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I METEOROLOGICAL NOFES. SOUTH WALES TIDE TABLE. I I +- ++ I w {s &< •* PS O < I s« S o »S a I S S s< o W i 6 I a f a I *> s r a o L.P 5I A Thurs- CMorning 8 7 <?6 8 40 7 g2 7 57 day < Evening 9 6 8 4 8 58 j 8 lo 8 17 Feb. 22 (.Height 38 0 I"33 X0 33 6 34 10 26 6 rMonTn^ 9 247~8 21 9^16~8 28 8 33 Friday i Evening 9 4\ 8 39 9 33 8 46 8 52 Feb. 23 '.Height 37 1 35 0 37 7 3+ 6 25 6 Satur- /'Morni'g 9 5b 8 g5 9 49 9 3 9 „ day. < Evening TO il 9 12 10 6 9 19 9 2n Feb. 24 (.Height 35- 5 31 8 35 11| 33 0 24 q «!n,,r1av (Morni'g 10 25 9 28 10 22 9 35 9 Sdal Evening 1C 40 9 10 38 9 51 3 5o Feb. 2a^Heigllt 33 j 29 ,j 35 ? 31 8 22 7 (Morni'g 10 55 lo"oTiO 54 10 71 10 12 Monday K Eveai>g Vt U 10 17 n U 10 24 0 29 ieb. cb 30 4 27 10 30 10 29 10 20 o Thoc/Iv (• Morni'g- U ,8 )0~35 lI^9TlO~437ioT8 1 Even ng II 47 ;o 55 11 50 IV 5 11 7 27 j Height 27 5 25 4 27 9 28 2 j 17 6 Wednes f Morni — 11 22 — 11 32 11 36 day < Even ng 12 11 11 56 12 16 — — Feb. £ 8 (.Height 24 6 23 1 | 25 0 [ 26 5 15 4 Roath Basin tEast Dock Sill JAlexandra Dock 5Dock Sill

BAROMETRICAL INDICATIONS. Appended is a chart of the barometrical readings for the 48 hours ended Tuesdav midnight, as regis- tered at the Western Mail Office, CardilL The instrument is 33ft. above sea level. MONDAY. I TUESDAY. 1 a.m. Noon. Xitiu'tJi a.m. Noon. Midn't 30~5p *3| ^—.—»>♦ ♦»<»<»>♦♦>»» •O! J 30'OJ ■7| 1- j———————-j— — ■6| 23-5',

I WEATHER FORECAST. YHSTKHHAY'S FORECAST. YHSTKKDAT'S WKATHE Easterlybreezes,moderate Easterly winds,moderate; (fresh in Channel); very fine cold. col d, but line and dry. | Tbe forecast of the weather throughout the. West of The forecast of the weather throughout the Welit of :;1"; fovith Walfts forto-dav(Wednesday) isfls olio ws:—North-easterlybreezcs, moderate jine; cold.

TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL. T.iKPKRATUBE. ——• Datb- MiaST .1- 'i'hurstlay 15 59 35 47'0 O'GO C'riday Il6 59 47 53*0 0 00 Saturday 'l7 "88 36 47*0 0'!9 Sunday |18 59 59 47*0 0'70 Monday ;19 35 28 43"5 0"C0 Tuesdar '21 59 28 1 43*5 O'OO Wednesday. ;22 | 59 27 ] 43'0 Q-QQ The Temperature represents extreme readings of the thermometer for 24 hours elided 9 a.m., taken in the .shade at Cwrt-y-Vil, Peuarth. TheKainlall registered at C'wrt-y-Vil, Penai th, for ihe 24 hours ended 9 a.m.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. HARRIERS. CKICKHOWUIL.—Wednesday, February 21, Cwm- baDwe Bridge, near Llanneder; Saturday, February 24, LLuigunider Village—12. Weather permitting. FOXHOUNDS. CARM \RT«KNSBIBB.—Friday, February 23, Shop- newydd, Llangain—10.30. Weather permitting. Gi.AMOK'iANsmHK. — Wednesday, February 21, Burton Bridge; Friday, February 23, Dusty Forge -11, Li.ANirAitAN.—Thursday, February 22, Courtvrala by invitaion)—11, MOMMOUTUSHIKE.—Thursday, February 22, Croes Bycllfu\-ll. PicMJiKOKKSHiRE.—Thursday, February 22, Treffie- ton Bridge-ll. ■'Mi;. SKYIVTOUR ALLKK'S.—Friday, February 23, Henllan Lodge—11;. Tuesday, February 27, Williams ton Quarries Friday, March2. TheBoses—12. Tivvsinu.—Thursday, February 22, The Kennels —10.45. Y ST H AD .—Tuesday, February 20, Thorn Hill; Thursday^February^2jjGKUg^y^TOr^d&

LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL SERVICES Wednesday, February 2L-Brooksbank in E flat; anthem, Unto Thee have I cried" (Elvey). Thursday, Febrtu'J'y 22.—Barnby in E; anthem, Incline Thine ear (Himmel). Friday, February 23.—Gibbons in F hymn, 277. Saturday, February 24 (S. Matthias).—Eight a.m. Holy Communion. Five p.m.: Stanford in B flat are these ?" (Stainer).

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NOTE s. By "OBSERVER." CARDIFF, WENESDAY MORNING, Most of us will gaze to-day at that scheme of Mr. Edwin Seward's with the same feeling's we experience when we look lingeringly and longingly at Dore's exqui- site representations of Paradise. We hope in a dim, dreamy sort of way that there may in some forgotten lumber- room of the Great Perhaps repose an off-Chance of our visiting that heavenly region and of seeing it for ourselves. But so far as the present goes, the whole blessed thing is in nubibus, and so it is with the Dream City of Mr. Seward's. With this difference: that 1 verily believe the pearly gates are much nearer to a goad many of us than this glorious re-modelled Cardiff is ever likely to be! However, if one tries to shoot the moon, one may succeed in bringing down a crow and in aiming at the impossible Mr. Seward may induce some of our leading lights to strive towards the attainment of the pos- sible. The Cardiff of to-day is passable enough to my way of thinking, but a deal can be done to improve it. Above all we want the slums swept away in toto. I note, however, that, so far as the plan we publish goes, Mr. Seward leaves Temperance F own severely alone, and no one who does that can be said to have attained the ideal comprehended in the re- modelling of Cardiff. A cruel scribe suggests that Mr. Seward should tackle another job-the re-modelling of the Cardiff Council. Of the two, I should say the latter would be by far the more diffi- cult. What, cleanse the local Augean stable ? Nay, nay, only a Hercules could attempt that with any prospect of success. But the mention of the council brings me back into the old grind of wants and woes. Round goes the wheel, and, of course, up hops that everlasting question of municipal buildings. Mr. Hill deserves the thanks of the com- munity twice over, first of all for his out- spoken language to the corporation over the Town-hall business,and in the next place for setting out so graphically the Law Society's proposals in comparison with those of the borough engineer. The Law Society's pro- posals are adequate and at the same time reasonable, and as they may be expected to know their own requirements and those of their order more thoroughly than the coun- cil can possibly do sensible people will ex- pect their lines to be followed, the more so as they are very little in excess of the pro- posals of the borough engineer. But what the public want above all is to see the county council tackle this problem like men. To parody a well known couplet:— Dally with the Town-hall question, And it stings like nettles—see Grasp it like a. brave town council, Then it soon will settled be. It must be added in apology for this rhyme that the Poet is poorly, the cause of his complaint, he says, being something internal, and I well believe him. However, his parody merely serves to illustrate the argument, and doesn't weaken it IN the least. I need scarcely say that I warmly sympa- tbise with Morien's" appeal for the widow "f our late townsman, "Giraldus." Mr. Row- land was a man who loved to assist others with such knowledge as he himself possessed, and that was a vast deal, and from time to time, in another place," I received much kindness and aid at his hands. Though a poor scribe can't do much except write Observer" will feel it a, privilege to add something to the Western MoAl fund in aid of one who has, if only for the sake of the honoured dead, a strong .claim on the public, not of Cardiff alone, but of all South Wales. "Giraldus," as librarian to Sir T. and in his wanderings throughout Wale s, FED acquired vast stores of infor- mation, «SS which he most freely and un- grudgingly drew for the benefit of all who sought his assistance. A man of this smuip —and all that Morien" says of him is most perfectly accurate-deserves well of his countrymen, and the best means of perpetuating his memory is to aid the fund in progress to assist Mrs. ROWLAND and lighten somewhat the burden of her declining years. t.. r Yesterday one of our reporters was stalk ing abaut with all sorts of matches sticking out of his pockets, such matches as I had never seen before. Matches are very precious in this office. Every fellow borrows of the other fellows, and carries none himself, so it need scarcely be added that these necessary little articles are at a premium. The fortu- nate reporter was at once the centre of an interested crowd, and eftsoons his stock had seriously diminished. He had been initiated into the match making business at Llandaff, and his experiences appear elsewhere* He is now quite prepared to believe that all matches are not made above, but that some have a very decided sulphurous t aint about them. Often curious combinations are lound in the advertising columns of our newspapers. The following is the announcement made by a recently bereaved wife :—" Died on the 11th instant, at his shop, No. 20, Greenwich- street, Mr. Edward Jones, much respected by all who knew and dealt with him. As a man he was amiable; as a hatter, upright and moderate. His virtues were beyond all price, and his beaver hats were only 3s each. He has left a widow to deplore his loss, and a large stock to be sold cheap, for the benefib of his family. He was snatched to the other world in the prime of life, just as he had concluded an extensive purchase of felt, which he got so cheap that his widow can supply hats at a more reason- able rate than any house in the city. His disconsolate family will carry on business with punctuality." Father Prout's description of the Groves of Blarney," that part, at all events, where he observes:— There is a boat on The lake to float eD," will, ere long, be true of the sheet of water at Roath Park, which, between boats, fish, and model yachts, will be pretty well occupied. Hard lines on passengers by sea to Bristol On every such passenger the dock authorities on the Avon will for the future levy a toll of twopence, whilst it is said the Bute Docks people are about applying for similar powers. If the latter be granted every Bristol trip will cost fourpence more than at present. But I suppose if a person remains on the boat and doesn't land .at Bristol this sum will be reduced one-half. This will, however, be far more than made up by the abominable stink which rises from the Avon during the summer months. The Bristol papers are finding out now what a shilly-shallying lot our leading folks y z73 are many of them. Thus the Western Daily Press this morning, discussing the exhibition question, says:—" As was mentioned yester- day, a sub-committee was appointed to con- sider and report what the approximate income and expenditure of the ex- hibition would be, and meantime the question of the purchase of the Bristol building stands in abeyance. The delay in arriving at a decision cannot be altogether satisfactory to the Bristol com- mittee, and there is just the possibility that if the Cardiffians do not soon make up their minds upon the subject they may find that they have lost the opportunity of acquiring a commodious building at a very moderate cost."

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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. Some Interesting Pars about Interesting People. The Countess of Carnarvon and the Ladies Herbert have been making a short yachting cruise with Sir John Pender. The rumour is revived that Sir Charles Russell is to be appointed Lord Chief Justice on the early resignation of Lord Coleridge. Lady Butler (Miss Thompson, ef Boll Call" celebrity) is new settled at Aldershot with her husband, General Sir William Butler, and their five children. This gifted lady is engaged painting a picture for the Royal Academy. The subject is Waterloo. Mr. Rudyard Kipling is to re-visit England next month. The author of Barrack-room Ballads has resisted an attempt to induce him to read selections from his works on tour, but he is credited with an intention to connect him- self with the management of a new periodical. Mr. Edward Lloyd never mumes his throat. The only time he did so be caught a fearful cold His advice is Breathe through the nose, and not through the mouth, when coming out of a hot room." Nor has Mr. Lloyd ever found smoking affect his voice, though he has been a smoker from an early age. An interesting incident took place at the Levee. The Ministers of the Crown in atten- j dance usually congregate around the fire-place, situated at some little distance from the dais. When the Prince of Waies noticed that the Prime Minister was among those who were pre- 'e sent he left the dais and walked up -to the group in order to shake hands and converse with Mr. Gladstone.

PULPIT COLLAPSED. Preacher was in it and Now Lies Seriously Injured. A Dalziel's telegram from Nimes says :-An extraordinary accident occurred on Sunday dur- ing Divine Service in the Parish Church of Meynes. While the cure was reading the announce- ments the pulpit structure fell bodily to the nave, carrying the priest with it. The latter had both legs badly crushed, and is in a critical con- dition. Three women were seriously hurt by pieces of stone which fell. Others received con- tusions. A stampede ensued.

A BOTTLE'S LONG VOYAGE. A bottle containing the following message has been picked up near Start Point, Sanday, Orkney :—" Division of Marine Meteorology- United States Navy Department. Thrown over, board by George Watt, S.S. Ludgate, 11th September, 1893, lAt. 48.8 N., long. 35.50 W. The finder of this will please send it to any United States Consul, or forward it direct to the Hydrographic Office, Navy Department, Washington," The slip of paper was in excellent preservation, and the instructions to the finder were printed in six different languages. It has been forwarded to Washington.

GWILYM Ev.u;s' BITTERS is described as perfect medicine by patients -who tave used it, chemists who have sold it, and doctors who have prescribed it for indigestion, and nervousness, and weakness. Sold every where. THE GREAT SALE OF SEWING MACHINES, jlangles, Perambulators, Mail Carts, will end on iSaxch. I.-A. W. Spencer, successor to Henry ST., Joim's Chur«ltsanaw.Cardiffk.

..Vour Kindly Aid is Asked. --?. ?- JOHN ROWLANDS ("GIRALDUS.") (From a photograph by Lee Brothers, Cardiff.)

THE WIDOW OF GIRALDUS. Poverty Presses Hard upon Her and Help is Needed. "Morien" writes:—I have just come into contact with a very touching story. It relates to a literary man, who was master of both the English and Welsh languages, and who wrote several interesting things in both tongues, and was an occasional contributor to the daily and weekly journals, of the day. I never, to my knowledge, saw him in the, flesh, but he on many occasions measured swords with me in this journal. But, like a true Briton, he never knew when he was beaten. His name was John Rowland, though he wrote under the nom de plume of "Giraldus." He passed over to the majority at Cardiff on July 4, 1891, in the sixty-seventh year of his age, leaving a widow with only a few pounds between her and total penury. Ten years before his death he had a severe attack of paralysis, which left his left side in a helpless condition, with his left arm like a whip hanging by his side. He had, at the time the severe affliction came upon him, a wife and yoilng family of girls dependent upon him. But he was totally unable to do anything for a living. As usual in such cases coming before him, Lord Bute contributed, through the hands of Sir William Thomas Lewis, frequently to "Giraldus's" assistance; Sir John Dillwyn Llewelyn, Bart., Penllergare, General Lee, and some others occasionally sent contributions. "Giraldus's" circumstances were made known to the Oovernment of the day, and during several of the last years of b's life he received from the Treasury an annuity of L25 as a small acknowledgment of the ser- vice he had rendered to the literature of Wales. IKiring his earlier, years he; had acted, as chief librarian to the late Sir Thomas Phillips, Middle Hall, Cheltenham, and in that capacity had rendered invaluable service by his classifi- cation of the invaluable manuscripts in that library, which are now, if I am not mistaken, the property of the country. The invaluable his- tory of Glamorgan by lthys Meirig, which had been in manuscript since it was written in 1578, was printed at the expense of Sir Thomas Phillips when "Giraldus" was his chief librarian. In recent years the late Mr. J. Andrew Corbett, Cardiff, published a second edition of that work, which is known as ":Mor- gauæ," a short time before his Untimely death. "Giraldus" was a schoolmaster by profession, and in that capacity he spent ten years at Kumney, near Cardiff; sixteen years at Dinas Powys; and he spent some years also at Risca and Bedwas in a similar capacity. He was, moreover, the lirst to catalogue the contents' of the Cardiff Public Library. He was, it appears, a most estimable man in all the rela- tions of life. After lie was attacked with paralysis he was incessantly occupied in keep- ing' tbe wolf from the door. At last, after a few days of severe illness, he died. His widow had succeeded in saving a few pounds by the severest economy, and until a few weeks ago had silently lived upon what she had saved. Now all the little store has been spent, and were it not for the kindness of her two married daughters, who are not in circumstances to afford much help, the poor widow of "Giraldus" would be now homeless. She has had to part, one after the other, with Giraldus's books, and all are gone. Among the last items sold was an exceedingly valuable history of Llandaff in MS. which won the prize at an eisteddfod about half a century ago. It contains most interesting pencilled sketches. Being much pressed for money, and not knowing the value of the MS., she sold it for a few shillings. It eventually came into the hands of Mr. Bal- linger, the Cardiff librarian, who gave almost as many pounds for it as the poor widow had received in shillings. The widow is at the presest moment pressed for the payment of the balance she owes for a headstone she had placed over Giraldus's grave. Bv the request of Mr. LasceUes Carr, I called upon the w idow on Tuesday, and left for her, on behalf of the proprietors of this journal, a small contribution as a temporary assistance. She occupies an apartment at 36, Tresillian- terrace, Penarth-road, Cardiff, and is well de- serving of the charity of the merciful, the prac. tical Christians of the rich town of Cardiff and South Wales generally. "Kind hearts are more than coronets."

HABITUAL DRUNKARDS. The Establishment of the Reformatory Institution. TO THE EDITOR OF THE" EVENING EXPRESS." Sir,—I note your remarks on the case of the woman who was brought before the Cardiff magistrates on Saturday last for being drunk and disorderly for the 105th time. You say, In suoh cases is intermittent punishment any good at all?" I answer your question most emphatically in the negative. Punish- ment of any kind in the case of habitual drunkards is a disgrace to our civilisation, and intermittent" punishment, in addition to being worse than useless, is a charge upon the rates with which we ought no longer to put up. The great evil of our legislation in dealing with habitual drunkards is that it is permissive only. What we want is a short Act of Parlia- ment which shall give powers to magistrates to detain such a person as you refer to for at least a year, not in a prison, but in the work- house, or in a home specially provided for such cases. Habitual drunkenness is a disease, and should be treated as such, and when this is fully reoognised and acted upon it will, in the end, cost less to deal with such cases than by fine or short periods of imprisonment, and will eventually tend greatly to the welfare of the community in general. Last year Sir John Bridge, the well-known Metropolitan stipendiary magistrate, imprisoned an inebriate female offender for three months, and was much impressed with her improved state on coming out of prison. A Governmen- tal. committee has had the matter under consi- deration, and has recommended the establish- ment of reformatory curative institutions for this class of offenders against the law. The Home Secretary has promised to introduce a Bill embodying the main recommendations of the departmental committee. Shall we hear anything more of this promise in these days of political strife over Home Rule, parish counoils, and employers' liability? Let us hope we may. Pending such legislation, nothing should be easier than to pass a short Act enabling magistrates to commit such per- sons to detention in the workhouse for a period of twelve months.—I am, &c., A. SHEEN. Cardiff, Feb. 19.

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UNDERGROUND MANAGERS. A Difficulty of Only Welsh-speaking Candidates Removed. A few weeks ago, at the suggestion of Mr Thomas Parry, Mold, and others interested in Welsh collieries, Me. Herbert Lewis, M.P., I drew the attention of the Home Secretary to the fact that a number of experienced and qualified Welsh miners were disqualified from obtaining positions as underground managers owing to their insufficient knowledge of the English lan- guage. Mr. Asquith at once promised to inquire into the matter with a view to redress- ing the grievance complained of, and the result of his investigation is embodied in the following letter, which will give much satisfaction to those who have taken interest in the matter :— Whitehall, 17th February, 1894. Sir,-Witb reference to your letter of the 12th ultimo, drawing attention to the difficulty expe- rienced by Welsh-speaking candidates for certificates of competency under the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1887, in making themselves understood in English at their viva voce examination, I am directed by the Secretary of State to acquaint you that arrangements have been made for an interpreter speaking Welsh to attend the examinations for second claws certificates of competency for the Liver- pool and South Wales Mining Districts, and to render such assistance as may be desired.—I am, sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) E. LEIGH Pehbeeton. Mr. J. H. Lewis, M.P.

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I CHARITABLE WARNED. r A Beggar Who Wants to Get to Cardiff May Calf. Miss C. J. Parish writes from 18, St. jobn's Church-road, Hackney, to the TtMMs :—" A few weeks ago you kindly published a warning as regards two very clever beggars—A young man needing £ 1 to get to his ship at Cardiff, and a young woman who requires 15s. to get te Exeter to receive a legacy. As a result of my letter in your columns, I find these people have been telling these stories, and gaining, no doubt, considerable sums, for the last four months, in various districts in and around London. Three people are willing to prosecute, and the police have the particulars. This last week the young woman has again been in Chelsea. The names given by both continually change, but Smith and Edwardes seem those generally adopted and exchanged. As they have always a great amount of local information, and profess to be sent by a personal friend of the lady on whom they are calling, and give the correct name and address, they are able to deceive many. Will some one of your readers give them in charge ?*"

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POSTAL DELAYS. A Case for the Cardiff Chamber of Commerce. The inadequate postal arrangements which exist between Cardiff and London and the South and West of England continue to cause great inconvenience to commercial men in the first-named town. An instance of the delay which occurs is given by Mr. H. J. Vellacott, of Penarth. A letter posted at Bournemouth in time for the evening collection at 7.0 p.m. on the 16th inst. was delivered at his residence at 6.20 p.m. on the 17th. Mr. Vellacett, annoyed at the delay, made some inquiries, and found that if he posted a letter for Bournemouth after 12.30 p.m. it would be delivered there at 8.15 the following morning, whereas if he took the 2.57 p.m. train for the same place he could get there at 8.15 the same night. The distance is only 120 miles, and the postal facilities under these circumstances can only be described as inadequate.

A WOMAN CRUCIFIED. People Thought She Was a Witch and Had Cast Spells. A Vienna correspondent reports an extraordi- nary and horrible drama which has been enacted at the little village of Rekesely, near Temesvar, in Hungary. Thermae Kleitsch, an old woman who lived in poverty, had long been alleged by the superstitious villagers to possess the power of a-witch. Misfortunes in the vil- lage were attributed to her alleged evil influence, and the outbreak of an epidemic among children was declared to be her work. She was also supposed to have cast a spell over the stables, with the result that many horses and cattle recently died of disease, and this apparently incensed her neighbours. A plot was therefore formed in the village, and a terrible vengeance carried out. The unfortunate woman was seized, gagged, and, after being flogged, was crucified. The police have opened an inquiry, but have not yet succeeded in discovering the authors of the abominable crime.

MARY THREW A GLASS. She is to Get Less Dangerous Exercise in Adamsdown Now. A glass seems to be a very handy and much used weapon in the salubrious portion of Cardiff known as "Tiger Bay," and circumstances arising out of a missile of this kind being thrown are frequently heard at the borough police-court. Richard Hill was in the Locomotive Hotel, Bnte- street, on Tuesday evening, when Mary Ann Jones came in. The landlord of the hotel re- fused to serve Mary, and she went out, but re- turned and threw a glass at Hill, whose fore- head was severely cut. Prisoner had a hlaok eye, which she averred was caused by a. blow from Hill, but the theory was exploded by Police-constable Cassidy, who said it was the result of Mary's attempt to run through a atone wall when the police were after her. Tbe Stipendiary sent Mary to Adajnadown for «ix .wejeks.witfi IPRD LAHWGI

Principality Parlets. NOTES AND NEWS OF WELSH- MEN AND WALES. ~fg £ >agr £ phs of Persons and Places and r Sos^ Gathered from AW Over Gwalia. ,S'? "Speak up; we can't hear you," OBSERVED Constable Morgan to a witness at Penarth Cours 011 Monday. A ladies' paper says that Welsh HOTELS, aa a. rule, are not EXPENSIVE, but that the country inns are not A success. That's t thumper. The first school established HI Carnarvon- shire and Ang-Iesea under the Intermediate Education Act for Wales was opened thert on Monday. No less than 26 men went to gaol on com- mitment by the Merthyr magistrates on Mon- day. This is the largest number on record in the annals of the Merthyr Police-00art. Our Radical contemporary, the "Daily Post," is now doing what the "Mail" baa been doing for years, bewailing the fact that Wales raises no monuments to her dead chiefs. "LOLO Morganwg" is said to have been one of the first teetotalers in Wales. But "lolo" was by no means a temperate møBt for it is recorded that he drank fifteen OF sixteen oups of tea AT a meal. Let Yankee Taffies look to their laurel < Theirs is not the only Keltic tongue in whidi papers are printed in the regions of Uncle Sam. There are said to be half-a-dozen papers printed in the Irish language, and nearly a score which print a. column of Irish every week. Children ot the present day are poor things, so the Vicar of Ystradyfodwg thinks. They are more uncouth, more uncultivated and bad tempered, and use worse language than the children of his childhood days. Mr. Lewit thinks that the cause of it all is that the Bibki has been abolished from the day schools. Lord and Lady Lisburne and Lady Amherst have again this year distributed a large quan- tity ox iiannel amongst the poor in the parishes of Llanafan, Y strad Meurig. Swyddffynon, Strata Florida and Pontrhydfendigaid. Lledrod Gwnnws, Yspytty, Llanfihangel, Cnwch, Rhosygell, and Frongoch, in all 176 persons. Sometimes the reductio ad absurdum theory plays a useful part. In a forthcoming Car- diganshire eisteddfod one firm wanted to utilise the aged institution as an advertising medium for their yarn. Pills and mixture followed suit, and at last the committee have made a clean sweep, and thus upheld th8 dignity of Gwalia's festival. There is a Nonconformist minister dowm West who has had to give up preaching owing to a most peculiar affection of the throat, which, strange to say, only troubles him directly he mounts the pulpit, but does not prevent him from ranting at political meetings. It is not that his politics are unexceptionable at all that Providence has thus visited him. It would have been better, perhaps, if the malady affected him on the platform and not in the pulpit. Sir George Osborne Morgan will read the following with interest. It is stated that when Dr. Thirlwall, late Bishop of St. David's, waa learning Welsh his lordship experienced soma difficulty in giving the "11" its proper sound. A happy idea struck his tutor, who one day told the bishop, Apply the tip of your tongue to the roof of your mouth, and blow like a. goose." This his lordship did, and the diffi- culty was over. Perhaps Sir Edward Reed will now try to become a Welshman. What's the matter with Wales for honey- moons? In replying to an anxious correspon- dent, the editor of the "Queen" "Aberystvvith and Central Wales for a honey- moon.—I should not choose Aberystwith, cer- tainly, for any such occasion. At these times the greater amount of distraction the BETTER and this quiet Welsh town is distinctly not lively. Wales in May is too early for enjoy- ment, unless you go to Tenby, and that is not exactly a lively place, though very charm- ing." It, happened when the gale blew at its, highest on a recent Sunday night and the people were pouring out of the Nonconformist chapels at Aberayron. A deacon was chasing his hat round a corner just as another deacon v.th hii wife on his arm, tightly braced for the strong head wind, approached. Deacon Now 2, with much self-denial but with questionable gallantry, hastened to assist Deacon No. 1, whereupon the wife, indignant at the desertion and with a lightning thrust at the reputed idiosyncrasy of Deacon No. 1, shouted to her husband, "Let him catch his hat if he can. He needn't have lost it if he had tied his tongue round it." It is anticipated that the North Wales police will resign in a body, and if they meet with similar brutality we should not wonder at the South Wales police following the example. Coppers can stand, a good deal of pressure, but when the juvenile fiends of Bangor raised the dirge which is appended the howl that came from the force lifted the roof of the police-station. This was the musical horror that crushed them:— I wouldn't be a bobby, On half a crown a day, Standing all the corner To dtive the kids away. I wouldn't be a bobby, Wearing bobby's clothes, With a big tall hat And a belly full of fat, M And a great big indiarubber nose. A respectable man had A bad couple of minutes in Cowbridge-road yesterday. He waa afraid he would have to compound a. felony. A boy was beating a top when a. dog came up" closed his teeth on the top, and ran off with it. The boy gasped, and the owner of the 00g was so startled that he stopped to look. The dog nimbly ran AWAY, and when the boy recovered from the shock he started the chase, but the dog kept at easy distanoe. People were beginning to cry out that it was a shame to deprive a boy of his top, and then the owner of the dog, apparently struck with the THOUGHT that people might imagine he had planned the thing himself, vociferously called the AIUNTW. by its name. After a lot of coaxing the dog slowly returned, and after some more COAXING with the big end of a walking-stick he let go of the top. The Kelt is looking up everywhere. The Welshman, indeed, has always been faithful to his vernacular, so faithful, indeed, that it ia spoken to-day by more folk than EVER. AND now, other Kelts are awaking and going to make up for lost time. Says Languages There can be no question of the enthusiasitt which the attempts to revive interest Mt the Irish language and literature are AROUSING amongst the sons of Erin. The Irish newao papers are flooded with reports of meeting8 held in connection with the movement for the preservation OF the old Keltic tongue, of letter. from correspondents and of lectures upon tha- same subject, and of lessons in Else. As might have been expected, the influence of the wave of native linguistic fervour which is sweeping, over Ireland has been folt in Sootland, and even in the late of Man; and wo hear of re- newed animation aneait the study of the cognate vernacular languages of FEE Highlanders and the Manxmen." Swansea Oynimrodorion are oleft in two opposite camps over the meamng of the Ilame Royal Hotel. The difficulty is, according to A Swansea paper, that there is no WELSH word for royal or for hotel. So both Breamolists and Breninoliste at the Cymmrodorion are equally in error. "Breiniol" means free-bom, as, for instance, in Acts, "Minau a anwyd yn freiniol" ("I was free-born ")."Breninol," on the other hand, means not "royal" exactly, bat "kingly,* referring to the king in hia official capacity rathe* than to his State. Of the two words "brEninol" comes next in meaning TO royal, and for HUe reason was employed by the translators of the Prayer Book in rendering the phrase "and all the Royal Family" "w boll Frenhinol. Deulu," which literally means "ail the family of the Icing as such." As to the word "hotel," to say that "ostl" is better Welsh than "ostel" ia simply nonsensical, neither of them being Welsh at all. All three come from a Latin source through Norman French, and are th. same as the word "hostel" used in connection with some of our SCHOLASTIC institutions. In fact. Welsh HAS no word for this kind of estabj the other wdrds in use, gwestty It and tafam," like "ostl" or "ostel, TATAG comers and st ran gens.

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