The Tenby Observer Weekly List of Visitors and Directory

THE CHARGE AGAINST G. E, EVERETT. The Newport Magistrates had before them on several occasions some weeks since the case against G. E. Everett^ auctioneer, of Newport and Cardiff, of withholding 960 or jE70 belonging to the Roger- stone and Henllis School Board, to which he acted for sometime as clerk. In default of paying the money, a month's committal was eventually made out against him. Everett succeeded, until a few days since, in evading being taken into custody. Last week he was arrested in London, and a com- munication being made with the county police, an officer was despatched for him, with the result that he is now undergoing the term of imprisonment in Usk gaol.

THE COST OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. A parliamentary return issued on Saturday shows the average income and expenditure per scholar in voluntary and board schools respectively, and the cost of site and buildings per school-place, and other statistics. The average income per scholar in school pence in voluntary schools ranges from 9s 5id in Roman Catholic schools to 15s llfd in Wesleyan schools the average income in voluntary contribu- tions ranging from 2s 7d in Wesleyan schools to 9s 0|d in London schools. The average expenditure per scholar in attendance ranges from jEl 2s 2id in Roman Catholic to 91 10s 7.td in London voluntary schools. The grant earned per scholar in average attendance in voluntary schools ranges from 16s 3;J;d in Church of England schools to 17s trid in Wes- leyan schools. In Board schools the average income per scholar in attendance averaged in Birmingham 6s Sid, while in Bradford it reached 15s 7|d. The 4 rates for the support of the schools ranged from 3s 8id in Hull to fl 9s 9d in London. The expen- I diture per averaged scholar ranged from 91 3s Sid 4 in Hull to E2 3s 2d in London. The average grant earned ranged from 16s 6d in Hull to 18s lljd in Manchester. The cost of site and buildings per school-place in board schools ranged from jSll in Hull to jEl7 2s 10d in London. The cost per scholar in average attendance in enforcing atten- dance at all schools ranges from Sid in Hull to 2s 9d 4 in Leeds. Another return shows that in the year ended the 31st of August, 1884, the merit grant was awarded in 9,916 voluntary schools in England and Wales for infant schools and classes, and 15,137 schools and classes for older scholars. The grant was awarded also to 3,120 board schools for infants, and to 5,078 board schools for older children.

THE PRESIDENCY OF THE CONGREGA- TIONAL UNION. At a special meeting of the committee of the Con- gregational Union of England and Wales, held on Friday at the Memorial Hall, London, and largely attended, the Rev. John Thomas, D.D., of Liver- pool, was unanimously appointed to, fill the chair of the union, vacant by the regretted death of Dr. Rees, and to preside at the forthcoming assembly. Dr. Thomas entered the Congregational ministry in 1842. He was an intimate friend of Dr. Rees, with whom he edited "The History of the Independent Churches in Wales." He has rendered great ser- vice to the English, Churches in North Wales. Seven years ago he filled the chair of the Congrega- tional Union of Wales, when it met at Llandilo, and his acceptance of the chair of the English Union will be received acceptably by his fellow- countrymen. The Rev. Dr. Bevan, of Highbury, was deputed to represent the Congregational Union at the funeral of Dr. Rees on Tuesday last, and to deliver an address.

THROAT IRRITATION AND COUGH.—Soreness and dryness, tickling and irritation, inducing cough and affecting the voice. For these symptoms use Epps's Glycerine Jujubes. In contact with the glands at the moment they are excited by the act of sucking, the Glycerine in these agreeable confections becomes actively healing. Sold only in boxes, 7sd., tins, Is. ljd., labelled "JAMES EPPS & Co., Homoeopathic Chemists, London." Dr. George Moore, in his work on Nose and Throat Diseases," says: "The Glycerine Jujubes prepared by James Epps and Co., are of undoubted service as a curative or palliative agent." While Dr. Gordon Holmes, Senior Physician to the Municipal Throat and Ear Infirmary, writes "After an extended trial, I have found your Glycerine Jujubes of considerable benefit (with or without medical treatment) in almost all forms of throat disease." To POLICEMEN and those obliged to be out in the damp night ajr, CADBURY'S COCOA affords an exhilarating beverage, warming-comforting and sus- taining. CHEAP NOURISHMENT.- Eourteen large Breakfast Cups of strong, reliable .Cocea can be made from a Sixpenny Packet of Cadbury's Cocoa Essence. Ask for Cadbury's, and do not be imposed upon.

SIXPENNY TELEGRAMS. The success or failure of this great reform in the telegraphic service will depend, we believe, on the way in which the authorities ultimately deal with the names and addresses of sender and receiver. As now proposed these are to be charged for as parts of the message, and to be included in the twelve words that are to be given for sixpence. If this plan is carried out, one of two things must generally happen. Either the names and addresses will be so cut down as to cause the post office end- less trouble in delivery and to mislead the receivers by partial and confusing descriptions of their senders, or there will be very few words left for the message itself. Men of business can indeed say a good deal in four or five words, but the majority of mankind are not given to epigrams and cannot state so shortly what they mean. Then again this charg- ing for addresses is an entirely new departure from the present practice as to inland telegrams, and this alone is a strong argument against it. What is wanted, as we conceive, is a compromise between the contending methods, and a plan which keeps as far as possible to that now in use should on that account be preferred. We would therefore suggest than ten words should in every case be allowed for the addresses free, any words used beyond that to be charged for as part of the message. There are few cases in which the names and addresses of both sender and receiver could not well be comprised within ten words, and these being allowed free, there would be no temptation to abbreviate unduly. We would then allow for the message 5 words for 6d. 15 words for lOd. 10" Sd. 20" Is. charging 2d. per line of five words after. The ad- vantages of this plan are obvious. It keeps to the present scale of twenty words for a shilling and it fixes the rates by easy gradations. It would really be a reduction in telegrams, which the present pro- posal of the authorities is not, for twelve words at sixpence, to include both addresses, would oftenloe little better than a delusion, leaving only two words upon an average for the message. People would therefore have to use more, and so spend eight- pence or tenpence, thus leaving the sixpenny tele- gram, of which we have heard so much, as a mere name. It may be said that by adopting such a scale as that above suggested the department would lose, and according to their calculations it is pos- sible that there might be some loss at the begin- ning. But we think this argument has already been made too much of, and too generally admitted. The department exists only for the service of the public, and the wants of the public must be first considered. If we were to listen to officials we should never move in anything. Their natural in- stinct is to stand still, and they are always able to prove anything by figures. A real sixpenny tele- gram will be a great boon to thousands, but as pro- posed by the post office it would not be a reality, and that is why we offer these suggestions.

THE REVISED EDITION OF THE BIBLE. The, revised edition of the Bible will be out at the time originally arranged some time next month. Extraordinary preparations have been made both at Oxford and at Cambridge to meet the demand. The secret as to the points in which the Revised Bible differs from the Authorised Version has been carfully guarded, and we must still await the new issue before we know what they are. But it has transpired that in the parallel edition an Unusual amount of labour has been bestowed upon the point of making the parallelism complete even to the minutest particular. Thus in every page of the new book, each of the two columns will begin with the same word or syllable, and also end with the same word, syllable, or mark of punctuation sup- posing, of course, that the revisers have not changed the particular word or point in question. If they have changed it the alteration would be imme- diately shown. When it is remembered that a Bible often covers one thousand pages; that in a parallel book there are practically two Bibles side by side, and that the difficulty of setting out the poetic books in separate lines has to be grappled with, the magnitude of the task will be fully understood.

Two FRIENDS.—We have always had a sincere affection for that keen-witted and somewhat scep- tical scientist, who believes less than he hears and not all that he sees, and who has the trick of discrediting the signs of emotion with more critical frankness than falls to the lot of most. Exclusive and concentrated for his own part, he does not take well with catholicity; and he looks on general amiability, so he says as a "thundering" fault. We know that to be with him is to be sacrificed before we leave him. Yet we are glad to meet him, all the same thinking too that a little honest flay- ing-without witnesses-is by no means unwhole- some for one's soul. Then there is that other friend who stands at the opposite end of the scale -a prophesyer of smooth sayings-the weaver of silken tissues only-the sweetest, softest, blandest, and most amiable creature under heaven. To be in his society is like seeing oneself in a mirror that beautifies every feature and glories every circum- stance of one's condition. He finds no fault, but, on the contrary, paints only our virtues in the brightest colors, so that we may be excused if- human nature being but a frail kind of thing at the best-we find him one of the most charming com- panions in the world until the inevitable question forces itself on our mind "How much of all this is real and how much is pretty fable and polite flattery ?" Then we prefer the rougher tools of our scientific friend and think that between the two— the disproportioned blame of the one and the in- sincere praise of the other-the former is the more commenable. Ten articled seamen, forming the crew of the Greenock barque Rainbow, were charged before the Queenstown magistrates on Saturday with mutiny on the high seas. When the vessel was fifteen days out from Cardiff, on her voyage to Reunion, the crew refused to proceed in defiance of the captain's authority, alleging that the barque was unsea- worthy. They then seized the vessel by force, and put back to Queenstown. After a Board, of Trade survey had been held the Rainbow was pronounced perfectly seaworthy, and the mutinous men were in consequence sentenced to three months' imprison- ment with hard labour. A detective, acting upon a descriptive telegram received from the Superintendent of Police at Aber- deen on Monday, arrested on board the outward bound Cunard steamer Servia, at Queenstown, a saloon passenger named Charles Watson, alias Wm. Read, who is charged with embezzling large sums of money.

SOME CURIOUS FACTS:-Gold-beaters, by ham- mering, can reduce gold leaves so thin that 282,000 must be laid upon each other to produce the thick- ness of an inch, yet each leaf is so perfect and free from holes that one of them laid upon any surface, as in gilding, gives the appearance of solid gold. They are so thin that if formed into a book, 15,000 would only occupy the space of a single leaf of common paper, and an octavo volume an inch thick would have as many pages as the books of a well- stocked library of 1,500 volumes with 400 pages in each. Still thinner than this is the coating of gold upon the silver wire of what is called gold lace, and we are not sure that such coating is not of only one atom thick. Platinum and silver can be drawn into wire much finer than human hair. A grain of blue vitriol or carmine will tinge a gallon of water so that in every drop the colour may be perceived. A grain of musk will scent a room for twenty years, and will at the end of that period have lost little of its weight. The carrion crow smells its food many miles off. A burning taper, uncovered for a single instant, during which it does not lose one-thous3!|dth of a grain, would fill with light a sphere four miles in diameter, so as to be visible in every part of it. The thread of the silk-worm is so small that many of them are twisted together to form our finest sewing silk but that of the spider is smaller still, for two drachms of it by weight would reach 400 miles. In the milt of a codfish, or in water in which vegetables have been infused, the microscope discovers animalcules of which many thousands together do not equal in bulk a grain of sand and yet nature, with a singular prodigality, has supplied many of these with organs as complex as those of the whale or the elephant, and their bodies consist of the same substance, or ultimate atoms, as that of man himself. In a sipgle pound of such matter there are more living creatures than human beings on the face of this globe. What a scene has the microscope opened to the admiration of the philo- sophic inquirer Water, mercury, sulphur, or in general any substance, when sufficiently heated, rises as invisible vapqur or gas that is, reduced to the aeriform state. Great heat, therefore, would cause the whole of the material universe to dis- appear, and the most solid bodies to become in- visible and as impalpable as the air we breathe. Few have contemplated an annihilation of the world more complete than this. FRENCH PENNIES.—The ingenious tradesmen who affix their names by way of advertisement on French copper coins passing current in England are not so securely on the windy side of the law as they appear to suppose. It is true that they cannot be convicted of defacing current coin, because that offence applies only to the Queen's coin, but by sec- tion 15 of 24 and 25 Vict. c. 99, Whosoever shall tender, utter, or put off any false or counterfeit coin resembling or intended to pass for any of the Queen's current copper coin, knowing the same to be false or counterfeit, or shall have three or more such pieces in his possession with the same know- ledge and with intent to utter them, shall be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding. one year with or without hard labour." Unless and until French pennies are made-current coin of the realm by Royal proclamation they are "false coin in England. It is true that the advertisers in ques- tion are no more guilty in point of law than the cabman or .omnibus conductor who gives French pennies in change, or their recipient who passes them on to others, but by stamping their names upon them they indelibly record the fact that they have issued false coin, and so may be the more easily convicted. If a conviction were obtained and a nominal punishment imposed a check might be put on the importation of French copper coins into England.—Law Journal. Holloway's Pills and Ointment.—Influenza, Coughs, and Colds.-In diseases of the throat and <est, so prevalent in our changeable climate, nothing so spec.' y relieves, or so certninly cures, as these inestimable remedies These disortlcis ..1\; iU;" Often neglected at their commence). nt, or are injudiciously treated, resulting in either ca«e in disastrous consequence^. Whatever the condition of the patient, llolloway's remedies will restore, if recovery be possible they will retard the alarming symptoms till the blood is purified and nature consummates. the cure, gradually restoring strength and yital nervous power. By persevering in the use of Holloway's preparations, tone is conferred on the stomach and frame generally. Thousands of persons have testified that by the use of these remedies alone they have been restored to health after every other means had failed. Thomas Boulton, working jeweller, was, at West Bromwich on Saturday, committed for trial on a charge of having murdered his niece, Elizabeth Bunting, 15 years of age, at Handsworth, near Bir- mingham, on the night of April 20. The prisoner, who presented an unconcerned appearance, reserved his defence, and applied for copies of the deposi- tions taken at the inquest and before the magis- trates to assist him on his trial.

LETTER TO THE PREMIER BY THE WELSH MEMBERS. The following is a copy of the letter addressed to the Prime Minister on the long looked-for Inter- mediate Education Bill.- House of Commons, 21st April, 1885. Dear Mr Gladstone,-We deem it our duty, as representatives of the constituencies of Wales, to bring to your notice the deep anxiety which is felt in regard to immediate legislation with a view to establish a complete system of intermediate educa- tion in the Principality. We are fully sensible of, and grateful for, the boon which her Majesty's Government has conferred on Wales by the grants which they have recommended in aid of our colleges, but we submit that the great work which has thus been done will be absolutely incomplete unless an act establishing an organised system of inter- mediate education be passed, and we beg to assure you that if such an act should not be passed this session, after having been promised for the last three years, the deepest disappointment will be felt throughout the Principality.—We are, dear Mr Gladstone, yo-,irs very faithfully, H. Hussey Vivian Henry Richard C. R. M. Talbot; H. G. Alien T. Love Jones Parry Chas. H. James; W. R. H. Powell; John Roberts; Richard Davies W. Rathbone Richd. Grosvenor; G. Osborne Morgan Kensington David Davies Morgan Lloyd John J. Jenkins Samuel Holland R. A. Cuncliffe; L.. L. Dillwyn; Stuart Rendel; Cyril M. Flower; E. J. Reed; E. H. Carbutt; Emlyn R. G. Price F. A. Hanbury Tracy Chas. C. Rogers; W. Davies and W. F. Maitland.

THE LATE MR. VAUGHAN, OF UPTON CASTLE. Mr Henry Halford Vaughan, who died on Sun- day, the 19th ult., at Upton Castle, Pembrokeshire, was a man of the highest academical reputation, though little known to the general public. He lived to be seventy-three, but he never produced the great historical or philosophical work which was expected from him. Yet as Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, he made a deeper and more lasting impression than almost any other occupant of the chair. He was succeeded by Mr Goldwin Smith, one of the most brilliant scholars who have been trained at Oxford. But the judg- ment of critics and the attendance of under- graduates were comparatively favourable to Mr Vaughan. Long after Mr Vaughan's retirement his lectures continued to be spoken of as the traditional high-water mark of the professiorate. Mr Vaughan was included in the same First Class with the present Deans of Christchurch and Rochester, better known as Liddell and Scott," as well as with the distinguished statesman now Lord Sherbrooke. Himself a Christchurch man, he became a Fellow of Oriel at a time when, ac- cording to Mr Mozley, to be admitted into the' Oriel Common Room was like going to heaven. Mr Mark Pattison has recorded in his Memoirs r the curious fact that the only book read by Mr Vaughan for his examination was Bacon's "Ad- vancement of Learning," which in this case proved the advancement of the learner. Mr Vaughan was a member of the Public Schools Commission of 1862, and became remarkable for the minuteness which he persisted in inquiring into the arrange- ments for the boys. In his later days he was sup- posed to be accumulating materials for magnum opus. But it has not appeared, and probably never will. In taking leave of Oxford, and of the post to which Lord John Russell had appointed him, Mr Vaughan referred for the first time to the crowded audiences that had gathered to hear him with an enthusiasm "which," he said, "I should be dull not to discern, and sullen not to acknow- ledge." Being unambitious, and lacking the stimu- lus of poverty, Mr Vaughan has left behind him nothiryg but a fame which was never widespread, aud isr rapidly fading from the memory of the present generation. Yet the testimony of those whose opinion is of most weight pronounce him to have been among the most highly gifted men of his day .—London Daily Neivs.

DEATH OF MR BRINLEY RICHARDS. We deeply regret to announce the death of Mr Brinley Richards, the world-famed Welsh com- poser. Mr Richards was at the Royal Academy of Music, as usual, on Wednesday, was taken ill on Thursday with intense inflammation and con- gestion of the lungs, and sank rapidly from the fever, breathing his last on Friday, at his resi- dence, 25, St. Mary Abbott's-terrace. His death has come upon all as a surprise. For some time the pressure of professional work, coupled with diminished strength, had induced him to hold aloof from the meetings of his countrymen, which he had been wont to attend. His interest, however, in all things pertaining to Wales, and especially in Welsh music, continued unabated. But a few weeks ago he delivered a most interesting and in- structive lecture on the music of the principality before the Society of Fine Arts. The lecture was to have been repeated this session with additional matter, and illustrations before the Cymmrodorion Society, of which body he had on his retirement from the active work of the council at the close of last year been unanimously elected a vice-president, Mr Brinley Richards was born at Carmarthen in 1819. His father, who was the organist of St. Peter's in that town, was buried in the graveyard of that church, and his tombstone, near the chancel window, is a prominent object to those who pass along the shady walk, and one pointed out to visitors with no small amount of pride. Carmar- then is exceedingly fortunate in its association with the names of great men. The martyrdom of Bishop Farrar, the literary fame of Steele, the military genius of Picton, the dauntless courage of Nott, and the ripe scholarship of Thirlwall, throw an in- expressible charm around the quaint little town. Henceforth it will probably rank high among its worthies the man who has made the songs of Wales to be welcomed in almost every part of the civilised world, and who by the magic of his art has en- hanced the fame of his countrymen and his father- land.

THE LINES ON THE HAND. One set of lines for chiromancy runs as follows :— Open the left hand. Half-way between the thumb and forefinger there begins, on the very edge of the palm, a line which runs in a quarter-circle to the middle of the wrist. This is the famous Line of Life. If it be unbroken and clearly marked, it indicates long life and health. From the same point joining it another line runs through the middle of the palm. This is the Line of the Head or Intellect. Almost parallel with it there is a third line beginning on the other side below the little finger, and leading, when well developed, to. the root of the forefinger. This is the Line of the Heart. If clear, deep, and even it indicates a good capacity for honourable love and warm affections. I It is most favourable when this line, as well as that of the hand, have a fork or branch at the end. From the Line of Life at the wrist, there ascends a fourth line, known as that of Fate, Saturn, or Fortune. When it rises as far as the middle finger, it is said to promise excessive good luck or prosperity. From the same point at the wrist goes towards the middle finger a line called by some the Hepatic or Liver Line, and by others the Via Lactea, also the Via Lasciva, There is great con- fusion even in Desbarolles himself as to these lines, whether there are two of them, and which is which. When a large triangle is formed by the lines of life, the head, and the liver, with one even right angle and two acute angles, it indicates breadth and energy of character. If this triangle be divided into two by the Line of Fate, the subject will be susceptible of high intellectual culture; if the lesser triangle contain one or two more, there will be genius and a capacity for know- ledge. If the first joint of the thumb be long and round, and the nail in it be cushioned in the flesh, it denotes obstinacy, but if the next joint is also very long, reason and reflection will convert the obstinacy to a creditable firmness. A line from the ring-finger downwards is a sign of a gift for art in one or all branches. Lines on the wrist are called the bracelet of Venus, and are said by some chiromancers to indicate each thirty years of life. All lines correct and balance one another.-Satur- day Review,

REVIEWS. THE RED DRAGON.—The National Magazine of Wales for May has an interesting paper on "George Herbert," with portrait, of whom Coleridge wrote, That model of a man—a gentleman and a clergy- man-Holy George Herbert." The sketch is from the pen of Mr W. Arthur, of Cambridge. "A Voice from the Crowd," by the author of A Mid- night Mystery," "A Dream Story," &c., will find readers amongst those who admire this acute and peculiar style of fiction. The story is well told, and is full of sensational touches. "Quilibet" sup- plies another Old Tale from West Wales, "Lady Dorothy's Elopement." The writer, in his usual pleasing and happy style, tells how Carew Castle received a mistress from Lamphey Court. No. III. of the series of Shakspeare's Pictures of Welsh- men" is given from the pen of Mr Macrae Simcock. "A Beautiful Hypocrite," by Danzil Vane, is a story that will find many readers. The Literary and Art Notes are more than usually interesting and the "Notes and Queries," with a few pages of "Welsh Rare Bits," make up an excellent number. THE SEASON. The periodicals dedicated to ladies' fashions, numerous and well illustrated as they are, meet with a powerful competitor in this new monthly magazine, which eclipses most of its contemporaries in the fulness and variety of its matter relating to female dress, its variations as determined by the ever-rolling waves of fashion, and the instructions necessary as to the questions of material, measurement, and the mysterious devices of complete and artistic fitting. MRS. LEACH'S FAMILY DRESSMAKER.—By means of this cheap monthly economy in dress is secured, as by its aid anyone capable of using the needle can make up their own materials, the patterns of the various costumes depicted in the illustrations being offered at a low rate. The instructions are given in such a plain and smple manner that every lady ought to be capable of following them. The advice as to materials and fashions will also be found useful.