Pontypool Free Press and Herald of the Hills

TOPICS OF THE WEEK. Br the decease of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale the titles conferred upon him in 1S99 become ex binct, but it is believed that hia brother, by courtesy a Prince. in law but a commoner, will be elevated to the peerage in the course of the ensuing Session. It has been stated that he will take the title last held by his great grandfather, and the fact that the Duke of Edinburgh is also Earl of Kent would be no more a bar to his as- sumption of the dukedomef that county than the holding by the young Duke of Albany of the title of Earl of Clarence was to the graut of the duke- dom of ClarenL-e to Prince Albert Victor. As a little misapprehension regarding the order of the royal succession appears to exist, it may be of in teres: to men tion that the goyaxning principle is that males in the same degree of relationship are preferred to females, though any daughter would come before an. uncle, nephew, or male cousin. The order at present is, the Prince of Wales. Prince George, the Duches of FiTe. Lady Alexandra Duff (her infant "daughter). Princess Victoria. Princess Maud. All of these would have to pass away without issue befrtre the Duke of Edinburgh could come to the throne. If the Queeu had not been blessed with any male chil- dren. the next in the uriier of succession to her Majesty W"U,d have been the Princess HOfal, now tjbe .Empress Frederick of Germany. SOME months ago an advertisement appeared m one of the London journals offering the services of a lady of tide to introduce youag lauies of money in to good society. The other side of this strange phase of social life i3 reflected iu the following advertisement which appeare 1 in the Washington Evening Post :—A Western man of menus would like to plaee his daughter as a friend in the house of some wcSll-established Washington society woman, whom he will handsomely re- munerate for the favour. Address, stating in detail advantages offerei. Westers, this office." To this advertiaemeut. which only appeared one day. 110 answers were received the social ad- vantages offered covered the entire range of life at the capital, and the price asked by these iiu- pecullioua,.1m3te8!eS ranged from £ 30 to il50 a mouth. THE great Are at Leeds will perhaps teach rail- way companies a lesson in common sense, ef which they seem to stand sadly in need. The expense to which the companies concerned will be put is esti- mated at £ 100,0ot> at least. and there is, too, to be lamented the terrible end of a fireman who met his death in the most shocking way. It would be interesting to know how many more railway stations there are in the country resting upon arches which are used for the storage of such in. flammable merchandise us pitch, tar. and resin. Vaults at railway stations are often used as cheap find convenient store-rooms for spirits. Alcohol is sufficiently inflammable, but it is not so bad as |pitch and tar. And is there, we wonder, any sort of inspection of such vaults—even by the railway companies ? Or are the tenants allowed to accumulate whatever they like there ? And if so, what is to prevent anybody from keeping a magazine of bombs aDd infernal machines ia so safe and sequestered a spot The re> erse sustained by vigorous Mr. H. H. Johnston in 2>yassaiand may not be a serious blow to British power in those regions. But valuable lives have been sacrificed, and our prestige has been imperilled—for h;.? To put down by force the system of slave-trading and slave hunt- ling without which, lamentable as the confession nle" may sound the industrial progress of Africa would be brought to a standstill. ,We cannot | fight the shtve-srade out of the Aftictfn interior. We block it 0*1 the coast, with more or less success. Eu t meantime our policy is hampered by the rather mere than passive hostility of Powers which resent the necessary ilight of Search. There isoniy one infallible way to destroy tiie odious it.s'.itution. and that is to starve it out. I!! we have constructed road* an4 rail- ways, and.rendered tCUI.&lH,rt by beast f burden corn.-);- i cheapor i human porterage, we shall de.dniiely get rid of ÚJe systeai. By rai ;ing the rah.prs we only involve ourselves- in expense, anil often in "failure, exasperase. AraV ferocity, aud intensify Negro safferings. 1 ON* of the sights of Chi.~go will be a Smlding" J 27.3ft high, v liif b is either in course of esse ;tioa or just coin pie ;ed. The Fire Underwriter' Association of that city hasEad under couaident- tiw the advisability of limiting tie height of bull iiags. and would fix the- maximaiix from the sf.reet level to the bighast pciu t of the aoof at .1:.cOf\ in the case 01 au ofiea building of non- combustible sonsiruction. at 85ft. for ujLwther 1 bvildings. The le,, el l to WA:ter can bo J tbiiis hmite-J, and if a lie- were 00 break out. j in the upper part of a struct aire twenty "Oriew high the }O'ire DpaTtDaeu. t woul.l have t4 wait i-j: ci. Sonne way down ht:!Æ1t obey ur-uld atie>npt to dep.I w'ith ft f and by tbati litne i; great Jamagt: might be .:ione-. or it might, he too late to stop a.e 'pr('g:¡; of tk fiania* But, if tb great pork metrv>poii&i» determined nave "f.] u" as high as some cathedral spiles, ihsy wilL ei ther take the risk of their desrrmtiom by fire, or devise some new and fairly eifecuve m«an» eiL' extinguishing au outbreak. IT was Charles Dickens's tramp who apprised the novice on the road of a certain easaal waard ] where at Christmas he could count on íb& j joliiest ialow cut; of beef and tater^ as ever passed your br-east bone." Something approachiogtft proud pre-eminence appears to be enjoyed by the Mauehe&ter casual wa.rds, which have, as appears from statements at the Board's latest meeting,, beeu. prated by an experiecoed sojourner within their wa'lls,r.s the best la.y downs "with which he is aainted. Unfortunately, theattraotionsof these "e cablishments do not appear to be conducive to the love of hard work. The other day. when the question was asked who was prepared to help sweep the snow in the stre&ts out of one hundred tramps only seven helii up hands. Tijo master of the workhouse further reports that there are uow fifty able-bodied niou in his casual war i who are quite able to assist in work of this kiud, but somehow their labour does not seem to be avail- able. The 1 roble-n however. was state 1 to have its difficulties." and. for the present at least, the Board, have aeclinedi to put pressure ou the casuals. A STORY of hercism is told among the usually prcsaic announcements of the London Gazette" in exp lanation of the services for which the Queeu has conferred the decoration of the Albert Medal of the Second Clcss ou Ge-.rge Iloar. boatman of the Tynemouth Coastguard Station. On the occasion of the wreck of the schooner Peggy; during a severe gale with a very heavy sea on tue night of the t:kh October, 1 SO 1. after four men had been rescued from the wreck by means of the rocket apparatus, the captain of the Peggy in- formed the chief officer of the Coastguard that there was another man still on board the wreck in a disabled state, he having fallen out of the rigging ou to the deck of the vessel in atteniping to get iuto the breeches buov. George Hoar immediately volunteered to go off to the wreck and bring the man on aim was m tue■> 01T to the t\ieck..1 .istance of 15'.) yar is. through the heavy sea, in the face of a tremendous gale from the southeast. He found on arriving at the vessel that he could not reach the man owing to the hawser having been secured fcurteeu feet above the deck (where the man lay hcJ, less and iu an unconscious state). He then signalled to be hauled ou shore again to coufer with ¡he chief officer shortly afterwards he was again hauled off, and ou reaching the wreck the hawser was eased, so as to allow him (iu the breeches buoy) to reach the man on the deck. As the man was perfectly helpless, George Hoar, with his legs, seized the man round the body, and held him with both hands by his coat collar, and in this manner the two men were safely hauled on shore, the sea at times washing completely over them.

At the Central Criminal Court Arnold Brabb, ,e electrical engineer, charged with burglary, has been acquitted, and dIscharged" without a staiu upon his character."

A YOLTNG DURGLAR. At the Cler ken well Police Court, John Kemp, iixteen, of Middle Bow, St. Luke's, describing 1imsef as a porter, has been oharged with at. tempting to break into a yard in Hatlield Street, St. Luke's—Police-constable 437 G said he saw :he prisoner attempting to force a paulock off the loor of the yard at the back of some buginess tremises. Kemp had a screw-drtver in his hand, ind then witness, who had watched hmi unnoticed, ran xrp to him and took him into custody. Kemp, who was stated to have been previously convicted, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour.

SHOCKIN,G GUN ACCIDENT. A shocking gua accident was the su"le5r +,an investigjhtiott by Mr. Chaste, coroner, the other day. at Rlundeston, near Lowestoft. A game- keeper named Darkins, employed on the estate of Sir Saville Crossley at Somerleyton, went to work Sir Saville Crossley at Somerleyton, went to work leaving two guns. one of them loaded, in the corner of the kitchen. The wife had occasion to go to Lowestoft, and directed her son, aged nine years, to look after hia younger sister and a baby boy two years ot agj. Whiltt former w«*s engaged elsewhere, he was startled to hear the re- port of a gun. and on rushing into the house, found his little brothez tying on the flooroovered with blood and with his head nearly blown from the body. A verdict of Accidental Death was re- turned, but the father of the child was severely ceasured. v v

fILS JVIURDBR OF TWO GAMEKEEPERS. At Aldbury (Buckinghamshire) the adjourned inquest on Puddephatt and Crawley, the two gamekeepers whose bodies were found in Decem- ber last on Stock's Estate, brutally murdered has been resumed. Statements by the men in custody for the oHme were read admitting complicity. The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against them. They also censured a witness who lent a gun to the prisoner Eggleton.

I STRANGE DISCOVERY. The Ohm center Police have received information of :he discovery of human remains in the Severn. Some fishermen saw an object floating in the water, and which, on being brought ashore, proved to be the limb of a male. It was quite naked, and had evidently been in the water many months. THTE medical opinion is that it is the limb of a per- son aoout five feet nine, and has become detached through decompt sition. The police have not the slightest cine to his identification. -u_-

A TERRIBLE DISASTER. The religious ceremony of the waters performed at Tiflis the other day was attended by a terrible (iisnster, The procession had left the Armenian Cathedral, aim, followed by a dense throng of people, was passing over a temporary bridge j erccted over au arm of the River Kura. when the structiire suddenly collapsed. A mass of people fell with the bridge into the stream, others s:ruggied to force their way back from the broken bridge on to the land, but were met by the surging » crowd pressing forward. ilany were crushed to death or injured in the press, while many more were drowned in the river. The greatest con sternatiou-prevails, and it is impossible as yet to ascertain the number of victims.

A DESPERATE REVENGE. John Carson, a Baltimo;t lawyer, has oeen found dead in the streets of New York with a ghastly wound in his neck, supposed to have been inflicted with a razor. Rumours were afloat that this was only one of a series of atrocities com- mitted by one man. who has been nicknamed the Slasher. Since December 29 it appears that six men have beeu mysteriously attacked in the Fourth Ward in similar style the injuries being all I inflicted with a razor. The other morning it is allesfted the Slasher was detected in attacking a leveuth vidtim: andfarrested. He has confessed that the other crimes were committed by him. It seems that he has a mania for killing Germans, and avows as a reason that some years ago a German brutally outraged hiiJ mother.

NARROW ESCAPE OF 100 MINERS. A Glasgo,wcorrespcndent says that: A fire broke out the other day in the Iron and Steel Company's pit at Buillieston, near Glasgow. It was at first reported that one hundred men were entombed. The Glasgow Fire Brigade, with three steamers. left for the pit. which is six mles distant. It was said tDat the men imprisoned were in the seam where the fire was burning. Later news says that the hundred men in the pit had all been got out safely, but the man at the top of the shaft was severely scalded. The frame and pulleys B!!H stand intact, but the shed at the top where the cl is screened is completely destroyed.

A SHOOTING OUTRAGE. Mf: fj.-W. Perry, house agent, was driving to Tulla. county Ci:i re .•the other morning, to attend mass, when four .rined men pulled him off the car. One of sdnem dred a revolver, the bullet pas- sing through Mr. Perry's thigh. They then shot the horst- eau aud decamped. Mr. Perry was found lying in the road, ami his injuries appeared so serious rlvit the sacTaaient was administered 1 to him. The small done of the leg is fractured A ftlhi the sinews much lacerated. Two men have beeu It appears that Mr. Perry, as agent for his brother-in-law, Mr. Thomas Brady brown, of New Park, had occasion to proceed tgainst several t*ii:Lu ts ut r!,niiis quarter sessions, and obtained decrees apinst them. These pro- ceedingS are supposed to have been the occasion of me outrage. t 1

THE GREA.T SEA SEIiPENT.' i The Zealand' Herald ia a recent issue re- < 1 hat on the trip to Fiji and back of the Steamer €>v £ i:iu. ]&*fi onclu^itfd, Captain. A. W. Cameron and his officers-saw what may be hell to be a solution of the "great aeaserpent stories which have loetil S3 plentifully related lately. The steamer was going along at about tea knots in mid-ocean when a commotion was observed in the water ahead, and the body of a huge marine animal ot fish, with what appeared to be great flippers. 1Tag to be seen ruing and f allipg. Captain Cameron did not keep away or puss at a distance, but steered direct for the stranger. On ap- proaching elose the commotion was found to be caused by a big whale, over thirty feet long, fighting with a great thresher shark; The latter apparently was having a lot the best of the com- bat. as the ",hale kept on the surface of the water comparatively quies, whfle the shark ever and ar.on threw itself aloit out of e water and brought its formidable tail down with a terrible blow upon the whale. At times fully fifteen feet of the shark's body was clear out of the water, and those on board the steamer noted that it possessed two wide and long fius, which might at a distance have easily been mistaken for the flippers which I were attributed to the "sea serpents" recently spoken of. The Qaralau was so close to the animals, which were too occupied to heed the vessel that either could have been touched with a pole, but as she had her port to make in good time she did not wait tQ see the result of this ocean combatr

ROMANTIC SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN. A romantic suicide was that of a fadr young Parisienne, who was fii^iidly with an English- man, the son of a ncted horse dealer and livery stable-keeper. The girl had been in America for about 18 months with her lover. They returned to Paris, and the iaty went to live with her mother, in the Avenue Trudaine. In the mean- time the young man was ordered by his father to break off his liaison, and when he announced his intention of obeying the paternal injunction to the girl, she seems to have been beside her- self with grief. She was seeu wandering de- jectedly about the Ghamps-Elysees. At length she hailed a cab near the Palais de 1 Inuustne, and directed the driver to take her to the resi- dence of her lover. There she asked for the young man, but saw his father instead, and, according to scfne, tiie giri used the words, Vous etes un miserable in going away. She next drove home to the Avenue 'Xrudaine, procured a revolver, re- entered the cab, and wetit to a cafe in the Boule- vard Haussman. where she wrote a letter to the livery-stable keeper asking pardon for the scene which she had had with him, and begging him to give his son permission to accompany her to her. fast home. This was at nine o'clock ia the even- ing, and the epistle bsing finished, the girl took it with her aud drove to the Rue Jean-Goujon, where her friend's father lives. She gave the letter to her coachman, telling him to take it upstairs to the person for whom it was intended. While the cabmau was performing this service for his fare, the young lady took out her revolver, aud fired a bullet through her right temple. She was dead when the driver came back.

The London Hospital Fund has received an anonymous donation of £ 500. The Belfast and Northern Counties Railway Company have decided to abolish the system of carriage-lighting by oil, and are adopting-gas in its place on all their trains. A terrible railway accident has occurred on the Northern Pacific Railway, near Brainard, Minnesota, a sleeping car being toppled over an embankment, where it caught fire. Two women were burned to death. General Boulanger's souvenirs have been dis- posed of. M. Rochefort, who had desired to possess the General's inkstand, was anticipated by M. Dutemps, and contented himself with a pair of pince-nez. The revolver with which General Boulanger killed himself is the property of Mdlle. Griffith. • The members of the Elder Expedition for the exploration of the interior of Western Australia have arrived at Minchison all well. The Geographical Society has decided to accept the resignation of Mr. Lindsay, the leader, but he has been requested to proceed to Geraldton to consult as to the future. Since the jewel robbery at Major Meeking's residence, Richmes-park, Longley, the Slough police have been harassed with burglaries of a small character. The lodge of Major Needham's, at Berry Hill, Taplow, has been broken into, and various plated articles and some jewelry were taken. Robert Monk, V4 inmate of Chelmsford Work- house, who was attacked by another inmate named Christopher Bradley, has died. Bradley would have been charged with wilful murder had he lived, but he has been a sufferer from chron io bronchitis, and the other afternoon he also died i4 the gaol where he bad been removed.

..o{ ITEMS OF INTEREST. Diphtheria has oigpttpelled the closing of the public schools at Aycliflfe. It is deniediin a Constantinople telegram that a fresh insurrection has broken out out in Arabia, I A Cape Town telegram states that the Swallow has been ordered to £ he Zambesi to assist Consul Johnston. A Bill rendering m«a who live on the earnings of unfortunates amenable to the law will shortly be introduced into the German Reichstag. At the Abdin Palace in Cairo the new Khedive has held his first public reception, delivering a speech which made an excellent impression. Society women in Washington are prepared to take charge of young ladies at rates varying from £ 30 to £150 per month. Mdme. Minnie Hank, the prima donna, accom- panied by her husband, has arrived at Gibraltar from New York on the steamer Fulda. Mr. D. Rischon Morgan, coroner for Western Carmarthenshire, has died at Carmarthen, from congestion of the liver followed by- a severe cold. The Lond on Wesleyan ministers, at their monthly meeting discussed the iidvisabilifey of ministerial participation iu public elections. The new Portuguese Premier has made a state- ment of the new Ministry's policy in the Cortes, and added that the Government would address an appeal to the nation's creditors. The captain of the barque Arlington, which has arrived at New York/reports having rescued the starving and frozen crew of the British barque Countess of Dufferia. starving and frozen crew of the British barque Countess of Dufferia. The King of Wurtemberg has ordered that the double-breasted coat of the Wurtemberg Army Corps shall give place to the single-breasted coat as worn by the Prussian soldiers. Prince Kraft zu Hohenlohe, the celebrated reformer of the Prussian Artillery, who was for many years aide-de-camp to the late Emperor William, has died 1" I)r6W6n. ,A considerable Iancislip has taken place at the end of the Hiemeris Tbliace, in Heligoland. About two thousand cubic metres of rock fell, and dashed in the wall of a house. The ceremony of opening the Bermondsey Free Library was performed by Sir John Lubbock. l\LJ:> the proceedings taking place in the principal room of the institution. A Vienna correspondent announces the death from iafluenza, of the Archduke Car Salvator, at the age of fifty-two. This is the thrird Ausfciriauf Archuuke who has died from the same malady within a few weeks. A Rome correspondent states that Cardinal RampoIIa has asked to be relieved of the office of Pontifical Secretary of State and appointed Secre- tary of the Propaganda, on the ground of ill health. Mr. Edison has an invention in hand by which he maintains tnat it is possible for tweiity-five men stationed in a fort to destroy an assaulting enemy by means of an electric s?ream of water directed against them. The Toronto Globe, which had connected Lady Macdonald's name with the alleged improper transaction in land in the north territories, has unreservedly withdrawn the charge, and tendered a humble apology to her ladyship. A conference has been held at the. Memorial Hall, Farringdon-street, for tbe purpose-of oppos- ing, the foundation of the Albert University. Several resolutions condemning the scheme were carri&d. An anonymous drmor, a lady, has g iven. el,000, to Dr. Barnardo for bis homes- r another lhdv has promised to build a children's- church, estimated to cost nearly £ 6,000; and a gentleman* has promised the whole amount needed for tbrt: build- ing of new schools at Ilford. Mary Bason, aged seventy-six,, has been fined 20s. and costs, at Stockport. for purchasing: at ai, halfpenny each five girl's ulsrers-, stolen by Hubert Fisher, aged nine, from All Saints-5 School, Heaton Norris. Fisher was birched. Acting on the opinion of Sir Charles Russell! the Salvation Army have taken out summonses against three members of the Eastbourne police force for assault, alleged to have been committed while-dis- persing the Salvation Army meetings 011 the beach They want a pied piper with power nvsr mice in the Borders. Thousands of the vermis infest the- district, and although all the cats for miles round have been hunting them for week the mice in- crease1 fastejr than they kill them. A man. said to be a Londonei; has-been arrested in New York in tiie act, of citttrtg th., I l I of a tiruufceu man with a rasor. this, making the seventh drunken man the prisoner is;charged with havdag similarly attacked in three weeks. At tiie annual meeting of tha African Trade tl)i-- Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, ai& important. i«uter war read from Lord tialiabaty s in answer to a protest against the abandonment of tiie protectoiate in Sierra Leone. Another railway accident has occurred on the South-iiasiera Railway near London-bridge station a carriage leaving the line- and toppling over. The passengers were much shaken, bat it is believed t'hat uo oue was seriously injured. It is stated that since 18S5 —the year of Victor Hugo's death — the public have paid about £ 296.734 for the different editions of his works. The highest prices were realised iky Las Miser- ables," which was issued by two publishers in a cheap form. M. le Docteur Fouquet, who lives at Cairo, and has already made some important gifts to the-Paris Louvre, has again offere.1 to the Sta te a consider- able number of interesting examples of the same kind, being specimens of Arab Art in the Middle Ages. In the Recorder's Court, Dublin, a mam named Feeney has been charged with shoplifting. He stated that he was only thirty-three years of age, and had spent eighteeu years in penal servitude. He was now sentenced to seven years pe nal' servi- tude. ItjSi Mathew Wilson, fireman on the North-Ens^ern! Railway, son of John Wilson, goods foreman, Tweedmouth, whilst working a goods train ^onl Newcastle to Berwick fell off the engine when changing lamps. When picked up his neck was broken. The other night a woman was seen to mount the parapet of Black friars Bridge. Some passers- by tried ineffectually to prevent her jumping' over, and a constable immediately had a boat pushed off, but nothing could be seen of the unfortunate person. Tho lucrative appointment of professor of la and dean of the faculty of law in Melbourne Ull. versity will shortly be vacant, as Professor Jenkins it is said because he finds the council too ready to interfere, is about to return to King's College, Cambridge. The body of Elizabeth Cooper (30), cigarrnaker who had been miseing from her lodgings since the 29th December, was found in the canal near the Huddersfield Gasworks. Mrs. Cooper's husband went away to America some time ago. There are three children left. According to a telegram from New York, the British steamer Castlelield, from the West IndIes, has arrived there, aud the captain reports that on January 4 the cook, a man named Marsh, killed Newson, the steward of the vessel. The murderer was at once put, ju irons aud landed at St Lucia. Mr. Graaf, the Mayor of Capetown, who is on a visit to Germany for the purpose of studying its municipal institutions, is receiving every attention from the Berlin authorities. Mr. Graaf has also examined in detail the drainage of Berlin, and the system employed for the disposal of the sewage. Herr Eugen Wolf, the African traveller, who, thouerh a German, was lately expelled from the German colonies owing to some free-spoken letters which he contributed to the Berliner Tiujuhlatt, has been received at Friedrichsruh by Prince Bis- marck. Robert Hurst, a miner, aged fifty-five, of Blacker Hill, has met with a terrible death in Silk, stone seam, at Barrow collieries, near Barnsley. Whilst deceased was working, a stone about four feet long fell upon him, breaking both his legs and back. The deceased < •-red immediately, utter- ing the words. T flhe Worcester [official Receiver has been ap* pointed interim receiver of the estate of Mr. Hastings, M.P., now under remand at Bow-st., on a charge of misappropriating trust money. Mrs. Mary Louisa Bowdage, a young married lady, of Llandndno. has been committed for trial on a. charge of forging three cheques and issuing them to Chaster tradespeople, L

Great surprise has been expressed by profes- sional gentlemen in the medical world through- but the kingdom at the wonderful cures effected by WEE E. COOPER & Co.'s RHEUO in cases of long-standing rheumatism, where all hopes of a cure had long before been abandoned. The great success attending the sales of Rheuo—which are the largest of any patent medicines foT irheu- matism only, in these j)artg-may be accounted for by the fact that it is not offered to cure every complaint under the sun, but rheumatism oqly in old and young. Taken internally at regular intervals it quickly subdues the pains, and gradu- ally but surely restores the sufferer to a healthy state. DAVIS BROS.. Grocers, Pontypool O_AUD Blaenavon, are the local agents, and one 2s, ad iiotti will cure most cases also bottles, Is lid and 4s 6d. Sent post free by the above agents, or from 599, Commercial-road, Loudon, E., on receipt of the above amounts.

iii PHILIP MOKQ|I.I^ # (Late fOOLE ffj j STOCK SALESMAN AND GKNERaK of< AUCTIONEER, PUBLIC-HOUSE, FURNITURE, STOCK, and other Valuations undertaken." LIFE, FIRE, AccioENTAL LND OTHER INSURANCE AGENT. MONET LENT on MORTGAGE. Advancec III made on Sales. Payment on Eve of Sate wholly made if required. P. M. bold Sales of Fat and Store Stock in Abergavenny Market every Tuesday, and at U the First aud TI,ird Mondays in each MLDi b also other Markets, when instructed. Office* • — CT.UB CHAMBERS, PONTYP t S'l .MARY'S i,HA ttUHRS. MONK .r'r ( THE LARGEST PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE WORLD. A. & G. TAYLOR (PHOTOGRAPHERS TO THE QUEEN), WESLEY CHAMBERS, (Nearly opposite the Town Hall,) 157, Commercial St., NEWPORT. WE beg to announce to our numerous T V patrons and the public generally, that we have recently built, at Wesley Chambers, one of the FINEST STUDIOS IN WALES, fitted up with every modern appliance for the production of High-Class Photographs. Please Note.: We have now n. connection whatever with the Arcade Studio. L «■"> THE BEST REMEDY ON EA BIB T HOM.AS'S RHEUMATIC MIXTURE rjTHOMAS'S RHEUMATIC MIXTURE -L rpBOMAS'S' RHEUMATIC MIXTURE rjlHOMAS'S RHEUMATIC MIXTURE You r-ced not suffer any more from GOUT, RHEUMATISM, LUMBAGO, SCIATICA, NEURALGIA, or GRAVEL, because you can be s. quiakly Cured by taking THOMAS'S MIXTURE. THOMAS'S MIXTURE. THOMAS'S MIXTURE. T i:H)",MAS;S MIXTURE, This-Wonderf ul Medicine immediately it is taken entessg into- the blood, and going directly to, the root ef tha disease, gives speedy relief, h it used I hy L^eiorHy and Recommended and Praised by all I who have tcied it.. THOMAS'S MIXTURE. THOMAS'S MIXTURE. THOMAS'S MIXTURE. THOMAS'S MIXTURE. The, ehief eausft of Rheumatism is the presence of Uric Acid in tIe blood. Thomas's Mixture thoroughly neutralises this Arid and drives-it out oi system. It is pleasant to take and dsitaii; to cure. Thousands of Testimonial* could be published we just give a few 35-1 stun pie*— RHEUMATISM CURED. ST*,—.1 jiavr ;u5er-'D for a leas: tim^frem a short tirae a^o I tried yeur sad Rheumatic Mixture, and have been w&l ever einee. The wide world ov.ht- to know of your most efficacious Mixture. DAVID. EVANS, Bute-roadr CardifL CURE, OF GOUT. SiR '-Aft-Fr being a martyr to the Chalk Goat for years, at'last I tried your Mixture. Now, I will tell you its effect upon, me:—On a Saturday I was in bed, and could not move either hand" or "foot." I took your Mixture as-directteL and on the follow- ing Tuesday I could Lo about and do my duty as the Town and Magistrates Clerk of Cardigan. About two months after I was again taken in the hands-n andwrists with the same complaint. I resorted to your most valuable Mixture, andina'wo days was perfectly cured. I recommend your Mix- ture as the greatest boon to all sufferers from Gout or Rheumatism.—W. MITCHELL, Town Clerk, Cardigan. CURE OF NEURALGIA AND PAINS IN THE FACE AND HEAD. A lady, after taking less than one small bottle, was quite cured of a most violent attack. ITHOMAS'S RHEUMATIC MIXTURE is sold at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. *id., by all Chemists and Siores or a Bottle will be sent, securely packed and post free for 15, 3ö, or 00 stamps, addressed to A. Smith, Chemist, 5. High-street, Newport. Insist on having E. M. THOMAS'S MIXTURE. Don't take anything else, or you will be disappointed. It is THE BEST REMEDY ON EARTH. ^TIFF'S STARCH. gTIFF'S STARCH STIFF'S STARCH ^TIFF'S STARCH STIFF'S STARCH fli gTIFF*S STARCH jSjTIFF'S STARCH STIFF'S STARCH ^TIFF'S STARCH STIFF'S STARCH S IFFS STARCH ,nd Co. NOTICE. STIFF'S STAJtCH is soIel in 41b., lib., ilb and ilh. faaey Boxes, also in Paper Packets containing about olbs. each. Everv Box or Packet bears the Trade Mark. "Queen Bess." This Trade Mark has been reg- istered, and is a guarantee that the contents of the Box, or Packet are genuine. A good deal of Starch is sold loose-that is, merely wrapped in paper or enclosed in paper bags. Starch supplied in this way may be a cheap and very inferior article, possibly of for- eign manufacture, and of little use for laundry purposes. Con- sumers, therefore, when pur- chasing Still's Starch, should get it in a Box or Packet, and note the Trade Mark printed in Red Ink on outside. STIFF & CO., 23, REDCLIFF STltEET. BRISTOL.

EXTR A OR DIN ARY HALLUCINATION. Alalebranehe, a celebrated philosopher of the Seventeenth century, was for a long time the vic- tim of a singular notion. He fancied that he had an etiot-iii)us leg of mutton attached to the end of his nose. A friend would shake hands with him and en- quire How is M. Malebranclie to-day ?" "Pretty well, on the whole; but this horrid of unit,ton is getting quite unbearable by its all(I its IVilat This leg of mutton ? Yes. Can't you see it hanging there in front?" If the friend bursb into a laugh, or ventured to deny the existence of the strange phenome- non, Malebranclie would get angry. At length a colleague of his, a man gifted with the sense of Lhe humorous, determined bo cure him by some means or other. Calling upon him one day, he allocked to perceive the cause of his trouble, and snquire(j about it. Tho imaginary patient, overcome with gratitude, ran to embrace hi* first believer, >yho, Btepping backward, ubteicd a cry. "ftt! Have I hurt you, my friend?" "Certainly. You have run your leg of mutton into my I really cannob understand why you have nob tried bo get rid of that awkward appendage long since. If you will allow me with a razor—a"—an operation performed without the jjglitest danger My fr'end—my friend, you will have saved my life Oh—ah—oh!" In the twinkling of an eye the friend has slightly grazed the tip of his nose, and producing from under hia cloak a splendid leg of mutton, lie flourished it. triumphantly in the air. "Ah." exclaimed Malebranclie, "I live-I breathe! My 1100b, is free, my head ia free Bnt-bub it was a .raw one, and this One ii, cooked ♦♦ Why, of con rap • you have been sitting for an hour close to bh« fire From this time Malebranclie ceased to be haunted by Jifo leg of mutton.

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ANOTHER SURVIVOR OF WATERLOO. The papers are stating pretty generally (Mr. E. J. Taylor writes to Nates atid Queriet) that Samuel Gibson, who died on the 15th of December, 1891. at Cateriiain Asylura, a-ed 101, is the last of the Waterloo veterans. A friend of mine informs me there is still another-namely, Lieutenant J,.Maui'ice Slica. He was not an officer during the battle, but he won his commission by the bravery he then displayed. Lieutenant Shea has long been a resident of Lower Canada, ausd although in his ninety sixth year he was strong enough on the 20th of June last to attend the military eele- bration of the Waterloo auiversary in the drill- 1hill at Sherbrooke, the capital of the eastern tor. 11 ship of Quebec.