers and the reason ou have not heard so much of tlte agitatioll is hat. the papers have not continued to devote the pace to the subject that they did nt the start, iowever, wo are going ahead. This demons!ra— ion shows our strength and we do not mean to ee the Bill dropped without somebody hearing .bout it. Ton* demonstration, as a matter of act, is intended to show the Government that vo expect the Direct Veto Bill to be in the orefiont of their programme after the Home lulo Bill is disposed of. As matters look now, he Irish measure may occupy the remainder of he session. In that case we shftH expect the Tovernuient to cull an autumn sess'-on to pass ither urgent measures, and amongst them must. Ie the Direct Veto Biii. You see, wo have been HIt off so long that we do not, mean to be iliclved any longer. Time after time we huve jeen induced to give our votes for the Liberal )artv on the strength of their sympathy, and lothing ha- come of i'. But now we see our ivay cieir. The Liberal leaders recognise that ve are the backbone of the party. EVi-n such a :aut!"us politician as Lord Rosebery agrees that ho temperance people largely control their suc- ijgs in the elections and now that the mutter s a'imitted we me.m to use our strength. We iave called this demonstration to show lie Government that, we are not to be liflfld with; and the upsiiot, will bi hat, unless we can reiv upon the LUKHMI Tovernment, thn Liberal Government nted not ely upon us. I think I am entitled to speak as r> prcuieuUtive temperance man, and I say [(■finitely that, unless the Government see that he Veto Bill is carried, the chances nre that the euiperano'j plrlY will vote sgaiust them at the text general election. We aie not going tt) La nade fools of. We have giv;;n our vo:cs 'or years o the patty, and we want soniething in r--turn, .nd unless we get it "ur next ;v;ove wiil be to :p.ep the Liberals out "f power. You may take hat as the g^r.fral fecht)" of temperanca voters." Are the official Liberals helping you ni any vay it, this Hyde Park demonsiration '?" "No; wo expected their aid, but we did not :et it. I c.mnor say that we tiave had heir sympathy. Of course, it is only fair o suppose that they do not. desire t.) hold ■u-tj roseate hopes to the advocates of any naasure until they are sure of the Home Rule >il', but we have, leoeivcd no iiflp lr<~>m Uium in my way. Official Liberalism has ignored 11". Vearc, inei-ffore, working solely up JI1 our own it-resg'h. and I atn glad to say that we think that tienyth sufficient to win t.tie day. This denvui- tration will make it. plain to the Government hat, they cannot thrust, u* aside. Neither pay- nent of nietntters, Welsh Su-'pensorv B,li! riennial Pariiatuents, nor parieh coutiCUs arc, in nil- opinion, equal in importance to the teni- .erance quostion, and we have made up our mnd" to be no longer shelved. I am an out and .-nt Radical myself, but if tha Government do lot do their duty by thi, V.•> Bill I should have 10 hesitation at the nexi election in voting f-M the ipposing party. But we do not, think mattei s will ;ome to such a crisis. The Government must tnow our power, and I do not think they will jisappoi) t us this tinv. I believo the tempc- rance men of the country would put. their special question befoie party any day. t. So iar is the Bill itself is concerned, of coursa nanv of us do not agree with its details, nut we gratefully accept, the principle. It is the best liiiig that has bjen offered uA since the tempe- -ance question originated a parly. We are ihnost, all dead acaiost compensation. In fact, :lie last great demonstration held in Hyde Park was in "regard to tlllI famous compensation ;l«uso* of Mr. Goscheu's proposals. We do not, relieve in coiiipensation, because in our opinion :he vulue of a public-house is altogether in artificial value. Why, because a man las been lucky enough to secure a lieenc", should his house ba of more value than he house of his next door neighbour? It is, as 70U mnst 1.1011, quite an artificial value, duf to he chance of getting a hcence, and iu regard to 110 abolition of licenct-s the propiietor must ,ako the snme chances- The demonstration we organised for Hydo P-ok i, the biggest ever held n ilia temperance e ,use. So far as our brnnch irgantsations can say, the country is ttiarcufbiy tound over this question, and we me,1II to agitltte mtil we get what we wauf. If the Government, •annot introduce the Hill before August, which seems very probable, we .must, w dt, tuid our sup- lorters in Parliament will u=e their endeavours ;o have an autumn esss'ion. We don't object to Some Rule blocking the way, but wlien that, is settled tho Veto Bill must be sight in the very 'orefroofc of the Liberal programme. Otherwise there wiil be trouble." r-/ -,t. -y'' ¡:

IN THE GRASP OF A BOA <; CONSTRICTOR. J a Exciting Scene in London, t Mr. Hanilyn, the beast, bird, and reptile im- C sorter, has just received a consignment of makes, among them being a huge boa con- strictor, asserted to ;.bc 21ft. in length. Some- iow, probably while being removed from its ravelling case to another prison, this reptile ] *ot loco on Friday, and a desperate struggle j. ;ook place before it could be restored to f ;aptiviiy. It got one man's hand in its mouih, ind seewd to be gradually absorbing 1] ;tie limb. Altogether five men were present, t including the unhappy fellow held captive by s ihe reptile, which made persistant and desperate I afforts to enfold one or other of them in its leadly embrace. By alert dodging the men were »ble to avoid this, while at the same time taking measures to rcscue thwir mate from the reptils's dutches. This they eventually accomplished by « 'astening a. cord round its neck and drawing it fight till it was half strangled and liberated the nan's arm from its capacious j tws. The suf- c ierer was hurried off to the nearest, hospital, r while the sn'dŒ was secured in a big box. ] )

I\STRONOMICAL JOTTINGS fOR JUNE. t j (By AHTHUXI MEE. F.R.A.S.) This month is at once favourable and un- i favourable for astronomical work. It is favour- I !Lbte by reason of this mildness and beauty of the x svenings which tempt the obseiverinto the open air; but, on the other hand, the glorious summer twilight is a, serious drawback to the examina- Lion of faint objects of whatever kind. With regard to the Sun, his altitude in summer, i carrying him far from the mists and undulations ] of the horizon almost to the zenith, places him { in a most fitvourable position for the t'descopist, and just at present, too, the occurrence of 1 numerous spots and other disturbances upon the glowing disk enhances the interest which must, always attach to tho most glorious celestial bony 1 with which we are acquainted. At tho 21st, i or thereab uts we have the longest day, when 1 the sun is only a little more than seven hours] below the horizon, and, indeed, the northern ( glow shows that in somewhat higher latitudes it would be practically day throughout the whole 24 hours. As a matter of fact, we in Britain 1 have no real night throughout, the month of ] June. The Moon is new on the 1411!, but her decreasing altitude at the time of the first quarter, when she is most interest- ing to the amateur telescopisfca, detracts somewhat from the pleasure of observing her in Junp, and she may be said, indeed, to bmuch more beautiful at this time from the artistic than the scientific standpoint. The render will scarcely fail to notice that in those months, when the SUII at noon is highest in the heavens, the full moon when crossing the meridian is low; st, and vice versa, thus giving us the great amount of moonlight when \\0 are most in need of it. The planetary heavens are disappoint- ingly bare this month. Saturn is now westering rapidly, and we shail Soon lose him and his beautiful ring-system till nijxt year. His alti- l.udo, too, is slowly decreasing, so that in Britain for several seasons to come both planet and ring will be studied under circumstances of growing atmospheric difficulty. Happify the same remark does not apply to Jupiter, which, though now a morning star, will before long again grace the evening heavens with his splendid golden disc. Those who have small telescopes wiil lie interested in the drawings of Situro, which are appearing just now in the" English Mechanic" and which afford bet ween them « very good idea of the general asped of the ringed plan; t. Naked eye ob- suiverd may test their sight by noting whether Saturn presmts on fine nights an elongated a-pflci. A friend of tho writer's whose Vision is very IwclI assures hi«c tint one fine night- [at lyho distinctly saw this, and on seeing the planet through my telescope and its finder he I adhered more strongly than ever to his state- men):. The other planets are for the purposes of the b?ginnt'fi invisible, but Venus will again ere longad u n th: era hoavtns as an e veningstar, and Mercury ti.ay inwards the end of the mouth be caught above tho VV.N.W. hor'ss >n.

HOW TO LIVE TWO HUNDRED YEARS. An Amerce 11 Presnriplion. The Ni,rtit American Keviow for June con- tains an interesting art.ic!>s by Mr. Win. Kinnell" on "The Fo-sibility of Living Two Hundred Years iri Av.-ta,,e Goat! This possibility (says tha writer) seems to many a wild sort of scientific dream. So di-i crossing the Atlantic by steam; so did conveying intelligence by electricity. Mr.Kinnear, alter stating the physio- logical causes of decay, proceeds to his remedy What we put into our mouths, lie says, is the important. thing. Almost everything we eat con- tains more or iesa of the elements for destroying life by means of calcareous salt". Cireful selec- tion, however, may unable us to avoid the worst. Earth salts abound in the cereals, and bread itself, though aeemingiy the motit innoeont of pdibies, gruatly assists in the reposition of calcareous matter in our Indies. Nitrogenous food abound. in this clement. Hence a diet made up of fruit principally is b.'st for people advancing in years, for the reason that, being deficient in mlrogen, litll ossific de- posits so much to ba dreaded are more likely to be suspended. Moderate eaters have in all cases a much better chance of loug life Illan those addicted to excesses of tbe table. Fruits, fish and poultry, and young mutton and ve.al con- tain less of the earthy salts than other article1' of food, and are therefore be j. fo'- people enu-rin; the vale of ve irs. lieef nu-d old mutton usually t.rp overcharged with salts-and should be avoided. Intending bicentenaries should study this formula :Avoid earth salts. Eat fruit, "ospeciaity juicy uncooked apples." And take daily two or three tumbhufuls ot dist illed water, with ten or til teen drops of phosphoric acid in each.

A SPOTLESS COMPLEXION.—Sulpholinc Lotion clears off ail imperfections in a few days. Prmpiee, Blemishes, Irritating Objectionable Appearances, Redness, Roughness, Tan, Uncoin- foitable Skin Disiigi-iret-aantg, entirely fade away, leaving a beutifui akin. Shilling bottle ot Sill. pholine every wlwue. MONDAY L'IVMR PH.IJS act direct upon the liver. They contain no mercury, are suitable lor ,.11 ages and climates, and without doubt are the best Pill for Biliousness, Liver Complaints, and llndigesfcson. "d in fcoxes Is., 2s. 6d.,and 4a. 6;i. post free, by the Proprietor, J. Aiunday,Chemist 1, High-street, Cardiff. E140, ",0' sea

WALES DAY BY DAY, m [)8a L»ndor» auui 111M 80 amxioM to te a¡ bm egiie to the Hadileal nweiing in Smiiwi cut tttfwt 8ft Saturday tbst 1a8 proposed kia- dir f. leg ——— he] Jne wocld not ttoink there was any dungtr ra1 a water famine judging from the fact that Th Saturday night a steady stream was 161 aing from the hydrant on the Cardiff Arms or ioket Ground. fig ha A. billiard ball picked up among the d<bris ea] the billiard-room of the Great Western th4 )tel after the fire was found to have been on it in two, and it presented the charred scs pearance of burnt wood. de Mr. Lascelles Carr has not felt the blow arly so much since he found that the fire 1 not destroy the lantern slides for his iture on Wednesday night. That lecture f j LI come off even if the Newport "Western be lil" office burnt down. „ cr( "Sir Ilussey Vivian," says the "West- d<? nster Gazette," "may still be seen in a W1 bher disconsolate state about the precincts the House in a kind of chrysalis stage, Tit peer's wings just unfolding, but his g juse of Commons self still surviving." In A little girl entered a village shop net r Fe itmarthen, and said that her father ha, l D 1t her for a dozen contractors, for which • e tendered the sum of 2d. What she '11 idly wanted was a dozen protectors for her bher's boots; but had she been in Cardiff Ar iring the building strike ahe could have. I .d the contractors for twopence. ri Last Easter at one of the neighbouring 'fl, urches of Swansea a draper was appointed xc iesmati. Last Sunday he was on duty, and e first to enter the sacred edifice was a At iy customer of his. His mind even then ust have been busily occupied in thinking Al ribbons, buttons, and calicoes, for he N andly approached the lady, saying, "What ( n I show you, ma'm ?" T'l "The gentleman who has for many years In jpt the Neath rain record" writes to say lat he is not in the least offended at the FI marks which appeared in this column of T; itarday's paper. He, however, takes ex- I iption to the term tin-can" applied to his At luging apparatus, inasmuch as it is made copper. He also ventures to suggest that B; ir correspondent "Daisy" does not use f ater for any other purpose than diluting is favourite beverage. jr, That ubiquitous North Wales corre- BI jondent who supplies Londoupapers with ^elsh news writes :—" A remarkable dis- 11 avery has been made at Carrog, near Llan- F( ollen. While a number of workmen were irting stones from the bed of the Hiver A lee they discovered tha remains of an ncient church, which was washed down by heavy flood 300 years ago. 1,Arge oak earns and interesting remains are now being iscovered, the river being very low. The dis- 3very is exciting great interest in North Vales." People who have been waiting to see Sir Edward Reed jump are getting impatient. ir ICdward is astonished and alarmed at the p; lould in which this immense Bill" is cast, 111 nd he is determined, so he says, to "see pc iat its surprisingly large provisions are not ;ill further injuriously enlarged during its rogress in committee." These are brave T< 'ords, but is it not about time Casks the in Pall Mall Gazette') that Sir Edward w iiould cease to inform the world that he is 1'1 bout to begin, and begin beginning ? )f A speaker at a Liberal meeting at Lan- Tj oreoti Friday night went in for a beautiful c; lixturo of metaphors. Hem-stcompared hi jord Swansea and his son to an old ox and a vi oung ox; then he compared Mr. Aubrey III rivian to a speaking pipe" through which !l( iOrd Swansea could make his wishes known o tho e'ectors from the dizzy heights of the cc louse of Peers; then he compared Lord tl lalisbury to a duck out of the water; and tn nally he said that Mr. Aubrey Vivian itl eflected the light of his father as the moon V eflects the light of the sun. gs A- On Saturday afternoon, as a heavily-laden Iv ins was passing the Angel, the wheels stuck ti a the loose stones just laid there. The 01 oor horses, goaded with the whip, pi ttempted in vain to advance, and it was itiful to note their struggles but, though he 'bus was laden with passengers, mostly 1I nen, not one attempted to alight and ease I tl be burden on the vehicle. At length half u dozen sailors who were passing noted the ) v 'osition of affairs, and (with sailor-like :iiidness) jumped forward, put their houlders to the wheels, and relieved the torses. The incident was as creditable to c he honest tars as it was the reverse to the C azy men on the 'bus. a P O Writing from Port Eynon Rectory, the a lev. W. Melland says :—" On reading the r tory of a dog which followed his master c nto a Herefordshire church, I was reminded v if a somewhat similar incident which c iccurredin Penrice Church 25 years ago. I 0 vas in the pulpit, and, referring to thee trong faith of the Syrophcenician woman v vho, in reply to the Saviour's rebuff, 'It is 1 lot meet to take the children's bread and sast it to dogs,'replied, Truth, Lord yet 8' he dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from j ,heir masters' table.' While quoting these ( yords a large dog entered the church, and il valked up the pulpit steps, as if expecting 1 o hear something more about his species. Vfter waiting a short time he walked ou: of t he church as quietly as he had come in." v L Cardiganshire folks feel rather uncom- ortable when they read of Mr. David v Javi^e's (Llandinan) statue and the state- L nents that are going round with reference n o the funds that his widow and his son are I, ;oing to devote as memorials to n lim. M<nfgom cry shire is to have £ 2,000 or intei mediate education, and Glamor- ;anshire gets a similar amount. Cardigan- „ hire, whiou he represented in Parliament, b s left out in the cold. For may years Mr. v )a.vid Davies was a generous donor to all ° ianses in Cardiganshire, which is certainly 81 lot a rich county, but when they threw him J iver when he refused to follow Mr. Glad- d tone in-1880 all his donations suddenly p teased. The Cardis have bitterly repented I ,f their acts. They now cannot get their I d ntermediato school* established from want j! if funds; £2,OGO would be very welcome, t mt i'; is not forthcoming. Serve them IIJ ight. In the iastiasue of the Gwyliedydd" the )Jà story about the Joneses of Jesus is •evived. One night an Oxonian from mother college asked the porter of Jesus for :he rooms of Mr. Jones. Porter: "We lave 43 of the name of Jones here." Vtsitor I want to see Mr. David Jones." Porter t There are 21 David Joneses." Visitor: My "riend has red hair." Porter There are q leven David Joneses with red hair. Visitor This is frightful. 1 had been invited to a ( ivine by Mr. D. Jones." Porter:" Ob, <■ that's all right. Only one man in college t irinkswine. AH the rest are teetotalers." ( Lhf Gwyliedydd" thinks this is a fablo j invented by Engiishmen to libel the Welsh f [>har;tot«r. But is it a libel to say that 42 t of 43 men are teetotalers? The correct version of the story makes the porter say It Only one drinks wine; all the rest drink beer." There is a dispute at a colliery in the neighbourhood of Gorseinon, and a delegate was deputed to go to London last week to f effect a settlement. On the morrow he I wired back the following message: "Meet < Winch House of Commons to-day." The receiver of the telegram misconstrued its message, and lost no time in going round tho men telling them to meet Mr. • Winch on the common that day. Scores of miners proceeded to the j common, and, after waiting for some I hours in vain for Mr. Winch, it was thought desirable to see the telegraph message, whereupon it was handed to all intelligent person, who, with much dismay and disgust, perceived that the receiver had mistaken House of Commons for the common. After this explanation the vast concourse imme- diately left the common, but tbe receiver of the telegram kept himself hermetically alert up tor a ooowowwam6 amoer or mmmm- Wr at mine 0'010811 on Wednesday orising (according to the Welshman ") a pious battle was fought in the air almost resUj over the Carmarthen Training Col- are. Two wows were seen attacking a large sron. The latter appeared to be getting ther funky when a hawk appeared in view' ie hawlc had apparently some prey in his Ions, and either in hope of getting a share in order to divert his attention from the fht one of the crows moved off in the iwk's direction. The hawk sought the rth again, and disappeared from view. Iq e meantime the heron, being left witll 11y one enemy to combat, collected his attered senses and bethought him of a? srice which he ought to have put in pi act Be before. He now rose in the air to q iight whither the crows could not foilow. he crow that followed the hawk gave art vitation to a few others of his species to- llow and rejoined his companion. The iron made for the river or the sea, and the ows followed at a lower level, but they ) not seem to have come into close contact ith the heron afterwards. ie office poet grieves to note the levity that shines t times like these through Day by Day's irreverential lines. nv days have passed since this same scribe, whose humour naught can slake, eclated the poet from the fire was rescued "by mistsike" 'is not enough that I should be ejected from my cave, nd lose my little all (though there was nothing much to save) is not enough at Cardiff end to jealously behold he Newport stdf a-starri ng it and I left in the cold, o knock about as best one can—no revelling and spree t two p.m. in down express, nor junkettirgs for me. il this is for the Newport equad, and Day bv Day among- 'em— o wonder that the tibdld gibes of "Welsh Athleto" have stun, 'em he Athlete" shores my humble cot, for if it has been said I proverb trite IS from pan to fire," we other* wise havo sped. rom fire a pan we sought and found—Panopti* con, you know. 'hanks be to Stoll, who kindly thus did mitigate our woe. nd now this -1 Day by Diy" must take my Car- diff pals to t'lflt y talking in mysterious tones about a certain c'lsk, 'he Newport stuff is virtuous and temperate and the rest, 'or they have told us so, and they must know their business best. lut now about, the cask I would inform our Day by Day," 'he whisky's safe, no matter what his wittiness may sny, 'or, fearing that the sacred stuff w'ul! tempt some wayward elf I wandering round from Newport end, I drank it all myself!

THE HEALTH OF CARDIFF. Dr. Watford's Annual Report. Dr. Walford'ts report on the health of tha ort of Cardiff for the year 1892 has been issued. 11 the statiaticn preceding the report the floating opu'.ation is estimated at 7,000 persons; the Tat number of vessel?, foreign nnd coastwise, s 12,217, and tonnage as 5,081.149. During the ear fifteen patients had been admitted to the ifectious ward of the Hamadryad, as comptred if ith 25 the previous year. Of these six died, 'he usual lengthy inspection and hoard- Ig lists are given, 4,608 vessels having ecu inspected during the year, of which 13 were in a more or less insanitary state. 'he systematic inspection of shipping was effi- ientlv performed by Chief-inspector Jenkins and is staff. The precautionary arrangements in iew of cholera are detailed, and Dr. Wsilford lakes the following suggestions tor future ction :— "In the first place the medical inspection 01 '638e13 outsido the docks must obviously be ontinued as long as any cholera exists in any of he Continental ports. This inspection must also ake place by night as well as by day, and must Ilclude all vessels which are actually infected. 'his arrangement must be regarded as th" outer ine of defence, upon the efficiency of winch our afcty from invasion in gr,eat part must ac-penu. L further, but less eflicient, safeguard is afforded iv the examination by the Customs officers at he boundary station inside the Docks. These fficei-3 are required by the cholera regulations t the Local Government Hoard to send mmediate notice to the sanitary authority f the existence of any case of suspected hoi era. The danger of trusting entirely to his Custom House inspection is SO' obvious ,hat, any observation1' upon this point would be in necessary were it not for the fact that only a rery distinct and real benefit, to the community ivould justify the heavy expense incurred by he sanitary authority in making an effectual nsuection of the sl ipping outside the dock", in- lopentiently of and antecedent to that of the Justness officers. A.tin, the inquiry by these Justoms officer" who are untrained in sanitary nul medical mat ter: and who are for the most: Dirt ignorant of the symptoms of disease, must jf m-cessity he of comparatively little value, HI d such a system of inspection, if entirely elit-d 011, would undoubtedly lead to cases of jholera escaping detection altogether, and it weuld be found extremely difficult to prevent communication with the shore i" the 3a»o of intecied vessels if they were ance within the dock gate". And, again, as cholera regulations require that infected vessels shall be dealt with outside the docks, at the mooring station, near the Flat Holm, such vessels if allowed to enter the docks would have to be taken out and removed to the mooring staiion at a large cost, and after considerable delay. The inspection iu the Pen-nth liouls and Cardiff Roads would, ot course, prevent ajl this itioonvcnieocj, as tha vessel womrt be detuned for disiufectioi', fee., at a point near to thu Flat Holm In the event of there being any case of sholera on botud, the patient could be removed to Llle hospital on the island without delay, The vosstl would be kept under observation mi'-ide the dock", and would not be allowed to enter 5.111 rij quite fies from infection. Ano'her qlles. !ion connected with cholera precautions to which I havo 10 call your attention w .hat of the disposal ot the bodies of those who liay have di>d in the cholera hospital on the i-hmd. The ordinary method of intenr.env could n«t in this situation be conveniently earned out, the depth of the soil lying ubove the carbo- lifet vus limestone rook isjinsufficient for the pur- pose. Burial at sea in a crowded roadfttad is ibiectionahle, as the body is apt to be dwluibed jv tho shipping. The mo>t rational me hod >v,nild, therefore, appear to be cremation, a n^thod >i disposing ot tho uead which it >s boped wiH soon become more universal. On this i--lao■ n the caSe of cholera, cremation would be an Joubteoly particularly suitable, iheie can be n loubt of the superiority ot this j150!1.1013 purely hygienic point of view, and of i.s value 1 lie case of the disposal of I ho bouii s of persons iyino- from infectious disea?e*, the germs ot which would be destroyed ly lire. I have, there. fore, to advise the construction of a small crema- torium in connection with your authority 8 llOapitnl.

THE DUKE OF PORTLAND AND HIS TURF WINNINGS. It is generally believed that the money which the Duke of Poitland wins at racing H given to charity, according to the direction of tile Duchess; and the Duke, not content with tnis, s^ems determined to hand down to posterity a tribute to her wholesome influence. In the centre gable of the fine new almsheuft'-s Utsly erected on his Welbeck estate for the wmows of tliose employed on it there is a stone with an engraved inscription, s<'ttin<; forth tha-. tlie buildings wero "erected by t'te sixth Duke of Portland, by the wish of IIh wifl' Tina»aftpr follow the names of tho successful mcehor. esand their victor f".

THE PRINCESS OF W A-:E8. Tlie Princess of Walea, *tt?*'jied by Miss Knollys and General Sir '.igliton I'.obyn, arrived at Marlborough Hor„s early un Monday morning from lhlmnral, i-ither she suddenly proceeded on Wednesday j.ijht on visit, to tho Queen. !II

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