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'— GRUESOME TALE; BY RICHARD DOWLING. itithor of A Baffling Quest," "The Mystery of Kiilard," The Crimson Chair," &c. Glastonbnry-street lies in that dull, depressing ^gi(in between Westminster Bridge-road and It is a poor street, but not poverty Itriken. At either end are a few struggling shops, Witch will neviT struggle into prosperity. Here *il-men sell Jug.ir, and milliners take weekly pay- ments, and confectioners keep toys, and green- roceis store coal in their parlours 'for sale. But is only at the two ends that business establish- ments are to be found. The great majority of houses have hall doors with knockers, and «iamo.l areas protected by rusty and dilapidated •filings. The street is reputable, and considered highly ^spectable bj those who live in it. Stolid Managers of third-class businesses, who married /oting and have largo families, dwell here and let fcdp-ings to innumerable clerks and assistant £ *anagers of third-rate businesses. The lodgers jipok neat and now and then even smart, not to l^ydressy and the householders wear frock-coats, ;*nich never seem either quite new or painfully Shabby. Although it is not considered quite correct for "Usewives to leave their front doors open while i?Xehanging visits "in their hair," a good deal of informal social intercourse takes place between Adies in the daytime. Each lady knows the affairs of ten or a rioz -n houses up and down on "lther hand and of a couple of dozen opposite. Of three hundred houses in the street, every fty form a section, and although no feeling of delusiveness prevails, the sphere of interest does 1. 4)t extend throughout the whule fltreet. The inhabitants are divided into communities by the Greets of intersection, and confine their active Jyin pat-hies to the dwellers in their own blocks. *l';e cross streets are of inferior social standing And do ]lot count it all. It will be seen that to live in a corner house is jo be shorn of half one's right to local observation, ft>r the denizens of Giastonburv-street can no Itlore carry their interest across one of the lesser 'hoiougiifaies than a witch can take her body ^er running water. The corner honse where Croyland-street cut Flastonbury-stree,t on the south was rented by Thomas Fennell, a mild, plain-looking little man, 'he accountant in a timber wharf in Beivedere- "oad. Unlike most of the other householders, he lad married late, was quite forty when he '^signed his liberty to Susie Bowden, barmaid the Reel Lion, and accounted the prettiest girl lb "Tiie Road," as Westminster Bridge-road is We respectfully and affectionately called. When the good-looking and sprightly young tirl of twenty married the silent, plain, middle- iged accountant you may be sure there was talk. Sonne said Fennell was a fool, others held that Su>iie was the fool and all agreed that no good bould come of the match. Many thought, though Perhaps they did not say it, that the Sooner the ttlevitabJe scandal arose the better for everyone. Months went by and brought no scandal. When the Fennells were a year married, a son *nd heir arrived. After this neighbours became a disconsolate way resigned. For, they con- sidered, if poor young Mrs Fennell did not rebel *ud brtak av.ay from the dulness and dreariness 4nd loneliness of that house when she was there 411 day by herself, it was not likely she would jjecome discontented when she had a dear little »»by to love and look after all day long. The Fennell household consisted of the husband, wife, child, and servant. Although it ^as believed Fennell had saved money in bis bachelorhood, the interest on it and his salary Vould not, Mrs Grant often said to Mrs Loftus, ^arrant the people at the corner in renting so large a house, unless they had lodgers in view, feut more than another year went by and Bobbie kad a little infant sister, Alice, and Mrs Fennell >?as looking, if possible, still more lovely than kver—and yet there was no lodger. .One winter morning, when Mrs FenneH's infant laughter was just beginning to,walk, Mrs Grant, Leavmfc her front door open, rushed into Mrs ^oftus's, breathless, and in a state of wild excite- ment. At last 1" cried Mrs Grant, when she recovered "featli. It's come at last. Look!" The visitor ^oftus's, breathless, and in a state of wild excite- ment. At last 1" cried Mrs Grant, when she recovered "featli. It's come at last. Look!" The visitor {tainted with a fat hand, which shook with excite- ment, at the corner house opposite. "Has the fire and brimstone fallen on it?" Nked Mrs Loftus, with the calmness of one who view what might be expected. (Mrs Loftus took interest in nothing but prophecies concerning Ithe end of the world). "Fire and rubbish," cried Mrs Grant, with Jcorn, She was tired of her friend's Last Day. 'It's a lodger. I knew they must give up in the 'fid. Their foolish pride won't pay the lent. Mrs Loftus rose, not m the very best humour, stood in her own parlour window. Sure enough a strange man could be seen in jjennell's first floor window through the bars of balcony. The lower part of that window-door **as of wood. v "Oh, what a handsome man," cried Mrs loftus. I declare I don't think I ever saw a handsomer man. How do you know he is a °dger ? How do you know he isn't a visitor v," Well," said Mrs Grant, "for one thing the fennells never have a visitor, and for another the man told me that the milkman saw Jhree great chests and a portmanteau carried .ltlto Fennell's this morning. Besides, don't you ?ee the man is reading his newspaper, quite at ^Oine ?" ¡ What is he ?" asked Mrs Loftus. I don't know. No one I spoke to did know, d I asked a good few. Not a soul saw him go Ilto the house. He did not arrive with the lug- age that came in a van. The milkman says the odger must have slipped in overnight, for he was tttiug in the window reading when the van drove p. Think of that. Fancy the nice kind of odger a man must make, who wants to sit in his window and read at half-past seven in the morn- ing It's awful, Mrs Grant. I'm sure I don't now what lodgers are coming to but it doesn't Matter for a while. I know what we are all Coining to—we're all coming to the end of every- thing." The day before the handsome lodger came to he cj; ner house the servant left it, so that the Qeigbbi'urs had no means of learning from her Anything about the newcomer. The very day the lodger came the neighbours ere scandalised to see that lovely young crea- ture," with her infant in her arms, talking for a. Qrjg tllle to the stranger in the drawing-room Window. This was very bad. So soon, too. It as a disgrace to the street and ought to be topped, for no one could suppose it would end in Anything but discredit to the district. There was another circumstance, too. which ade the neighbours angry—it was impossible to 0 clearly what was going on in that window- Mace, owing to the balconv, a bar or the pillars of *h ch afcvays came exasperatingiy in the way._ I When a week had gone by absolutely nothing Was known of the lodger except that his name \vas James Tonson, and this only by inference from the fact that lettars for James Tonson were delivered there. It got abroad that although there was now £ }ore work for a servant in the corner house the «ennell's were going to do without one. Of course, my dear," said Mrs Loftus to Mrs Want, they don't want a servant over the road. ■A- seivant would be in the way, my dear. A ser- vant would know too much of the goings on. Do fou notice that Mrs Fennell always has her in- [*nt in her arms when she is with him, never her Robbie is able to chatter now, and might tell ?*t poor old fool Tom F> nnell something But the child or someone else ought to tell ennell. I should not wonder if fire came down ^Pon that house, and it isn't safe for properly- ^fiducted people to live so close to it." "Did you notice how free :ind easy he is with ?" said Mrs Grant. "Now, he looks a gentlo- and stiil when she comes into the room he Jays down his book or paper, and never ''•fids up. Before I'd be treated like that in my house I'd walk him downstairs by the ear "d put him into the street." "And he never goes out," said Mrs Loftus. To my certain knowledge he has never been out of the house. There he sits all day long fading or talking to her. and the banisters of the ?*lcony for ever in the way. It isn't to be "or ne." j. "One of my lodgers that's at the brewery in said Mrs Grant, "told me he /?k"d Fennell if Tonson was an invalid, and Fennell said Tonson was ouo of the strongest in London, and could tear up a pack of 2j*da all together, just like the Emperor of ^Jssia." f « And I put up one of my young men that's at YV harf to say I knew where the very servant i?r them was now that they have a lodger, and ^e,»nell said they did not mean to keep a servant, if Mr Tonson would not like one. Just think of rj?*t. It is my belief that hussy opposite made fr.0t>son say that. What could vou expect from a J' who had been a barmaid in The Road V I Vou can reasonably expect nothing—but fires lj heaven," said Mrs Loftus, with a little confu- in her reasoning. man in London spoke less of his private ft'rs in his place of business tlian Thomas ■bvjjnell. He hardly ever referred to them at the One Saturday in August he mentioned V *he clerk who had offered to get a servant for that he was going to Ramsgate to engage jgings for the holidays. (v*talf an hour later Mrs Loftua called on Mrs fcFfit and said mysteriously, Mark my words, HjJJt we have so long expected will happen to- ti," said Mrs Graafe, who was quite worn out k with prophecy, it's the Last Day, my dear, how can It happen by night ?" It's not the Last Day I'm speaking of, it's the last of that shameless hus^y. Take my word for it, she'll be off with that Tunson this very night. Keep your eves open. You will see." Mrs Loftus was piqued by the way in which her friend had spoken of the End of the World. and would j say no more. Mrs Grant resolved to watch. She guessed Mrs Loftus had got information from the Wharf. !3he took up her position in the window of her own parlour. What she saw was this :— Between three and four Fennell came tothefront door with o black bag in his hand. His wife, carrying the baby in her arms, accompanied him toseehinwff. He had crossed the threshold when he turned round and stepped back, as though he had forgotten something. Instead of fetching anything out of the house, he merely put his arm round his wife and kissed her. He bent and kissed the infant lightly, as though afraid of waking it. Then he tripped down tha steps with an unbecoming affectation of youthfulness. He turned round and kissed his hand to his wife. Shfl kissed her hand to him and made a bold gesture as though she would embrace him. He raisad his hat and hurried away. The cat's gone out," thought Mrs Grant. Now for the mice." Mrs Fennell came forward a little and kept looking after her husband, as a sentimental fool might think, wishing to see the last of hm), or as j a middle-aged woman of experience would think, to be sure ho was really gone, leaving the coast ek'ar. He did not face about again, and when he had rounded the corner Mrs Fennell went into tlle home and shut the door. Five minutes later this brazen young woman was standing in the drawing-room window, with her sleeping baby in her arms, chattering to Tonson and smiling at him and nodding at him in a way to bring a blush into the cheek of any person with a well-regulated mind. Why all the corner houses, and only the corner houses, should have balconies, no one could tell. The balcony of the opposite house was really a great trial. Shortly before five the lovely young creature opposite left the window, no doubt to get the tea. Mr Tonson took up the book he had put down on her entrance, and resumed his reading. Mrs Grant went to get her own tea, and when she came back the lodger had left the window. It was dusk before any other movement re- warded Mrs Grant's vigil. Then she saw a light goo upstaIrs; Bobby 1'ennell was being put to bed. Later the drawing-room blinds were lowered, the curtains drawn, and the lamp lit. If mi elopement was to take place to-night, there was no need of a ladder of ropes from the balcony. The husband was away, and all the shameful pair need do was to open the front door. But the woman had put her boy to bed. Was the uunatural mother going to leave her child behind to die of fright and hunger ? That would be a hanging matter for both the criminals. At dark the front door opened and a figure appeared, only one figure, that of Mrs Fennell. She earned her baby in her arms. She closed the door after her and glanced up at the front of the house. Was this the look of final leave- taking ? Streamed a small basket in the hand that snpported baby that might be borne with the object of leading simple people to suppose she was going to market. Mrs Grant now went to supper. When she came back to her post at the window after an absence of half an hour, she was sur- prised to lind the street dim with a summer mist. She could see the house opposite well enough, but some of the details were lost. For instance, the balusters of the balcony were always clearly visible by night in the light of the street lamp at thp. corner, but now they were blurred. The lamp shone on the blind of the drawing- room. The lodger might have gone out and left it burning to deceive simple folk. She had noticed that Mrs Fennell had left the lamp burning in the hall (there was no gas in the house), but someoue must have turned it up since, for the glow on the fanlight was much brighter than half an hour ago—much brighter and much more unsteady. Stop. The glass in the fanlight had cracked and fallen with a, loud crash on the doorstep. Merciful heavens The house was on Sre Fire Fire Fire Could it be this guilty woman had set the house alight, before leaving tt, to hide her flight; and shame I could it be—oh, monstrous thought! that this woman had locked up her child with death in that house ? The man must have fled while the watcher was absent from this room Mrs Grant ran shrieking into the street. At the same instant Mrs Loftus flung open her door and jostled against Mrs Grant. It's the fire and brimstone," said the latter, exultingly. It's the paraffin lamp in the hall, said the other. Who's in the house?" asked Mrs Loftus. "I was at supper." "There's only the eldest child, if Tonson is gone. She put the boy to bed and took the infant óut with her." If the lodger is out!" cried Mrs Loftus scorn- fully. Do you think they'd set fire to the house till they were both clear ? If there was a man in the place he'd show himself. I wonder she didn't leave the infant too." At that moment Mrs Loftus was seized by the arm. A voice whispered into her ear. An arm pointed to the flaming door. My child 1 My boy Mrs Loftus turned and saw a face she will never forget to her dying day—a face of frantio agony. The speaker had her infant on her arm, and her little market basket hanging from the hand on which the sleepmg infant lay. My child My little boy My husband's dariing Is he out?" The two women were silenced and silent. Won't you tell me ?" wailed the mother. Tell me he is out." She tottered as she appealed to them for tidings of mercy. "Is the lodger in the house?" asked Mrs Grant, with tears of pity in her eyes. "Yes." Then he will save your boy. He will get him out in a minute. No one can get in. The hall is inflames." Oh, my God, Mr Tonson cannot save my child. He is With maternal instinct she dropped her infant into the arms of Mrs Loftus, ill falliusr unconscious to the ground. Take the poor thing into my house," said Mrs Loftns. I said the hardest things against the sweet young creature." The scene did not occupy two minutes. Meanwhile the flames were eating through the door and rushing in huge roiling tongues outward and upward through the fanlight. A man had dashed off in wild haste for the escape and engines. Minutes must go by before the firemen could arrive. Ingress from the street was im- possible, the door being barred by flames, and there being no area stairs. The crowd stood helpless, paralysed, horror-stricken. The flames reached the window on the landing over the door. Would the fire-escaps never come ? A few more seconds and t.he child and the lodger would be dead. Oh, heavens Were those people to die while a dozen men in the little crowd throbbed to risk their lives in rescue ? Rescue How? All at once the drawing-room window was burst open. People in the crowd groaned, believing flames had penetrated that room, and had obtained possession of the whole front of the building. But no flames issued through the window no stick or stone had been seen to account for the crash, and no figure blocked the open doorway on the balcony. Stay! What was that moving in the window near the nuor ? A dog ? Bigger than a dog—and yet no taller. Bulkier than a dog—clumsier in action. A bear 1 It must be a bear, for it wa.s crawling across the low sill of the window just as a bear would crawl over a low obstruction. First one paw, and then the other, and then a dragging motion. But there was neither dog nor bear in the house; that creature was too big for a dog and too short for a bear besides, what was that large white mass in front ?—a large white mas. a bundle of soma kind ? What sort of animal could this be ? The crowd drew back in fear. The creature might at any moment fling itself over the balcony tearing and rending those near whom it fell. The creature reached the balustrade of the balcony, with the bundle now behind it, and with incredible strength and speed was moving its paws along the top of the balustrade and working its short body along towards the corner away from the fire, away towards the end of the balcony in (Jrayland-street. From the front of the balcony to the flags of the area Was twenty feet. From the end of the balcony in Oroylond-street to the footpath was only mne. creature, now flat against the railing, looked like a huge vampire bat. It was broader than long. No higher than a man's hip, with enormously strong fore paws or arms, and a head huge out of all proportion to its bulk. How hideous How terrifying How odious Merciful powers, these were the arms and head and truuk of a man Nothing more than the head and trunk and arms—nothing more—and the large bundle—a sheet with something heavy in it—s'ung on the bask of this incredible figure. So much the crowd saw as the extraordinary creature approached the street lamp at the corner of Croyland Street. When full in the light a.nd they could see the face a shout arose Hurrah It's the Lodger The bunch on the back of the lawless man plunged wildly about. Steady, Bobbie." said the voice of the figure. Steady, child, and I'll do it yet I" He's got I'Vnnell's little boy in the bundle," shouted tho crowd. Hurrah hurrah hurrah Tonson! With amazing strength of hand and arm alone the monstrous figure wriggled along the rail of the balcony. He would not endure a servant in the secret of his deformity. Ho approached the windows under cover of the curtains. To save his own life he would not have exhibited his body to a score of the gaping crowd. For love of the little child of the woman who had been kind to him he braved the eyes of hundreds instead of awaiting in secret tho death whioh would come to him as a deliverance. When he reached the end of the balcony, onfce again exercising his prodigious strength of hand and arm, he raised his body on the rails, hooked himself on by the arm, swungr his body over the non work, and, holding the sheet in one hand and the rail of the balcony in the other, lowered the child and dropped himintothe eager, outstretched hands that rose above the sea of faces, shouting acclaim. Then by a superhuman effort of his strength he drew himself up with one hand to the top rail, once more, and flung his body on the floor of tho balcony in front of the windows, through which the flames were now flowing with heavy roar. Did he mean to die after all ? A shout of horror leaped from the throats of the crowd. Was this supreme hero going to fling his life away ? Fling his life away now that he bad won fame? He drew himself up to the front of the balcony and lifted himself by his hands until his face was over the rail; then, in a voico whose fierce strength and volumo seemed to drive the flames behind him back through the window, he cried— All the tune I was in her house she never seemed to know I was deformed. I have shown myself to you to save the life of her child. I would not lift my hand to save my own life. This death,' pointing back to the flaming window, "Iilas bet-n sent for me. It is mine. Noonohasanghtto come between me and it. I will not survive the laughter of your eyes and the jeering ot your tongues." No No We do not laugh We do not jeer Come down "Bah You like spectacles. Bah! to you! Yon like to see a fire, and you like to see a monster The fi-e-escape Hurrah Tho engine We'll have him down We'll carry him shoulder high." Bah! to you. Look at the fire 1 Look your last at the monster They are one and lD. divisible." With a fierce yell of triumph he unhooked his arm from the rail, dropped on the floor of the balcony, crowded to the window he had burst open, and disappeared for ever m the smoke and flame.
ALLEGED FRAUDS AT MERTHYR…
ALLEGED FRAUDS AT MERTHYR VALE. On Saturday, at the Merthyr Police-court— before Mr North, Mr Sinyth, and Mr C. H. James—Thomas Bates, tiinberman, was charged with obtaining, by means of false pretences, from Mrs Margaret Morgan, Aberfan Hotel, Merthyr Vale, wife of the treasurer of the Merthyr Vale Colliery Workmen's Sick and Accidental Fund Friendly Society, the following sums, viz., £3 8s on the 3rd March, 1891 £2 2s on October 13th, 1891, and 26s on the 25th Novem- ber, 1891, the moneys of Henry Morgan, the treasurer of the society, and others. Mr Charles Kenshole, Aberdarr-, appeared for the prosecu- tion, and Mr J. Phillips, Pontypridd, for the defence.—In each instance it was alleged that upon the production of an order by the accused, who was the secretary to the society at the time, the money referred to, belonging to the members of the society, was paid over by Mrs Morgan in behalf of her husband, and in each case the money was represented to be due to Mr George Williams, Glebeland, Merthyr, for printing, the 26s being mentioned as a balance.— Mr George Williams said these sums were not paid over to him, and nothing was due to him during tha periods named excepting that in November, 1891, the sum of 12s was due speci- fically, and not as a balance.—Michael Thomas, 5, Aberfan-road, Merthyr Vale, one of the present secretaries, said he had seen no books kept by the accused excepting the minute book. Bates had declined to hand them over. There was no entry in the minute bo k authorising payment of the bills.—The accused was further charged with obtaining on the 26th March, 1891, the sum of J611 from Margaret Morgan. In this case it was alleged that accused obtained the money upon the representation that it was due to Thomas Pearce, one of the trustees. —Mrs Morgan said her husband was treasurer to the society, but he was unable to write and she acted for him.—The accused reserved his defence, and was committed for trial to the quarter sessions. Bail was accepted for his appearance. Wm. Jayne, who was one of the trustees of the society; was charged that he being a bailee of the sum of £47 13s, the property of George Evans and ot In-did steal tho said sum, on the 23rd July, 1892.—Mr Charles Kenshole was for the prosecution, and Mr James Phillips defended.— The accused was committed for trial, and admitted to bail.
THE SAD CASE AT SWANSEA.
THE SAD CASE AT SWANSEA. Miss Gamwell Before the Magistrates. At the Swansea Police-court on Saturday— before Messrs J. C. Fowler (stipendiary), W. Walter, and W. Rosser—Miss Jane Gamwell was charged by her brother, Samuel Clearstone Gamwell, with stealing a portrait album and five books, his property.—Mr Gamwell said that last September he bad occasion to go to London, and he wrote to defendant asking her not to visit his house during his absence, because he did not want his mother, who was living with him, to be disturbed. She went, however, and on his return he found that the boxes had been removed. He had since had an opportunity of looking through the boxes, and he found in them the books in question, which he identified as his own.— Miss Gamwell; If you say those books were stolen you charge me falsely. It was at my mother's request they were taken.—Mr Gamwell The bjoks are mine.— Miss Gamwell: A good many of the photos in the album were mine. You must remember there is a will, and I had a. perfect right to take them. —Mr Gamwell I made a remarkable discovery, your worships, while searching my sister's box. My sister is in possession of a will drawn by a Mr Thomas Davies, solicitor, of this town, and he has nominated his own father executor of the will, which hands over on the part of my mother my property to my sister.—Detective-Inspector Gill gavefevidence of asking Miss Gamwell to wit- ness the searching of her boxes. She said, There may be some things in the boxes. My mother helped me to pack them. She packed more than I did. You know what mother's are."—Miss Gamwell here said I am willing the boxes should be searched. If there is anything there it was put there by my mother. I think it is ridiculous for my brother to bring me here on such a charge as this.—The Stipendiary (address- ing Miss Gamwell) said if she did not keep the recognisances to keep the peace under which she was bound she rendered herself liable to be kept in prison the whole of the term, for she must understand that the pence would have to be kept. The suggestion that the books had been given her by her mother would have to be inquired into, and since Mrs Gamwell was too ill to come to court her depositions would be taken. For that purpose an adjournment would be made till Thursday.—Defendant was therefore remanded. No application was made as to bail.
CARDIFF -6UARBIANS AND THE…
CARDIFF 6UARBIANS AND THE PRESS. At Saturday's meeting of the Cardiff Board of Guardians Mr Mildon moved that in future reporters should be admitted to the committee meetings of the board, explaining that he did not in his motion include the assessment committee, which was not under the control of tho board. It might be argued, be pointed out, that as they had often very delicate matters discussed in com- mittee the presence of reporters might be against the interests of the ratepayers, but his experience as a member of the Cardiff Council, where all the committees were open to the press, was that in no single case had a reporter abused his position. (Hear, hoar.) Counoi llor F. J. Beavan seconded the motion.—In reply to Alderman Jacobs, Mr Mildon said his motion did not include the sub-committee meetings. — Mr Watkina expressed the fear that if reportars were admitted committee meetings wouki be unduly prolonged, seeing that some members of the board were so well versed in "spoutology." (Laughter.) —The motion was agreed to,
SERIOUS OOAOHING ACCIDENT.
SERIOUS OOAOHING ACCIDENT. The Press Association's Uxbridge correspondent telegraphs that on Monday afternoon Viscountess Curzon and her son had a narrow escape. They were on the box of a four-in-hand on Cbandler's- inll, near Viscount Curzon's Buckinghamshire seat, when the reins got twisted, and the coachman was called to assist in dissentangl- ing them. The horses, however, gave a sudden plunge, and the vehicle was overturned, throw- ing Lady Curzon and her son out, but they escaped uninjured. The coachman was not so fortunate, the coach falling upon him, fracturing several of his ribs, one of which, it is feared, pierced his lungs, and be now lies in a very pre- carious state.
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DUDUS DISCONSOLATUS.
Longer than ever.—Never. Instead of life b (u) oys.—" Man the lifeboat. The two besbsbips in the world.—Courtship and friendship. He (gallantly): You look younger every time I see you.—She (simply): I have to. The besmirched candidate profitslittleby a bath in the waves of popular indignation. Perspective does n't apply in politics-tb. higher up a man gets, the bigger he gets. The hen that sits on a porcelain egg may not accomplish much, but she has on nest intentions. Every man owes something to himself but what he owes other people is what bothers. Tenement-house dwellers often make a house divided against itself that the police cannot stand. It is said that a woman has more 'onour than a man but this is not the case when she is dressed for a ball. Judge How do you know the prisoner made a great disturbance ?-Pobceman: He woke me up. The peculiar feature of the rhinoceros in Cen- tral Park is his mouth, which ranges from an open vahse to a candidate's smile. WOULD BE ONE HIMSELF.—" I hear your son is taking lessons on the flute." "Yes he's study- ing with a private tooter." Huntsman has a good game-dog." Is that so ? "Yes he saw a Welsh rabbit on the side- board to-day, and stood it." Holmes: What qualifications has he for a diplomatic position ?—Je&erys Well, he has been for years a successful portrait painter I THE THRRE BALLS.—Fangle: Baseball has given place to football.—CUMSO Yes and foot. ball will remain until driven away by snowball. WAITING.—Ada: No; Priscilla will never marry unless she finds her ideal.—Ida What sort of man is her ideal ?—A man who will propose. FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.— Did Dunley's marriage involve any financial responsibility Oh, yes his wife requires him to earn enough to pay his laundry-bills." CONPENSATION.—Fagan An' doos n't yer short miroorv give yez a ghreat dale o' trouble Moike ?—O'Rourke Shure, Tim, it's the coorse av me loife, ixcipt whm Oi goes to confession. THE IDEA !—Miss Summit: You didnt't bow to Miss Penstock when you met her on the avenue yesterday.—Miss Palisade Bow to her 1 Well, I should say not. Why, she only had seven layers m her cape. Pinckney (bitterly): Our marriage was purely a commercial transaction. You bought my name with your fortune, as you would buy cloth at a store.—Mrs Pinckney (more bitterly): Except that I neglected to get my change. The Brooklyn justice who treated the Viking navigators with such discourtesy ought to go to a fancy dress ball disguised as a donkey, 80 his friends can say it is the first time be ever failed to make an ass of himself. Students have been expelled from Russian universities for Nihilism. At American colleges the students are often suspected of being know- nothings in one sense of the word, and not in the political sense, either. AN UNFORTUNATE ENDING.—Doctor How are you getting on with that cod-liver oil I gave you ? —Dashaway I took one dose of it and then got sued for damages.—Doctor What do you mean t —Dashaway The bottle hit a passer-by on the head. A WARM SHOULDER.—Etcalf: What's the matter, old boy ? Got the influenza ?—Metcalf Atchoo atchoo Do, but the evedigs are cool, ad by fiadoee's had her waists in pepper ail subber. DUDUS DISCONSOLATUS. It takes nine tailors to make a man, Hence Chappie is quite undone For try as hard as ever he can He's trusted by only one. WHY HE HESITATED.— GUS De Smith What do you say to going hunting next Sunday ?— IIostetter McGinnis I'd like to go, but I'm afraid a storm might blowup.—Gus De Smith; The deuce you say I I didn't know you were married. AMONG THE LAWIERS.—"Barker, what's your opinion of Marlowe Do you want my pro. fessional opinion or just my casual impression V —" Well, professional."—" He's an What is your casual opinion ?"—" He's another ass."—" What's the difference?"—" I charge twenty-five dollars for the first." She posed before the camera, In all her cultured grace Each curl was at its curliest, Each frill was in its place. She fondly deemed her attitude A miracle of ease. Said the fiend behind the camera, Now look intelligent, please I" THE YANKEE SENATE. The senate's clothed in dignity. Its togas bear no spots Its boots are solemn foot-gear Its shirts are without dots. But we pause somewhat in wonder, And really it's no jest, To find a silver lining Within its only Vest, The young comedian had announced his inten. tion of essaying the part of Hamlet. His sister was rather annoyed at his audacity. "Isn't that rather ambitious 1" she asked. "Well," replied he, what of that! Wasn't Julius Caesar ambi. tious ? "Y e8, of course," said she, but hardly to that extent." Caller (to business manager): Yesterday I put an advertisement in your paper for a servant.—Business Manager (blandiv): Yes, sir, and what was the result 1—Caller I had so many answers that my front door steps were worn and my bell pull broken. Will you please have them repaired I Three rgirls are exchanging confidences, and telling each other what sort of men they hked best.—First girl I like a man with a past. A man with a past is always interesting.—Second girl: That's true but I don't think he is nearly so interesting as the man with a future.—Third girl: The man who interests me most is the man with a present. You are always complaining," said the King of the Cannibal Islands to his wife, though I don't see but what, after all, you have as much as if you were civilised." What makes you think that ?" asked his wife. Well, I have been reading a lot of stories about English women, and there wasn't one of them who had anything to we& Young Arthur, who is forbidden to speak at table, had his revenge. At dinner he was very uneasy, and finally said, Mamma, mayn't I say just one word ?" You know the rule, Arthur." Not one word ?" No, not one, my dear." At a. later stage Arthur was asked what he had wished to say. Oh, nothing—only Mary put the custards outside the window to cool, and the cat's been eatiug 'em all the time." Old Friend What became of that beautiful full-length portrait of yourself and your first husband ?—Mrs Twotimes: It is hidden away in the garret. My second husband has never seen it yet. I'm keeping it for a surprise.—" A sur- prise ?"—" Yas. If he ever again givtss me a ten- cent. bottle of perfumery for a Christmas present, I'll give him that painting for a New Year's present." THE LATEST CRAZE.—MrSowerby created some surprise the other day by announcing his inten. tion of taking his family south this winter. How can you possibly spare the time V asked a friend. —" I can't spare it," he said. "But you see, there's a craze for alligator-skins among the women.folks at our house, and it's cheaper for me to go to Florida and shoot alligators than it is to stay in New York and buy shoes and satohols for my girls." SMOTHERING A GREAT IDEA.—Mr Marrowfat had been reading something about a new system of reform-schools, when an idea suddenly struck him, and glancmg across the table at his wife he observed, My dear, if we ever should have a boy" Ztdekiah 1" exclaimed Mrs Marrow- fat, interrupting him, "isn't there a bill before Congress forbidding anybody to speculate in futuresAnd, somehow or other, that seemed to turn Mr Marrowfat down. Mr Justice Hawkins was oalled up to assist; ft special jury in the Queen's Benoh Division in a case involving very delioate questions of taste in ladies' wearing appareJ. The plaintiffs, manufao. turers of clothing, sought to recover damages which they had sustained through the refusal of the defendants, dealers in the same goods, to re- ceive a large consignment of "ladies' skirts." made to their order, on the plea that they were not according to sample. Obviously the point to be decided was whether the underwear was according to sample or not, and the jury could only arrive at a conclusion on the point by per. sonal inspection and comparison. Mr Justice Hawkins, alive to the difficulties of the case, suggested that a jury of matrons was the proper one to hear It, and his hint to withdraw a juror was acted upon. Some critics of the customary judicial declaration of ignorance about matters of common knowledge may smile over the fact that the learned judge expKued no dyubfc of bis own capacifcw*. v'
Y GOLOFN GYMREIG.
Y GOLOFN GYMREIG. Dymunir i'n gohebwyr Cymreig gyfeirio eu goheb- iaethau, llyfrau i'w hadolygu, &c., fel y canlyn: Dafydd Morganwg, Morganivg House, Llantwit- street, Cardiff.
-----------E X T R AO UDINARYB…
E X T R AO UDINARYB AM KING CASE AT LLANDILO. At the Llandilo County-court on Friday— before his Honour Judge Bishop—an action was brought by Mary Davies, farm servant, Caegroes, against Messrs D. Jones and Co., bankers, Llan- dilo, to recover the sum of £ 43 ls 6d, the amount deposited in defendants' bank In the joint names of herself and Rachel Grifdths, and which had been decreed at a previous trial to be her money. MrS. T. Evans, M.P. (instructed by Mr J. W. Nicholas) appeared for the plaintiff; and Mi Villiers Meager (instructed by Mr T. G. Wil- liams) represented the defendants.—Mr Evans stated that the money had been deposited by the plaintiff and Rachel Griffiths in the bank at various dates. At June court the plaintiff claimed a deposit note, and a jury found that the money was the plaintiff's, and that she could take it out when she liked during h«r life. He argued that, in consequence of that decision the bank would be sufficiently protected by paying the money to the plaintiff.—Mr Meager said the bankers did not consider themselves sufficiently protected, as they wore not parties to that decision.—Mr Evans said that an indemnity had been offe-ed to the defendants, and the result of the bankers' con- tention would be that the money would be re- tained in the bank until the death of one of the claimants, so that money which had been decreed to be the plaintiff's could not be obtained by her. He added that it was extraordinary conduct on the part of the bank. First of all they submitted by their counsel that all they wanted was protection, but when he tendered an adequate indemnity they declined to accept it, and said they could not pay up the money without the endorsement of both Mary Davies and Rachel Griffiths, which they knew it was impossible to obtain.—His Honour said he had no doubt that the bankers were well able to protect themselves, as bankers generally did, in nine cases out of ton.—Mr Evans, con- tinuing, said the defendants had been offered any protection or indemnity they desired, but they refused to accept it.—Ultimately the case was adjourned, upon the application of the plaintiff's counsel, with a view to consider what course she should pursue in view of such refusal.
AT EIN GOHEBWYR.
AT EIN GOHEBWYR. 41 Yr Ysgubor."—Y mne yd yn hon hefyd. "YDeuad." "Y Morgrugyn," "Y Diogyn." —Ymddangosant yn eu tro. "Lili Fremiol, &0. Bcddargraff."—Yn eu tro. Yr Oriiiwr."—Ymddengys. •'Verlie."—Pert ddigon. < II Y Bedd."—Cynimeradwy iawn. Mae rhai o r cynghaneddion yn gywrain, fel blodau ar y bedd hwn. "Hen Fab Gweddw."—Mae llawn ddigon wedi ei ganu i hwn bellach; felly ceisiwch destyn arall, "Ymson yr Hen Langc."—Mae yr un cynghor yn briodol yma etto. "Cân y Cardotyn."—Yr ydych yn medru'r golfyddyd yn eithaf da. Y cam uesaf tuag at lwyddo yw deall y gwahaniaeth rhwng bardd. oniaoth a rhyddiaeth odlog. Ymddengys y daman er mwyn eieb caloiiogi j ond nis gellir gwneyd hyn "yr wythnos nesaf." Y mae'r darnau canlynol yn gymmeradwy, tItC i ymddangos yn eu tro:—"Ty ar y Tywod, "Ty ar y Graig," "Codi'r Bys Bach." Seren Bethlehem."— Nid wyf yn cofio i mi weled hon o'r blaen; a blin genyf nad yw'r odliad yn ddigon celfydd. Dylasai'r llinell gyntaf odli &'r drydedd, 11.'1' burned &'r seithfed, yn mhob pennill. Treiwch etto, frawd. Mae arnryw wallau yn y darn i "Seindorf Pres C—d—1." Ymddengys "Cartref," a,'r toadaid H Coffa."
CYSTADLEUAETH Y GOLOFN.
CYSTADLEUAETH Y GOLOFN. Derbyniwyd cyfausoddiadau yn dwyn yr enwau canlynol i'r gystadlenaeth, a chant sylw mor fuan ag y gellirEdward Dafydd o Far- gain, Eiddil, Arfronydd, Brysgwyllt, Dyohryn. edig, M. M. Bateman, Hen Rigrymwr, Edeyrn Dafod Aur, Liesmeiriol, Hebrewr, Pererin, Llwch V Hawr, Pleutyn Amser, Caleb ap Jephuneh, Naturiol, Will y Cwm, Ap J.»sse, loan Brudd, Egwan yn mhob Agwedd, Himon o Cyrene-20.
Y NADOLIG.
Y NADOLIG. Awdwr daear, a Duw'r duwiau,—a ddaeth Heddyw'n ddyn fel ninau, I lawr byd o'i ddysglaer bau,— I dy ych mewo cadachau J Birchgrove.. CoBLLWYN.
NADOLIG.
NADOLIG. Nadolig l1on! mae'th nefol drem Yn llawn gogoniant Duw, Da.w Genedigaeth Bethlehem I mi yn adgof byw. Fendigol ddydd rhyw dori gwawr Yn banes enaid dyn Wyt ti, yn llawn goleuni mawr— Goleuni Gras ei hun. Myneg-fys wyt, O! ddydd-gwyl pur, I lwybrau'r cariad rhad, Pan o awyrgylch sanctaidd, glir, Daeth rbodd ddeheulaw'r Tad, Hoeanna moliant, megys ton, Ddyfera dros bob niin, A theyrn lioll ddyddiau'r ddaear gron Yw ein Nadolig cun. Llansamlet. B. B. WILLIAMS.
NADOLIG.
NADOLIG. Gyfeillion mwyn Hon, Drwy Gymru o'r bron, Gwraudewch ar fy nghaniad, Heb un gwrthwynebiad Mi roddaf gyughorion caredig, I Gymry twymgalon arbenig:— Na roddwch sarhad Ar heniaith ein gwlad, Yn nghanol mwynianau'r Nadolig Sirioldeb o hyd Fo'n llanw eich bryd, Heb unrhyw genfigen, Ond bywyd bach lIawen J Yr uchel a'r isel yn ddiddig Fo'n plygu i'r Dnw anweledig Na. fydded un croes, Ond Uawnder a moes, Yn nghanol mwynianau'r Nadotfg. Pob chwaer a phob brawd, Gwnewch gofio'r tylawd, Sy'n gwaelu mewn angen, A chwithau yn llawen 0, bydd wch i gyd yn garedig, Mae r Gwyliau yn amser nodedift I gotio pob un Sy'n waelaidd ei lun, Yn nghanol mwynianau'r Nadolig, Chwi feibion i gyd, A merehed teg fryd, Na roddwch i'ch gilydd Sarhad na gwaradwydd; Ond byddwch bob pryd yn garedig, Gan ochel arferion llygredig, Rhag ofn i'ch Tad Eich taro mewn brad, Yn nghanol mwynianau'r Nadolig. Penderyn. GWILYM CADLAN.
-, Y CENHADWR,
Y CENHADWR, Gwr eirian a gwir arwr—yw'r gwresog A'r grasol Genhadwr; Yn ein Duw y mae yn dwr—• Angylaidd Efengylwr. Efengylwr yw'r hyf wrol1,-foria Ar ferwawg lu'r eigion A iach y dyg, uwch y don, B€r nwyddau'n bur "newyddion." f* Newyddion da" 'r Oen baeddol—a garia I ddig oror estronol; Hoenus gan ei gynes gol, Hael noha mewn hwyl nefoh Nefol faddeuant nwyfus,—gu, addien. Gyhoedda yn hapus; A'i bur rawn rydd, heb yr us, I groes enaid gresynus. Gresynus, byll, gras-anial—a glywa'i Lais glewaidrl, diatal; Da, hyfwyn, a dihafal, Yn ein Duw o hyd mae'n dal. Dal y Groes hynodol gref—i fyny Wna'n fwynaidd mewn tangnefj Yn ddifraw, ei law a'i Itf Gwir gynes ga Aer gwiwnef. Gwiwnef ei enaid gweimawl-yw rhoddi'r Gair addien tragwyddawl; Golud gwyn, teg wlad y gwawl, I'r ynysoedd oer, noeawl. Nosawl gaddug hen oesau—a gilia O'r golwgj rhag golau Haul y Gwir, chr a clau, A'i dywyniad llawn doniau. Doniau Et'enpyl dyner,—cu enaid Y Cenhadwr llonber Adfywia, a dyga'n der 'R annedwydd i rin hoewder. Hoewder, trwy'r gwr hynodol,—yu iesin Deyruasa yn rasol; Egwan ffydd y pagan ffol Eanga,—gedy'r ingol. Ingol ac anfoesol fyd—arweinia At wirionedd hyfryd, Fod yr Oen mewn hoen o hyd, Er beiau, 'n maddeu'r bywyd. Bywyd addas cymwynilSwr-addien Yw eiddo'r Cenhadwr; A rhodio'n fwyn waredwr Dyn ar goll, y w^doniau'r gwr. Treforia. TREFOEPIJB.
CYWYDD COFFA
CYWYDD COFFA Am Mr. Samuel T. Daviea, Bircbgrove. Hynod iawn, ar haner dydd 2 Harddwych, flodeuog hirddydd, t, Wele, daeth rhyw gwmwl du f O dywyllwch i'n dallu! A Angel ingol marwolaeth Yn ddi-swn yrodd ei saetb, Anelodd hoff anwylyn, Y di-goll gymeriad gwyn, I A rodiai lwybr anrhydedd, V Heibio IiwyH y byd dihedd., Ow! Sam sydd wedi ei synmd, Yn wael ei wedd i fedd yn fud Hiraeth a siom i'n brathu sydd. A chwerw boen a chur beunydd. Gioes hir i Eglwys Saron, Rhwygiad erch fu'r ergyd hoa. Ei sedd yn y Cwrdd Gweddi O'i 01 yn wag gwelwn hi. Mae cyfaill y Gyfeillach Yn mwynhau hedd mewn bedd baeb. Rhanwr addysg yr Ysgol, Yma ni ddaw mwy yn ol. A'r llais a ganai mor lion, Gludai Ion o glyw dynion, Ei alw ga'dd ar eiliad, (. I fyny i Dy oi Dad, 0 olwg pob rhyw elyn, I Yn sant, i'r gogoniant gwyn,—* tf Lie na wel neb o'r helyth Hanes bedd na dunos byth. Drwy'r byd, o'i febyd i'w fedd, Eirianu oedd ei rinwedd. Dyeglaer Gristion union oedd, Nodedig, hynod ydoedd. Ar ei daith fer, doeth a fu, A bychan fu ei boohu; i Ac am Sam. nid oes ytnn Nebun dd'wed na bu yn dda, Na, rhyw 8wn parbaus o'i ol A ddywed, "Bu fyw'n dduwiol." Bircbgrove. CORIXWTN.
MARWOLAFTH Y FLWYDDYN.
MARWOLAFTH Y FLWYDDYN. (Alaw—" Llwyn Onn.") Mae'r flwyddyn yn marw ar wely angsuol, Dan rewynt gauafol yn welw ei gwedd; Yi»giliodd yn araf ei thlysni boreuol, A'i blodau swynhudol syrthiasant i'r bedd. Yr adar fu gauwaith yn goglais ei chlustiau, Wrth chwareu mwyn danau lion delyn y byd,-— JDystawodd eu oyngan pan gollodd y cangau Eu gwyrddion delynau o'r goedwig i gyd. Mae'r flwyddyn yn marw yn nghanol dyataw- rwydd, Yn ebrwydd eheda o draethell y byd, Fel gweddw oedranua ar fynwes unigrwydd, Ai phlentyn ieuangaf yn marw'r un pryd; Ei thegwob a gollodd pan dnenodd yr hydref Garpedi gauafol dros ddyffryn a dol; Prydferthion y flwyddyn a gipiodd o'u tangnef, rw cloi yn y glyn nes daw'r gwanwyn yn ol. Mae'r flwyddyn yn marw. ond dyna ryfeddod Fod dyn yn ei bechod o hyd yn cael byw! Fel hyn yr ArfaetbWyd pan ydoedd y Trindod Mewn Undod tragwyddol,—'Ewyllys Nef yw!' Wrth erchwyn ei gwely mae engyl yn gwyUo. rw chludo yn dawel tu arall i'r Hen Tra morthwyl hen awrlais y teulu yn tard Tie olaf y Flwyddyn ar ben. r iilubdaiot ,< X<utf03 WXIUK
SHIPBUILDING IN THE UNITED…
SHIPBUILDING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. Considerable Falling off in 1893. The tcnnage of new shipping constructed in private yards in the United Kingdom (says the Pall Mall Gazette) this year totals 883,874 tons, representing the measure- ment of 742 craft. The British merchant tonnage is 710,000 tons. This is 65,000 tons more than the losses, wrecks, &c., of British ships recorded by Lloyd's Registry for the past year. This excess, however, is much less than in previous years, due to less shipbuilding. Including the displacement of nine vessels built in the Royal dockyards 31,640 tons- the total production of the kingdom is 915,514 tons. This is 385,000 tons, or a fourth, less than in the previous year. The falling off is great when comparison is made with 1S92 and 1891", and is due in part to the less number of warships constructed. Tho sail ton- nage, which totals 134,036 tons, the measurement of 234 vessels, is only half what it was in 1892, and very much less than it was in 1891. In the latter years it bore a propor- tion to the total merchant tonnage of 24'5 and 20'2 per cent. respectively. This year the ratio is 15"4 per cent. The tonnage of steamers shows a very great decrease on several past years, the aggregate being 749,838, the measure- ment of 508 vessels. This is 225,000 tons teas ar, in other words, only two-thirds of the steam tonnage of last year was built this year. If comparison is made with the three preceding years, the drop is still more remarkable, being in the case of 1889 about 30,000 tons. In the total of 1889, too, a comparatively small number of warships were included. The total power of the marine engines constructed throughout the kingdom duriug tho year is 917,354 indicated horse-power, as against fully a million indicated horse power in each of the three preceding years. One of the most re- markahle features, says Engineering, is the de- crease in foreign-owned tonnage built in the kingdom. There has been a steady decrease over a series of years, from 293,093 tons in 1889 to 58,290 tons this year. In 1889 other nations took 22'37 per cent, of the tonnage produced, and this decreased to 151 per cent, last year. This year it is 17'94 per cent. Norway in three years has taken 100,000 tons. The total tonnage for British owners is 725,532, a larger proportion of total than in recent years.
NEW ORGAN FOR ST. JOHN'S,…
NEW ORGAN FOR ST. JOHN'S, CARDIFF, Handsome Gift. The vicar had an unexpected piece of good news for the congregation for the parish church on Sunday morning, nothing less than the announcement of a Christmas gift to the church and parish in the shape of a new organ, to cost £2,000. He prefaced this announcement by de- tailing the facts which led to the munificent offer being made, and then read the following extract which ho had received from the generous doner a short time since. I always read your annual report with interest aud sympathy, and the one received this day especially so. For in reading the account of your various wants, I was specially struck with the necessity of your having a new organ for St. John's Church. I, therefore, beg to offer to undertake the cost of one, and hope to hear of its erection speedily. I shall be glad to hear whether you have fixed on a. budder, and I assume, of course, that the instrument will stand in the chancel. I have only two conditions to make; one is that the organ shall bo worthy of the building, and the other that you will preserve entire and absolute secrecy as to the name of the donor until after his death. I assume the cost will be about £ 2,000." The vicar hoped the fact of receiving such a gift would kindle a readiness in the hearts of the parishioners to aid generously and freely in raising the money still required to remove the liability attaching to tbe building fund of the new Church ot St. James. He asked them to do it first as a thank-offering, and next m emulation of the good deed of their unknown friend. He would like to open St. James after Easter free from debt.
WELSH UNIVERSITY.
WELSH UNIVERSITY. The Charter Completed. The charter of the University of Wales, which was passed by the Queen in Council on the 23rd of November, has now been duly engrossed and sealed and delivered to Messrs Faithfull and Owen, 11, Victoria-street, Westminster, the soli- citors to the University Conference. The charter, as completed, oocupies ten skins of parchment, engrossed m a handwriting, though not so ela- borate or ornamental as that of the Red Book of Hergest, is considerably more legible to the ordinary reader. The first page is decorated with a stamp of the amount of JB30, the fee for which the Treasury has courteously remitted, as well as all the other lees connected with the passage of the charter. On the last skin appears the great seal of the realm, not in the picturesque fashion of the older times, impressed upon half a pound of wax and attached by green ribbons, but m tbe more modern form ot a large red wafer glued on to the parchment itself. It has been arranged that a public banquet shall be held in Shrewsbury early in 1894 in connection with the meeting of the Joint Intermediate Education Conference, at which the charter will be publicly produced though, considering its length, it will presumably be taken as read."
FINANCIAL POSITION OF GREECE.
FINANCIAL POSITION OF GREECE. The Government and the People. According to intelligence from Athens, public meetings were held at Tripolis and Nauplia last Sunday to protest agftinst the policy of the new Government. At both gatherings resolutions were adopted to the following effect :—That the Chamber should be dissolved, as not interpreting the real opinion of the country, and that the people of Greece had not been consulted as to whether they approved the recent acts of the Government for breaking faith with its creditors. It was pointed out that M. Trlcoupis, by a single stroke of the pen, annulled his own law making duties on certain articles payable in gold, which was the basis, so to speak, of finding the loan, and which had been passed aud ratified by tbe Chamber and signed by the King. The Govern- ment has a large majority in the Chamber, who remain staunch to M. Tricoupis, honestly believing tho Premier to be the only man capable of eventually bringing Greece out of her present nnancialdimcutties; but among the Press, only one paper, the A sip, supports him. Hence the feeliug prevalent in the country that the majority in the Chamber does not represent public opinion. The King is consequently placed in a most diffi- cult position, but it is believed that his Majesty, respecting constitutional procedure, will abide by the decision of the Chamber so long as M. Tricoupis enjoys the confidence of the House.
. A MISER'S MISERABLE END.
A MISER'S MISERABLE END. Dr. Danford Thomas held an inquest atJMaryle- bone concerning the death of Peter Knightley Templetnan, aged 58, a bookseller and publisher, of 23, Groat Portland-street.—The Coroner said tho information furmshed to him showed that deceased, though possessed of means, had sadly neglected himself in every way, and would not allow anyone to assist him in his business or domestic affairs.—Mrs Lucy Bishop, a widow, stated that deceased, her brother, was a bachelor. He kept four rooms of the house for himself, &nd let the others. The deceased was most eccentric, and would not take good, nourishing food. On Thursday she found him dreadfully ill. She begged of him .to have a fire and also a doctor to see him, but he would not listen to her.—The Coroner asked if it was true that the deceased had means. —The witness replied that he had plenty of money and house property, but he was a miser. —The Coroner said he was informed that the old man had lived principally on hot water and bread.—The jury returned a verdict in accord- ance with the medical evidence.
THE JOKES OF OTHER COUNTRIES.
THE JOKES OF OTHER COUNTRIES. Mr Traill contributes to next month's New Review an amusing but rather melancholy fore- cast as to "The Future of Humour." It is a sad sign of the times, he thinks, that we in England are driven to importing our jokes as we do our cheap goods. Certainly what he calls" an attempt to internationalise humour has not so far proved a success, and one cannot but agree with him that its effect upon English- men has been rather lowering. What else could have been expected ? Made in Ger- many" is not a legend which promises much for the commodities that it covers, even thouerh they be made expressly for the English market—an end which is certainly not kept in view in the manufacture of foreign jokes. Yet there was a time when American humour had its oharms for us. Perhaps it was more fresh in the days of Artemus Ward; or, perhaps, the enormous increase in the quantity of humour imported from the United States has brought about a deteriora- tion in quality. At any rate, it no longer satis- fies. But that wo shonld seek the "Humour of Holland "or "Humour of Japan"—for on both of these have handbooks been written—shows a really pitiful inability to call up a home-made smile.—Daily Graphic.
FOOTBALL IN AMERICA.
FOOTBALL IN AMERICA. William Conant Church, writing in the "Century Illustrated Magazine" upon football in the American colleges, says that this gams gives an outlet for the super- abundant animal spirits which might otherwise find expression in the usual college pranks. It compels its devotees to keep good hours, to observe strict rules of tem- perance IU diet and drink, to refrain from the use of tobacco, to select the most nourishing food, and to be systematic with cold baths, rubbing, and healthy exercise. It teaches, moreover, what American youth most needs to learn—prompt and exact obedience to instruc- tions. I am on the football team," was the explanation given by an undergraduate when he was asked as to the abandonment of injurious babit and from Harvard comes the report of one gilded youth who was permitted to remain at the college after his day of probation had passed, in view of the fact that he had joiqe^ th& football lean. < 1i
THE WRECK ON GRASSHOLME ISLAND.
THE WRECK ON GRASSHOLME ISLAND. Extraordinary Conduct of the Crew. Dr. Lloyd, deputy-coroner for South Pembroke. shire, held an adjourned inquest at the Globe Hotel, Angle, on Friday last, touching the cir- cumstances attending the death of Captain John II Owen. a native of Carnarvon and late master of the schooner Ellen, which was recently wrecked on Grassholme Island, Pembrokeshire.—The first witness called was William Gould, who deposed I live at 42, North Penrallt, Carnarvon. I was mate on board the schooner Ellen. We sailed Irom Frederickstadt, in Norway. We were bound for Cardigan, with a cargo of flooring- boards. All went well until we got to Milford Haven, where we put in for water. On the morning of the 6th inst. we left Milford to proceed to Cardigan. The weather was then fine. We had a pilot Oil board named David Pritchard, who was to take us over the bar, which was accomplished safely. All went well on the following day until midnight. When we were about eight miles off the South Bishop's Lighthouse we encountered a gale blowing from the north-west. Tho schooner became water- logged, and we ab once got the pumps to worir, but failed to keep the water under, and, therefore, had to drift before the storm, and about 6.30 a.m. on the 8th inst. we ran ashore on Grassholme Island. The crew consisted of John Owen, master John S. Roberts, seaman, of Carnarvon and Samuel R. Coxley, also of Carnarvoa; David Pritchard, the pilot, and myself. When the schooner struck we all got on the foreyard and dropped ashore. I was injured in the side. The skipper was at the wheel when I last saw him on board. He did not come* ashore with 118, and I cannot say that he eventually reached land. When I next saw him he git-ting upon a stone on the shore. He seemed juiable to answer us when we spoke to him. He was conscious, but could not walk. This was about 10 or 11 o'clock on the morning of the 8th inst. As he could not walk, we carried him to a more sheltered place, and rigged up a sort of hut consisting of boards and turf. In this we put put the captain. We remained on tho island until midday, Saturday, the 10th, when wo were rescued by the steam trawler Birda. Whilst he was on the island the deceased never spoke to us. I noticed. a small cut on his lip, but he had no other injuries that I know of. We SUFFERED MUCH FROM EXPCSUEB and want of food and fire after we got ashore. We last partook of food on board the schooner at 3 p.m. on Thutsday, the 7th. The deceased seemed to feel the exposure more than the rest of us, and at night we put him between us to keep him warm. When tho Birda came to rescue us she sent a small boat which got to within two boats' lengths of the shore, and then a Jine was thrown ashore and a lifebuoy attached to it, and by that means we were drawn into the boat, and then taken on board the steam trawler, and afterwards landed at Milford. The skipper was left in the hut we had made. We had to climb down the rocks to get at the life-line thrown from the Birda, and being all so weak we could not assist the skipper down the rocks. There was an exceedingly heavy sea running at the time, and the boat's crew were unable to land. The pilot was a cripple, but the other two men tried to help the skipper and faded the pilot managed for him- self. I was the last left on the island, and told the deceased we were going, but he did not seom to understand me. We were treated well on board the trawler. Whan we found the deceased on the shore on Friday, the8th, I thought ho was dying, and that he could not be saved. When we got into the boat I told the orew that the deceased was behind, but they said they could not; do anything more for him. When we reached Milford we told the Custom- house authorities that the deceased had been LEIsT ON THE ISLAND. Between 4 and 5 o'clock on the Saturday after- noon another steamer towed the lifeboat out to the island, but did not succeed in effecting a landing. I left Milford on the following Monday morning, the 11th inst. Nothing had then been heard of the deceased, and the gale was over. On Sunday, the 10th, there was too much wind blowing or we should have gone out ourselves to the island. We had passes from the Royal Humane Society to go home, and were bound to start, as the passes expired that day. The Ellen was a schooner of about 103 tons register, and was owned by the deceased. She was a good age, and, although seaworthy when wo left Milforo, was not a good boat. She was not overloaded. I sailed on her about three years ago. She behaved well at sea. The deceased was quite sober between leaving Milford and the time when we were wrecked. The next witness examined was William Nightingale, who said: I was boat- swain on the steam trawler Her Majesty when she went out on the 9th inst. It was about 6.30 a.m. We were going out trawling. We saw a small flag on Grassholme, and at once bore away for that island, and put out a. small boat and tried to land, but failed. We then came back to Milford for the lifeboat, and went out again about four in the afternoon. While wo were at Milford the steam trawler Biida brought in the survivors. We then went out with the lifeboat to fetch the skipper, but again failed to land, so we left the lifeboat at Angle and returned to Milford. On Monday, the 11th, we went out again, and having tied a rope round our waists, watched our chance and jumped ashore. When I got ashore I found the deceased lying in a but about 600 yards from the shore. He was quite dead, and I thought he must have died about 12 hours before I discovered him. We discovered him about 12.30 on Monday, the 11th instant. Tbe hut had fallen in on him, and we had to remove the debris bafor3 we could get the body out. We took the body aboard and brough t It to Angl, There was no other evidence given, and the deputy-coroner having summed up, the jury re- turned the following verdict :—" That the deceased, John Owen, died on Graesholme Island, in the county of Pembroke, on the 10th instant, from exposure and deprivation of food, following shipwreck."
DISASTER OFF THE FRENCH COAST.
DISASTER OFF THE FRENCH COAST. Arrival of a Shipwrecked Crew at Cardiff. Eight of the crew of ship Sodium, of Pas- bro, arrived in Cardiff on Saturday, after experiencing shipwreck off the French coast. The names of the men (who are mostly Danes) are P. Larsen, mate; A. Hammaelof, second mate; F. A. Matson, steward; C. Toon, — Selo, M. Pattersen, A. Schonnoos, able-bodied seamen and Rodriguez, ordinary seaman. The ship Sodium, which is of 296 tonnage, left Philadelphia, U.S., for Sables d'Olnnne, in France, on the 1st. November, laden with general merchandise, and on the 8th December took on board a French pilot to convey her into Sables. On the following morning, between two and throe o'clock, while the vessel was running in on the port tack, the pilot gave the order for starboard. After shouting this three times, the helmsman answered his order, with the result that the ship was grounded on the rocks. They laboured hore for some tim<?( but wero unable to got off, and the crew decided to abandon her. The captain, the second mate, and three of the crew got on the break- water by crawiing along the foreyard, and were fortunate in reaching land. They then, by means of a rope, succeeded in hauling m the whole of the other members of tho crew. The officers lost all their effects, but the seamen were enabled to get ashore their outfits. At the time of the wreck there was a stiff breeze blowing from the W.S.W., but the vessel was carrying only topsails and staysails, The British consul at Sables, on learning of the stranding of the men, ha.d thorn sent to St. Nazaire, and thence they came as passengers m the s.s. Penzance to Cardiff. With the exception of the captain and one ordinary seaman, all the men are being lodged at the Sailors' Home, Stuart-street.
TERRIBLE HURRICANE.
TERRIBLE HURRICANE. A Queenstown correspondent telegraphs:— H.M. Battleship Resolution has arrived here in a aamaged condition, having lost a lifeboat and one seaman washed overboard. The torpedo catcher Gleaner, which left Plymouth with the Resolution, is missing, and grave fears are enter- tained for her safety. Both vessels sailed from Plymouth on Monday for Gibraltar, and en- countered a hurricane in the Bay of Biscay on Tuesday, when the Gleaner was "lost sight of, and the Resolution had to make for Queenstown. It appears that the Resolution had a terrible experience in the Bay of Bisfcay, and that it was as much as she could do to ride out the storm. She was practically submerged for several hours by the terrible seas whioh broke over her, and tons of water got down below. Several of the crew were knocked down and injured. Much damage was also done to the decks. The Resolu- tion is a new ship, and this was her first voyage. It is stated that during the height of the storm on the 19th inst. the Resolution rolled 40 degrees each way. She will steam from her present moorings to the Government moorings, riear Haulbowline Docks, aud will require to take on board 600 tons of coal. Her stores will also I have to be replenished, a quantity of her stores having been destroyed. Captain Iiall has landed at Queenstown, and visited Admiralty House. The Press Association learns, upon enquiry at the Admiralty, that the Gleaner arrived at Argosa Bay, Galicia, Spain, on Friday, and has now left for Gibraltar. No communication has yet been received at the Admiralty regarding the damage to the Resolution.
MURDER AND SUICIDE AT LEICESTER.
MURDER AND SUICIDE AT LEICESTER. A dyer's labourer named Tolley, aged about 30, living in Blue Boar-lane, Leicester, on Satnrday shot his wife. aged 20, in the head with a revolver, and then cut his own throat, inflicting a terrible gash. The woman died on her way to the infir- mary, and Tolley himself did not survive many miuutes. They had only been married two years. The man had recently been out of employment. Tolley and his wife lived unhappily together. Only a fortnight ago she sutrimoued him before the magistrates for assault, and they then separated. Mrs Tolley going to reside with her mother. Tolley went to tbe house on Saturday and some words parsed between them as to dividing the furniture, when the man shot his wife and then cut his throat in another room.
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I TIN-PLATE WORKERS' UNION. Meeting at Swansea. The special session of the council of the South Wales, Monmouthshire, and Gloucestershire Tin- plate Workers' Union was resumed at the B;rd- ln-Hand, Swansea, on Saturday. Mr Lewis Richards (president of the Union) was in the chair. On tile previous day there was a careful revision of a portion of the amended rules pro- posed for the working of the Union, which rules having in some instances been further discussed were adopted, and wiil come into operation on the 1st of January, 1894. In rule No. 2 boxers were excluded from membership of the Union, but the council decided in favour of their admis- sion. In regard to rule No. 3, which states the objects of the Union, it was proposed as an amendment that the Union should not as such participate in Parliamentary or municipal ejections. This suggested amendment roceivsd the most meagre support, and it was accordingly lost. I Rule 4—After discussion it was resolved that the words one branch" (to embrace mills and tinhouse) should, be expunged, the divisions remaining as they were. It was, however, felt that where there could be a coalition of the two branches it would further the interests of the Union. Rule 6 now provides that the editor of the Industrial World and the organising agent, and also one vice-president of the Union, shall be. come members of the governing body. At the council held at Cardiff a decision was arrived at to exclude the vice-president, but this decision it was now considered advisable to reverse. Under Rule 7 the sum of 10s shall be allowed a.s the limit of arrears to be incurred by a member. If this be exceeded, he shall be disqualified to act as a delegate. Each delegate to bring his sub- scription card to the council meeting. It was decided that all members of the execu- tive shall be elected at the annual council. This matter evoked a long discussion. An Aberavon delegate said that the new system would enable the strongest district to return to the executive council the whole of its seven members, and he strongly disapproved of that. Another delegate said it was immaterial as to where the men were found, but the best should be looked for. Under rule No. 9, executive members shall in future vote at council meetings. In rule No. 14 it was suggested that the trade editor should be subject to six months' notice on either side. An amendment that three months be substituted for six months was lost. The appointment of organising agent was dis- cussed at considerable length. As an amendment it was moved that he be in future empowered to deal with questions in dispute. It was pointed out that the general secretary had hitherto been successful in adjusting matters in dispute, and it was argued that a change was undesirable. This view was generally adopted. It was understood later in the meeting that the organising agent wou'd commence his duties forthwith. Mr David Randell, M.P., put in an appearance at the meeting of the council on Saturday, and was very warmly received. A resolution was moved by Mr J. H. JOHN" approving of the action of the Government in reference to the Employers' Liability Bill. This was seconded by Mr HENRT DAVIES, Cwmavon. Mr DAVID RANDELL, M.P., said the Govern- ment were determined to oppose the House of Lords' amendment in reference to the contracting- out clause. The hon. member proceeded to hold out strong encouragement to tin-platers in regard to trade prospc-cts, and said be had it on the b«sfe authority that there were better days coming. He left the meeting at the conclusion of bis speech, and amidst the plaudits of those as- sembled. Before Mr Randell left a hearty vote of thanks was given to him, the supporter of the resolution stating that he would express himself in the words Well done, good and faithful servant." The resolution was carried unanimously, and it was decided to send a copy of it to Mr Gladstone, Lord Salisbury, the Home Secretary, Lord Swansea, and Mr Wm. Williams, M.P. An amendment to the 16c.h rule, that the executive should consist of five members instead of seven, was lost. Rule 21, as amended, stands thus" Any member on strike, finding employment, if earning 12s, shall have that sum supplemented to the extent of 9s a week if 16*, 7s to be added 18s, 5s 21s, 4s. It was argued in favour of the amendment that the terms above named would encourage men to obtain the best price they could for work done outside their own trade. Mr SAUNDERS asked the revising committee whether the proposition or the amendment was in harmony with the principles of unionism. He expressed the opinion that the proposal involved the encouraging of tinplaters to take work at less than the proper rate. As already indicated the amendment was carried. At this stage there was an animated discussion as to what could be done in reference to the make question. It was stated that many of the works were still faithful to the 36 box rule, amongst these works are Clydach, Avon Vale, Glanamman, and Melin. The Melin delegate said they made 36 when they could, but they were working only every other day, and he was ashamed to say that only a few yards distant from the Melin'Works they were making 40. 50, and even 60 boxes in a shift. The council expressed themselves very strongly on this matter, and it was decided to make special efforts to bring the disloyal into line. Rule 28 includes the following paragraph :— Branches must see that young bands should not unduly press their claims to promotion." And the following addition was made: The em- ployer ehall be allowed to employ one practical hand to two promotions." Mr THOS. BENJAMIN spoke on this matter, and pointed out that it was un important resolution, seeing that some of the employers are now seeking to introduce six hours shifts, and thus flood the tinpiate trade with surplus labour. It was decided with regard to Rule 30 that the office of the general secretary shall be removed to Swansea, the general secretary and organising agent to reside in that town. The follo wing proposition was lost:—" Every branch shall bo held responsible for the distribu- tion and sale of copies of the Industrial World equal to 7S per cent, of its membership." The Kidwelly delegate said the British public liked to choose their own literature. The majority of the counoii decided, after warm discussion, that "any person holding official position in the Union communicating tin- plate news to newspapers unless directed by the council or executive shall be dealt with as persons militating against the success of our official organ, and injuring the property of tin-plate workmen." The PRESIDENT (although a. member of the revising committee) strongly objected to this clause. The Clydach delegate said the daily papers could be used to the advantage of tinplaters. As a.n amendment to Rule 40, it was resolved that the treasurer and secretary of each branch shall remain in office durmg the pleasure of the said branch. The latter portion of the rules, which did not include matters of importance, were hurried through. A hearty vote of thanks given to the revising committee, and also to the president for his impartial conduct of the proceedings, brought to a close a most harmonious and successful session. The Clyne Works. It is stated on the best authority that the workmen at the Clyne Tinworks, at a meeting held to consider the ultimatum of the employers, in which they demanded that the men should agree to a reduction of 10 per cent. trom their wages, resolved to accept these terms rather than face an entire stoppage of the works. This departure from the standard of wages established in 1874 will be regarded with some amount of concern by those who contemplate the present unsettled gtate of tho labour market from the workman's point of view.
A STORY OF THRUMS."
A STORY OF THRUMS." Monsen's Barrister and the Book, A good story is told of Mr Comrie Thomson, who defended Monson at Edinburgh. Scotch- men are, of course, naturally fond of law, and in the easy-going country towns many a case finds its way into court which in the rush of London life, would never be thotight of. In Thrums lived a merchant tailor who ordered from a friend, a book agent, a complete set of an Encyclopaedia which was published in monthly parts. All went well till the delivery of the last volume, which proved to be about one-half larger than any of the others. Delivery was refused on the ground that the volume was not According to 8ample,and broke the uniformity of the set, the disputing parties ultimately agreeing to submit their differences to the "Shirra. MrCoiririeThomson was thenacting Sheriff-Substitute for Forfarshire, and the case came up in due course for liearing. The plaintiff stated his case, and Mr Thomson then advised the defendant to take delivery, adding, "Now, Mr -——, don't be; foolish if the oook is larger they don't propose to charge you anything extra and you ought to consider you are having a bar- gain." "Well," pleaded the defendant, "I'm a tailor, and if your lordship were to order a coat from me, and I quoted a price, and afterwards delivered the coat a half bigger than you wanted it you would, I have no doubt, refuse delivarv. And I might then say, Don't ba foolish, sheriff, the coat, it's true, is much larger than you want, but the cloth is the same. and I won't make any extra. charge; you ought to consider you are having a bargain.' This rather tickled the court, which expressed its appreciation of the point somewhat noisily. Verdict for the plaintiff with costs.
RELATIVE STRENGTH OF WELSH…
RELATIVE STRENGTH OF WELSH CHURCHES. Mr Owen Owen, of Oswestry, lias, says a con. temporary, once again taken up the question of the relative numerical strength of Churchmen and Nonconformists in Walss. Mr Owen denls with thu subject in detail, but his main conch'i- sions may be briefly stated. He finds that in the seven eastern counties of Wales the principal four Nonconformist bodies are more than three times as strong as the Established Church in the eastern diuceses of Llandaff and St. Asaph, aud that in tho six western counties of Wales the same sects Momore than four times as strong as the Church & J » ^ni A?06868 ?f Ba»K°r and St. Asaph. The Protestant Nonconformists of Wales can, he asserts, fairly claim seven communicants for "vea two claimed fcv the Established Churob.
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