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illustard and Cress. ——*—— The debt of the Rhondda Urban District is £ 512,000. The abolition of Mabon's Day is the subject of a melancholy lay in the "Tarian." Laments the writer:- Ccllais y gymanfa ganu, Collais lawer gwyl bregethu; Collais gyrddau'r glowyr dewrion Pa-a y collais Ddydd Gwyl Mabon. Ni chaf fyned gyda cliwmni I'r Eisteddfod fyth i ganu, N.a myn'd gyda'r un Excursion Wedi colli Dydd Gwyl Mabon. Ni chaf fyn'd i wel'd hen ffryndiau, Ni chant hwy fy ngweled inau; Ow! rhaid cefau a chyfeMlion Wedi colli Dydd Gwyl Mabon. A cosrespondent to the "South Wales Daily News" suggests the addition of Colla.s blessar mawr y cwrso, Gweld y milgwns 'thi'n gwitho, Nino.'n ifad nes cal dicon, 0 dydd aplended odd dydd Mabon. The De Rougemont sensation has given rise to two skits, "The Misadventures of Hooley de Httgemount,' "add "The Preposterous Adven- tures of George Washington Munchausen de Spoof," which are appearing in "The Favourite" and "London Figaro" respectively. "The Angel's Story" is the title of a mew prize composition for juvenile choirs from the pen of Mr T. D. Edwards, Haydn Villa, Pontypridd, which will be published next week. This pretty chorus was the best composition out of 14 at Dowlais Eisteddfod, in December, 1894. You may depend, says a man from Dinas, that the hen of the future is the incubator breed. I read a lot about It lately. Some ladies at Trealaw had been admiring the tea, and asked the hostess what kind it was, when the latter turned pale and admitted that she omitted to put any tea in the teapot; but, said tfle ladies, "you must have done so; see the beautiful oolour, and really there's plenty of body in it." It afterwards turned out it was enly the water supplied by the Pontypridd Water Works Company. The first of a series of discourse3 on the gospel illustrated by limelight will be given on Sunday evening at 6.15 at the Masonic Hall, Court Bouse Street, Pontypridd, the subject being "The Prodigal Son." This series, to which ad- mission is free, will be continued every Sunday evening during the winter. "Yes," said a small boy, "when I see a woman running like mad after a tram-car, wav- ing her parasol, and shouting frantically, "Hi, Jú. I always think that all that trouble might have been prevented if girls were only taugfit to whistle through their fingers." Dudesen: "The Chinese are a. strange people, Miss Amy."—Amy: "But they have some cus- toms which might profitably be introduced into this oouatry.Dudeson: "Ah For instance?" —Amy: "Why, in China a hostess always tells a caller when it is time to leave." Nothing of Consequence.—Mistreat ( jpst returned from a long visit in the country): Well, Jane, how have you been getting on while 1 have been away? Jane: Pretty fair, mum. The kithen drain's all stopped up, the chimbly has been on fire, burglars broke in one night, and the brokers is in for taxes; but everything, else is aM right. They Needed No Accuser.—Father Andre, a distinguished Fsench priest, while preaching against the too free indulgence in flirtation among the lady members of his congregation, threatened to divulge the name of one present as being the most culpable in this respect; but feigning to pity her dread of exposure by this means, gave out that in charity he would only throw his skull-cup in the direction of the seat occupied by the lady for whom his special re- marks were meant. As soon as the preacher raised his hat as though to throw it, every woman in the church is said to have ducked her head. Settling It.-A soldier who bad been con- demned to receive fifty lashes was enduring his punishment. During the infliction a dispute arose between tha executioner and his assistant, the lafter counting that twenty-five strokes had been admistered, whilst the other said only twenty. While they argued the sufferer lost patience, and called out, "You duffers! Bag in over again!" Presence of Mind.—Guest (to hoslJ: "Wkat an extremely plain lady that is standing by the piano!" Host (stiffly): "That lady is my sis- ter, sir." Guest (coolly): "Yes, I can see the likeness." Nothing Worse.—An old man who had been dreadSully henpecked all his life was visited on his death-bed by a clergyman. The old man appeared very indifferent, and the olergyman tried to arouse him by talking of the King of Terrors. "Hoot, toot, man! I'm no scar't at the King of Terrors! I've been living sax-and- thirty years with the Queen of them, and the King cannot be muckle waur." I ETrst Coster: "Hullo, Bill, what's the matt-P You look down on your luck." Second Coster: "Well, yer see, Dick, it's like this 'ere. Some one give the missis a bad bob vea'day, an' I jus* work'd it ocf on a soffc-IooKn' chap as bought a penn'orth o* apples; but when I come to look careful at the half-dollar I changed for 'hIl, blow me if it ain't a bad 'un?" A colonel was complaining that from inatten- tion of his officers he was obliged to do the whole duty of the regiment himself. "I am," said he, "my own captain, my own lieutenant, my own cornet"- "And trumpeter also," said a witty lady. A recruiting-sergeant, addressing an honest country bumpkin in one of the streets of Man- chester with, "Come, my lad. thou'lt fight for thy Queen, won't thou?" Voight for my Queen;" answered Hodge. "Why, has she faun out wi' onybody?" A little girl sat gazing at the new bonnet, of one of her mother's visitors until the latter smilingly asked, "Do you like it, my dear?" The child innocently replied. "Yes, I do. Mamma and Aunt Milly said it was a perfect fright, but it doesn't frighten me a bit." She Knew the Consequences.—Mr A.: "I shan't be home till IcWe to-night, Martha. There's an important meeting at the club to dis- cuss one of the greatest problems of the day." Mrs A. (resignedly): "Very well, Charles. I'll order in some soda-water, get a black draught, and tell aunt that you won't be well enough for us to dine with her to-morrow!" "You can see with half an eye" H, po R "K TROMA(" My Hatter,") sells the best 3/9 Hat. Th<» chief characteristics of G. V. HACWSR'S Photo- •r pin are Fidf-lit-e and Artistic Fir.i-h. Samples ma.1 t>e sff-n at his St.Klio-l-> U. The Ay^rfe, Pont^r'iilc! ANY Photograph enlarged &nd finished in v1 n,h!tt" (),'c: FOBB& £ >r & SONS, Cambrian Stuuio, IOUCYPNUU. «

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