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Making a Match.
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Making a Match. I wouldn't marry the best man that ever lived 1" And she meant it, or, what answers the same purpose, she thought she meant it. After all, how few of us ever really know what we mean? "I engaged myself once, when a girl, and the simpleton thought he owned me. I soon took the conceit out of him, and sent him away about his business. The voice was now a little sharp. What wonder, with so galling a memory? No man shall ever tyrannise over me—never What the mischief do you suppose is the matter with this sewing machine ?" "Annoyed at your logic most likely," said my friend, a bright young matron, as she threaded her needle, My husband is not a tyrant, Miss Kent." I am glad you are satisfied," was the laconio reply. It was quite evident by the expression of the dressmaker's face that she had formed her own opinion about my friend's husband and was quite competent to form and express an opinion on any subjeot. Miss Kent was a little woman, fair as a girl and plump as a robin. She wasn't ashamed to own that she was forty years old and an old maid. She had earned her own living most of her life and was proud of it. She was a good nurse, a faithful friend, and a jolly companion; but stroke her the wrong way and you'd wish fou hadn't in much shorter time than it takes e to write it. Her views on all subjects were strikingly original and not to be oom- iated, What are you going to do when you are aid ?" persisted the mistress of the establih- lnent. What other folks do, I suppose." But you can't work for ever." U Can't say that I want to." Now, Miss Kent, a husband with means, kind,intelligent man——" r. "I don't want any man. I tell you Mrs. Carlisle, I wouldn't marry the best man living, if he was as rioh as Croesus and would die if I did'nt have him. Now, if you have exhausted the marriage question, I should like to try on your dress." There was something behind all this I knew well. My friend's eyes danced with fun and, as Miss Kent fitted the waist, she threw me a letter from the bureau. "Read that," she said, with a knowing look. It may amuse you." This is what the letter said:— My dear Jennie,—I shall be delighted to spend a month with you and your husband. There must be, however, one stipulation about my vist-you must say no more about marriage. I shall never be foolish again. Twenty years to-day I wrecked my whole life. (" Better embark in a new ship, hadn't I ?" put in Jennie, sotto voce.) So unsuit- able was this marriage, so utterly and entirely wretched have been its consequences, that I am forced to believe the marriage institution a mis- take. So, for the last time, let me assure you that I wouldn't marry the beat woman that ever lived, if by so doing I could save her life.—Your old cousin, MARK LANSING. 11 Rich, isn't he?" said Jennie, and then pointed to the ohubby little figure whose back happened to be turned. I shook my head and laughed. You'll see," said the incorrigible. See what ?" inquired Miss Kent, quite un- aware of our pantomime. That parties which are chemically attracted will unite. Of course an alkali and an aoid. Don't you think this sleeve a little too long, Miss Kent ?" Not after the seam is off. But what was jrou saying, Miss Carlisle ? The other day at }?rofeasor Boynton's I saw some wonderful experiments." And did they sucoeed inquired Jennie, temorely. Beautifully." So wi I I mine, I never yet botched a job my life." I don't think I quite understand you," yplied Miss Kent, perplexed. No P I always grow scientific when talk- ing about marriage, my dear." Bother!" was all the little woman said, but the tone was muoh better natured that I expected. The next week Cousin Mark arrived, and I liked him at onoe. An unhappy marriage would have been the last thing thought of in connection with that gentleman. He had accepted the situation like a man, Jennie told me, and for fifteen years oarried a load of misery that few could have endured. Death oame to him at last, and now the poor fellow actually believed himself an alien from domestic happiness. Singular as it may appear, Cousin Mark was the embodiment of good health and good nature; fifty, perhaps, though he didn't look it, and tu rotund and as fresh in his way as the little dressmaker was in hers. As I looked )t him I defied anybody to see one and not be minded of the other, True, he had more of the polish which nomes from travel and adaptation to different classes and individuals, but he was Dot a whit more intelligent by nature than the bright little woman whom Jennie determined he should marry. I was surprised you should think it neoes- sary to caution me about that, Cousin Mark," cooed the plotter as she stood by his side, looking out of the window. U The idea of my being so ridiculous! and in the same breath, with a wink at me, Come, let us go to my aitting-room. We are at work there, but it won't make any difference to you, will it ? Of course Cousin Mark answered "No" promptly, as innocent as a dove about the trap being laid for him. This is my cousin, Mr. Lansing, Miss Kent." And Mr. Lansing bowed politely and Miss Kent rose, dropped her soissors, blushed and sat "down again. Cousin Mark picked up the retractory implements, and then Mrs. Jennie proceeded with rare caution and tact to her labour of love, Cousin Mark, at her request, read aloud an article from the "Popular Science Monthly," drawing Miss Kent into the disoussion as daftly as was ever fly drawn into the web of a spider. Who is that lady, Jannie ?" Cousin Mark inquired in the evening. You mean Miss Kent," said Jennie, look- ing up from her paper. Oh, she is a lady I have known for a long time. She is making some dresses for me now. Why ?" "She seemed uncommonly well posted for a woman." Under any ottatflncaaastances Mrs. Carlisle would have ressentadiihie, but now she only queried, Do you think so ?" and that ended it ?" Two or three invitations to the sewing-room were quite sufficient to make Cousin Mark perfeotly at home there, and, after a week, he became familiar enough to say: If you are not too busy I should like to read you this artiole." Oh, I am never too busy to be read to," Miss Kent would say. Sit down by the win- dow, in this oomfortable chair, and let's hear it." After a couple of weeks, when the gentle- man came in, hoarse, with a sudden cold, Miss Kent bustled about, her voice full of sympathy, and brewed him a dose which he declared he should never forget to his dying day; but one dose cured, After this ooour- rence Miss Kent was a really wonderful Woman. Ah, what an &rob-plotter I She let them skirmish about, but not once did she give them a chance to be alone together. Her plans were not to be destroyed by premature confidences until the very evening preceding Cousin Mark's depai tjjre for Vail i fgrnia, Then Miss Kent was very demurely asked to remain and keep an eye on Master Carlisle,'whom the fond mother did not like to leave quite alone with his nurse. We are compelled to be gone a couple of hours," said she; but Cousin Mark will read to you-won't you, cousin ?" Certainly, if Miss Kent would like it," replied the gentleman. The infant Carlisle, thanks to gooi manage- ment, was never awake in the evening, so the victims of this matrimonial speculation would have plenty of time. The back parlour was the room most in use during the evening, and out of this room was a large closet with a large blind ventilator, and out of this closet a door leading to the back stoop and garden. Imagine my surprise when I was told that Mr. Carlisle was going to the lodge, and that we, after profuse warnings about the baby and promises not to be gone too long, were to pro- ceed to this closet overlooking the back parlour by the way of the back gate and garden, In vain I protested. Why, you little goosie, laughed Jennie, there'll be fun enough to last a lifetime. John wanted to come awfully, but I knew he'd make an awful noiae and spoil everything, so I wouldn't let him." The wily schemer took the precaution to lock the closest door from the outside, so there was no fear of detection. On a high bench, still as two mice, we awaited results.. Presently, Cousin Mark, as if arousing from a protracted reverie, asked, Would you like to have me read P" "Ob, I am not particular," replied Miss Kent. "Here is an excellent article on elective affinities. How would you like that ?" Jennie's elbow in my side almost took away my breath. Who is it by ? she inquired. Jennie exclaimed (close in my ear, That's to gain time, see if it ain't. "It's by a prominent Frenoh writer,' I believe," answered Cousin Mark. I don't think I care for a translation to- night," said Miss Kent. Nor I; nor reading of any kind," he con- tinued. This is my last evening in New York, Miss Kent." "I hope you've enjoyed your visit," she re- turned. Jennie (into my very head this time)," She's as shy as a three-year-old colt." I didn't think I should feel so bad about leaving," Cousin Mark went on. He is the wreck, you remember," whis- pered Jennie. A long pause. I think I hear the baby," exclaimed Miss Kent. Oh, no," said Cousin Mark. You are. fond of babies, are you not," Miss Kent P" No answer from Miss Kent. "I have been a very lonely man, Miss Kent," Cousin Mark resumed, but I never realised how lonely the rest of my life must be until I came to this house." Oh, how lonely," echoed Jennie. Now I must return to my business and my boarding honse-boarding house for a man so fond of domestic life as I am, Miss Kent." Just then we very distinctly heard a little kind of a purr, which sounded very like a note of intense sympathy from Miss Kent. "I have friends in San Francisco, of course." said Cousin Mark, but no fireside like this, no one to care for me if I am ill, nobody to feel very badly if I die." That'll fetch her," said Jennie. I wish that I lived in San Francisco," said Miss Kent, in a little quivering voice. You could call upon me at any time if you needed anything." Jennie in convulsions. "If you will go to California with me,Misa Kent, I'll wait another week." "Why, Mr. Lansing, what do you mean? What would folks say f she said. We don't care for folks," said Mark. If you will go, we will have a house as pleasant as money can make it. You shall have birds and flowers and horses, and all the scientific monthlies that you want, deuced if you shan't, and you shall never sew another stitch for anybody but me. Will be be my wife ?" Just then Jennie and I stepped up another peg, and there was that little old maid, who would not marry the best man that ever lived, hugged close to the man's breast who wouldn't marry the best woman that ever lived, not even to save her life. We came away then, but it's my opinion that thev re- mained in just that position till we rang the bell half an hour later. How did you know ?" 1 asked of Jennie. My dear," she answered, my whole trust was upon human nature; and lot me tell you, dear .goosie, whatever else may fail, that never does ?" Why, Miss Kent, what makes your face so very red ?" inquired Jennie, upon entering; and Cousin Mark, how strangely you look! Your hair is all mussed up." "And I hope to have it mussed often," said Cousin Mark, boldly. Miss Kent and I are to be married this week." Jennie laughed till her face was purple, and when I went upstairs Miss Kent was pounding her baok.-Wave)-ley Magazine.
THE NEBRASKA LOADSTONE.
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THE NEBRASKA LOADSTONE. If there was one man in college whom the Rajah thoroughly and heartily detested it was the captain of the boat club. He had many faults; he was very tall and powerful, and delighted in contrasting the English physique with that of inferior raoes by which he meant, among others, the Rajah's raoe. His manner was abrupt and overbearing, his laugh loud and unmueical. In fact, he grated horribly on the Rajah and it was merely the final straw when, in the exhilaration of a bump supper—full, as the Rajah re- marked in disgust, of cow and strong drink-he oalled that gentleman in play- ful chaff a nigger." The Rajah swore melodiously in Hindustani, and I saw that he meant to be revenged. In thoee days the entertainment of the Nebraska Load- stone created a furore. Everybody went to see her, and everybody came away convinced that she possessed marvellous powers. Her peculiar gift—but everybody remembers the details of the performance, and how the tricks were finally, one by one, exposed, so that her adherents and believers were driven from one position to another, until at last they had to fall back on one single performance out of all those that the Loadstone gave, and maintain that on that occasion at least some- thing unexplained and inexplicable did really happen. It is with the events of that particular evening that I am concerned. I think I can throw some light on them. At first, however, there were many believers and few sceptics. The dean carefully pointed out that Plato nowhere denied the existence of odio force; and the Bursar, who was generally supposed to be little better than an atheist, declared that Spencer in one passage impliedly asserted it; even the Warden, in his sermon, told us that it was better, according to Bacon, to believe two errors than refuse one troth-which was, to say the least of it, sitting on the fence. But none of these authorities shook the robust scepticism of the captain of the boat olub. He knew a oonjuror had told him how it was done, and he was going to expose the Load- stone. But why haven't you ? I urged, She's been here a week." He m not be too hard on her at first," s4id the Rajah with a little sneer, III bust her up this very night," said Waterer. I would have done it before, only I was gated." The excuse was good,and Waterer departed, full of boastings and self-oonfidence, to gather a large number of the noisy men, and make a pleasant party to guy the unhappy Load- atone. I stayed to smoke a pipe with the Rajah. Of course she's a fraud," said he and I believe that animal really has got hold of the right explanation." I shall go and see it," I announced. After a moment's silent smoking the Rajah looked up with a twinkle in his eye, So shall I—if niggers are admitted." After Hall, he and I set out together for the Town-ball. We found the first two rows of stalls occupied by Waterer and hit friends. They were all in evening dress and had obviously dined-not in Hall. The Rajah and I seated ourselves just behind them. The room was full, and the feats were being most successful; each was followed by general applause, broken only by some gibes from our friends in front. These latter grew so pro- nounced that the Loadstone's manager at last came forward and pointedly invited one of the scoffers to submit himself to experiment. Now was Waterer's ohance. He rose in the majesty of his bulk, walked on to the plat- form, and said in. a loud voice, as he settled himself on a chair, If the lady can move me one foot from this chair I'll give her a pony The Loadstone advanced and began to paw him about in her usual fashion. Waterer, who was sober enough to have lost nothing bat his shyness, was apparently too many for her. He was immoveable; and cries of Now then when are you goin to begin ?" and so on, became audible. Two or three minuteem passed, and the Loadstone turned with a gesture of despair towards her manager. "J can't-" she began. I jumped to my feet, crying, Wait a minute I Look! For even as she spoke there was what is scientifically called a solution of continuity between Waterer and his chair. Siill in a sitting posture, but sitting on nothing, he was at least two inches from the wickerwork of the chair. I glanced from him to the Rajah. That extraordinary man was in deep, placid, profound slumber. I jogged his elbow and pinohed his arm he showed no consciousness whatever. I looked at the Loadstone. She was standing motionless on the stage, about a yard from Waterer, with one hand out- stretched towards him and her eyes fixed on his ascending figure; for Waterer was gradually, slowly, steadily mounting in his strange journey. He was now a foot from his chair, still in a sitting position-and up, up, up he was going. The wretch was white as a sheet and gasping with fright and bewilder- ment. Thunders of applause burst from the audience. It was again and again renewed; but the Loadstone did not, as her custom was, bow and smile in response. She still stood motionless, and Waterer still ascended. At last at a height of fully twenty feet from the stage he stopped. Simultaneously the Loadstone gave a loud shriek as she fell back into the arms of the manager—and the Rajah awoke. "I beg your pardon," he said, politely; I was drowsy. Anything going on ?" "No; he's stopped now," I answered, my eyes eagerly fixed on Waterer: The Rajah rose from his seat with a yawn. "Therell be nothing more to-night, he said. Let's go home." Go home, man!—with that before our eyes!" The Rajah shrugged his shoulders. She won't do anything more," he repeated. "Look at her; she's quite done up." And, indeed, the Loadstone looked half dead as she gazed fearfully up at Waterer. Her demeanour was not that of a triumphant per- former. Do sit down," I urged; we must see the end of it." With a weary sigh the Rajah sat down, saying, I'm not sure you will, you know." While we talked the audience grew im- patient. However wonderful a feat may be. the public likes to have things kept moving, They thought Waterer had been in the air long enough, and there were cries of "That'll do! Let him down "Give us another." The manager held a hasty conference with the Loadstone. He seemed to urge her, but she shook her head again and again, and would do nothing but lie back in a chair and pass her hand to and fro over her head. The Rajah looked at her with a slight smile. The clamour increased. I think a sort of panic- an angry panio-seized the audience. "Bring him down! Bring him down!" they cried, pointing to the pallid Waterer, who sat as rigid as a trussed fowl. After another despairing appeal to the Loadstome, the manager came forward and made a lame speech. The Loadstone was ex- hausted with her unparalleled exertions. She mustrest; presently she would bring him down. Then Waterer's friends arose and ascended the platform, they walked about, they stood on one another's shoulders; they made it clear that no cords held Waterer. fA pair of steps was called for and brought. Placed on a sturdy table. they just enabled a man to reach Waterer's feet. One mounted amidst intense excitement. Turning to the Rajah, I exolaimed, Look He was asleep again and th" Loadstone stood stiffly upright, beckoning towards Waterer. Slowly and gradually he des- cended, leaving the man on the ladder grasp- ing at empty air, till he sat again on his seat. The applause burst out, and the Loadstone sank back in a faint on the floor. The Rajah awoke, and the manager dropped the curtain, hiding the Loadstone, Waterer,and his friends from our view, "Give me your arm," said the Rajah, "I am tired." I escorted him to a cab and we drove home. The Loadstone gave no performance the next evening; she was too fatigued; and Waterer was absent from the boat and from the sight of men two days. When he re- appeared he made no reference to his friend the conjuror. He slunk about the Quad look- ing very pale and upset. I met him once when I was with the Rajah, on our way to lecture. The Rajah smiled urbanely at Waterer, and said to me, when he had passed: It's suoh a rude thing to call a gentleman a nigger, isn't it P Waterer has not done it again. And the Loadstone never did that triok again. She took the pony, though. The manager called on Waterer and asked for a cheque. I think that incident pleased the Rajah most of all. "It is a ready utilisation of the unex- pected," he remarked, whioh does our fripud much credit:St. James's Gazette,
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NEWS IN BRIEF. Out of 2,700 Congregational ministers in fihgf&nd and Wales at least 1,600 are abstainers; of 361 students 320 are abstainers. Orders have been received at Cowes to fit out the schooner-yacht Aline, belonging to the Prince of Wales, for a winter cruise. A man named Kolaeko shot and killed his wife, Lizzie Kolasko, in Cleveland, Ohio, because She would not return to live with him. Mr. Pope, the eminent Q.C., assures us that no man ever won real success at the Bar who had not got something of the dramatic instinct in him. A cocoanut tree that weighs six tons is, it is said, to be transported from Honolulu to the public park in San Francisco. The Russian peasants in the district of Jekater. inburg have literally nothing to cat but birch ieavee boiled in water. The certificate of Captain Osborn, of the steam- ship Advance, was suspended on Friday at Shields for three months, for sailing without having the compasses adjusted. At Burnley on Friday a collier named Smitbson was committed for trial for attempting to murder his wife by cutting her throat. The wife is the mother of thirteen children. The Rev. Richard Casey was sentenced to two months' imprisonment at Waterford on Friday for taking part in the recent political riots. Some others were sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment. Notice of appeal was given. There is said to be a remarkable family living in Polk County, Ga, The name of the family is Liles. The mother is said to be 107 years old, her oldest living child 92 years, and her youngest 62 yeara. One of the largest of the steamship companies of London has just contracted for its coal supply for next year at a price which is about 2s. per ton below that paid for the current year's supply. A five-days' mail between Canada and a port in the English Channel is soon likely to be an accom- plished fact. The port in question is not yet decided. The Furness lino of steamers would undertake the contract.. Vienna is enjoying exceedingly mild weather. Floods are threatened in Carynthia owing to the heavy rainfall. At Meran the town band still plays in the open air under the trees, from which the leaves have not yet fallen. Miss Rockefeller, a daughter of the American millionaire, while a student at college, took some of the money allowed her by her father, and paid the expenses of another young lady who was too poor to secure an education. Lord Kilcoursip, the eldest son of the Earl of Cavan, and aide de camp to Lord Stanley, and Mr. Eustace Crowlie, 12th Lancers, have been on an extensive shooting expedition in the Western States and Canada. Desecho, an island adjoining Porto Rico, is in- fested with rats. There are millions of them there. They have destroyed all the goats which were formerly bred there, and are now eating the shrub- bery. Police-const-ible Peter Robinson, of the Liver- pool police, was fined 10s. and costs for being arunk, and, as he did not appear, a warrant was granted for his arrest on a charge of assaulting a Mrs. M'Sorley, in Walton-road. The sum of t4,600 has been paid as a result of the Lifeboat Saturday Fund in Manchester. It was resolved to make the effort an annual one. It is stated that Stockport and Bolton and other places have followed the example of Manchester. At Wolverhampton on Friday Albert S. Eanes was committed for trial charged with obtaining money by false pretences. It was alleged prisoner adver- tised for wrapper writerilp who, after forwarding 4s. as guarantee, heard no more. Bernard Kelly, a Dunfermline labourer, was found dead in a back lane in Dunfermline at u late hour the other evening. Kelly had been drinking in the early part of the night, and it is supposed he had stumbled into the lane and had died from exposure. In the Sheriff's Court at the Manchester Assizes an overlooker named Barlow has been awarded 9350 in respect of injuties sustained by him in a collision at the Bolton station of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in January last. At Manchester on Friday the Manchester Ship Canal ordinary £10 shares, wliich were quoted on Thursday at 78s. 6d., fell to 68-. 6d. The fall is attributed to local feeling in connection with the construction of the canal. Later in the afternoon, the stock showed slight signs of recovery. The Manchester Evening Times, the fit-st number of which appeared so recently as the 1st of October, announced on Thursday that its indepen- dent existence would terminate that day. The copyright has b?en secured by the proprietors of the Manchester Evening Mail. Mail advices from Constaminople received at Marseilles state that a serious riot recently broko out on board a Turkish man-of-war, which was conveying troops to that city. Tho disturbance appears to have originated in a gambling quarrel. The soldiers came to blows, and before order could be restored several men were killed and many injured. A corporal in the Leinster Regiment, stationed at the South Camp, Aldeishot, appears to have been unpopular with his comrades, and four of them seized him, placed a rope round his neck, hung him to a tree, and left him. The atlentiou of a sergeant was attracted to the spot, and he managed to cut the man down before life was extinct. The corporal shows signs of recovery. The value of prizes won during the last five years by the Windsor herds belonging to Her Majesty exceeds £ 2,000. The awards in the years 1887-90 included twenty championships, thirty- eight first prizes, seventeen second prizes, eight third prizes, and one fourth ptizo-.a total of 84 prize-, besides a large number of high commenda- tions and commendations. It is announced that the Royal Commission for the Chicago exhibition are now prepared to receive applications for space in the British section. Such applications ore to made upon forms, which may be obtained at the offices of the Society of Arts, London, where also information can be procured as to the condition of the exhibition, the charges to be paid for space, &c. On Saturday the menr.bers of the survey staff pTeseuted Mr. Nerite, the principal officer of the Board of Trade of the South Wales District, with a handsome pair of bronzes and a timepiece, bearing the following inscription:- "Presented by the members of the survey staff, as a token of their respect and esteem, to W. H. Neate, Esq., principal officer Board of Trade, South Wale", on the occasion of his retirement, Decem- ber, 1891." A young German nnmed Cirstenson went to the York Hotel, Albemarle-street, Loudon, a day or two ago and engaged a bed. As his appearance raised some suspicion, his bag was opened and found to contain a quantity of coals and firewood. The prisoner was then given into custody on sus- picion of intending to commit a felony. He said he meant to pay for everything he had. He has been remanded by the magistrate at Marlborough- street. Iron mym: Tliree prizes of respectively 1,000 murks (150), 2,000 marks, and 5,000 marks are offered by the Spediteur und Rhederei Vtrein (Shipping and Fo, warding Company), of Ham- burg, for the three best chemical methods or mechanical arrangements for the prevention of spontaneous combustion in coal cargoes. Com- petitive treatises will be received up to July 1, 1892, from engineers and chemists of any nationality." In 1770 a chalybeate spricg wns discovered in the Grange-road,London it was purchased by an artist named Keyse, who spent £4,000 on laying out the gardens and building a pump-room and picture gallery. The spring was christened Bermondsey Spa, and for a few years was extensively patro- nised but after a while ita popularity decayed, the gardens were shut up in 1804, and Ie only remembrance of Bermondsey Spa exists in the Spa- road Station. One curious effect in connection with the Electric Railway in South London is the way in which the earth currents affect the working of the magnetic instruments at Greenwich Observa- tory, although the building is miles away. An ingenious electrician on the line of the railway has placed outside his house an indicator, which, by the action of the earth current, shows when an electric train is approaching, and in which direc- tion it is going. Under this heading the Manchester Guardian gives publicity to a statement by a correspondent that Mr. Bott, the inventor of the pneumatic gun, has invented an apparatus which will tend to revolutionise the fuel consumption of the country and practically place the coal deposits where they were twenty years ago, A public test will be made in a few days, This invention, tile Guardian is assured, is as great an advance on present methods as the compound lowaotive is over thttJ'RockeU* The Duke and Duchess of Portland are expected in York this winter. The Irish National Fund has now reached Y,1,707, Mr. Shaw Lefevre has given X58. At Jarrow-on-Tyne on Monday Thomas Wbodf was remanded charged with stabbing his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson have taken up their quarters at the Chief Secretary's Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin, ¡-to Heavy snow fell at Dijon on Thursday night and Friday morning. In Paris the temperature if vernal, with bright sunshine. Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, bur consented to be a patroness of the Church Society for Providing Homes for Waifs and Strays. It has been decided to impose quarantine upon several steamers which have reached Antwerp from Brazil with cases of yellow fever on board. Mr. James Fellows, Agent-General for New Brunswick, left London last week for a tour round the world. Mr. Fellows made a large fortune by the sule of patent medicine. Sir Charles Hayter Chubb, chairman of the finance committee of the Royal Naval Exhibitiorr, writes to contradict the statement that the surplus of the exhibition is from Y,50,000 to £ 70,000. The National Conservative Club in Pall Mall has now almost reached its limit of 2,000 home members, and the committee are considering the question of making an entrance fee after the end of next month. The fishermen of Plymouth regard the result of the Plucky court-maitial as emphasising theit demand for an independent inquiry. Besides the danger to boat- they bitterly complain of tile firing scaring away fish. Tha Marchioness of Londonderry has gone to Bath to take a course of the waters, in consequence of a gouty affection from which she is suffering; The marchioness was not well before leaving Wynyard Park. a Recent statistics have shown that there are 7,000 locomotives in use in France. There are also 47,590 stationary engines in Fiance and 1,856 marine engines under the French flag, A mad woman entered a signal-box neat Leicester on Saturday evening, and smashed the telegraphic and other instruments. She was very violent, and nearly overpowered the signalmaix, but was eventually secured. The numbpr of passengers carried on Egyptian railways in the year 1890 was 4,696,286, as against 4,378,453 in 1889, being an increase of 417,833. The number of miles 3f line open in 1899 was 960, as compared with 945 in 1889. On Saturday night two fishermen captured ft shark seven and a half feet long off Bray. The men were herring fishing, and the shark got entangled in their nets. They had a struggle before landing it, the nets being entirely destroyed Signor Crispi is at present engaged in writing his memoirs, which will, it is said, contain some very interesting documents referring to.tlie events of 1859-60. The memoirs will not, however, bo published until after the ex-Premier's death. At Liverpool a medical student, named Frank Archibald Cregeen, was committed to the approach- ing assizes for trial on a charge of concocting, with intent, a noxious drug for a young woman named Lily Lloyd.
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