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WALES DAY BY DAY.

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WALES DAY BY DAY. The Earl of Bosebery is laid up for repairs in Hill's Dry Dock at Cardiff. Carrlinal Vaughan and J notice Denman are among the visitors to Llandrindod. Lord Swansea is in Montreal, on hia way to Sudbury, where a oompany of which he is president owns extensive lmninij mopertv. It is now stated that SIr Wilfrid Lawson has been tied down to dates for a visit to Cardiff. He will be here for a whole week from November 12-60 an enthusiastio temperancer informs us. Father Ignatius says that Lkuithony Abbey is emphatically a Welsh monastery. "We use," he eavs, "the old Welsh Church calendar and1 keep the Welsh saints' days. On St. David's Day, which is an important evenJ, we adorn the abbey with leeks and other national emblems." Enterprise in sale posters is a distinet novelty. A Welsh auotioneer heads the announcement of the sale of a "small, cob- veniant freehold agriooltural holding" with the catch line—"A vote for the oounty." The auotioneer deserves to be pensioned by the party which get. that vote. A correspondent writes:—You are wrong as to Welsh Radical members of Parliament never attending agricultural shovra. Nir. Alfred Thomas was a.t Caerphilly Show and fr. Lloyd Morgan at St. Clears Show. Per- haps, hoivevjr, you regard these gentleman as not Welsh or not Radical. There is an old man at Burry Port (eavs the Swan sea. "Post") who has travelled with the eight a.m. up-train from that place to Swansea every morning, Sundays excepted, for close on 60 years. Oh, "Post!" "Post:" Why, the railway between Swansea and Burry Port has been opened scarcely more than 40 years. Said a witness at Swansea Police-court s- terday, "The defendant said to the two men, 1 I'll summons you, George; and 111 fight you, Jack! The meaning of this extra- ordinary sampling of the two men must be that George was the bigger of the two and there was great dieoretion shown in the course or the row, A Yankee tourist gave a contemptuous smlf as he gazed out of a Cambrian express, and addressing himself to a fellow traveller, who had the appearance of a son of the soil, said, "Kinder tell me 'bout where yer land lies?" With a wrathful look and a bang at the window came the answer, "Ja.wl, mon, cant yer see it in heaps ?" "Mabon" is row on a visit to the Mayor of Kidwelly. His worship owns silicr quarries on Mynyddygareg, and the other day both he and "Mabon" visited the moun- tain and tried their hands at quarrying the stones. One of the workmen standing by gaid to the mayor, "You not stand shape to work at all. iMr. 'Mabon' stands shape much better nor you, master." A famous building stone is that technically known as "Miners" which is quarried rear Wrexham. It is largely used in Liverpool, and has been recently introduced into the London market, being- used on account of its durable and fireproof qualities in building the National Safe Deposit Company's offioes u the Metropolis. During 1893 99 reoeiving orders were made in Cardiff County-court, 68 in Swansea, 2? in Neath, 9 in Aberdare. 8 in Aberystwith, 35 in Bangor, 29 in Carmarthen, 29 in Mer- thyr, 48 in Newport, 10 in Newtown, 22 in Pembroke Dock, 63 in Pontypridd, 18 in Portmadoc and Blaenau Festiniog, 21 in fre- degar, and 2C :n Wrexham. Wales must always be I"d of b-wft jobs?Tee a "Riack and White" m- enthu- siastically, emphasising his assertion with soms charming half-tone pictures), for its grandest scenes are never likely to be over-peopleA Nature has sek the seal of its divinity upon its mountains a.nd valleys, its lakes end rivers, and now that the autumn is flooding the land- scape with a radiance of mingled purple and gold, it is a very dreamland One day at the end of last week thre. young men who were staying at Llandrindod started out on a pilgrimage to Llanthony, and they are now loud in their declarations that the pilgrim fake is one of the greatest bust-ups in the world. They lost their way on the mountains, and it looked to them if they had wandered over three-fourths of the whole world before they got back to Lian- drindod, some time during Sunday- One of the amusing points of "Little Ohris. topher Columbus" (now performing at the Thea- tre Royal, Cardiff) is the appearance of "Hooli. gan" as the Governor of Cadiz. It will sur- prise most people, however, to learn that an Irishman who has made an enormous fortune in Spain at present occupies there one of the highest positions. Who would recognise "Bill" Murphy in his Excellency the Count de Morphi, private secretary to her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain, Chamberlain ta King Alphonso XIrl., and a Grandee of the First clm? A feature of the monument on "Calfd- fryn's" grave in Groeswen Churchyard is » splendid bronze bust set into the marble. A short while a a farmer in the neighbour- heed was awakened by the loud and angry barking of his dog, and so persistent was the animal that the farmer came down to see what was the matter. The dog was making des. perate efforts to break loose, and seemed eage* to go in the direction of the churchyard. 200 yards away. The farmer made a tour of in- spection, and came upon some men working hard to get out the bronze bust-doubtlest for the sake of what it would fetch. Has the "Lady's Pictorial" old-fashioned n&iorij? There is very little enthusiasm in the following:—"Although we live in an age when, verv properly, the greatest homage i. paid to Art of every kind, it is scarcely sur- prising that the report that their Royal High- nesses the Duke and Duches. of York will visit Madame Adelina Patti at Craig-y-Nos Castls in October has caused some comment. Our Royalties are always glad to honour Art in all its forms, but it is scarcely usual for one steading so near the throne as the Duke of York to become the guest of a public singer, even though she be of Mch 'imique fame II that enjoyed by Madams Patti. Should the rumoured visit take place, no doubt the charming chatelaine of Craig-y-Nos Castle will give her distinguished visitors a truly Royal reception, but none the less will the visit cause a certain amount of surprise amongst people of old-fashioned notWI1,' Aubrey, writing about the middle c! ths seventeenth century, remarks that, "in the strictest time of Presbyterian government, one very singular oustom was prevalent in many parts of rural England and Wales: — "In Shropshire when a person died, there was notice given to an old 'siro' (for S4 they called him), who presently repaired to the place where the deceased lay, and stood before the door of the house, where soaic of the family furnished him with a cricket or stool, on which he sat down faoing ihe (iccr. Then they gave him a groat, which he put in his pocket, a crust of bread, which he ate, and a bowl of ale, which he drank off at one draught. After this he got up I the cricket, and pronounced with a composed I gesture 'the peace and rest of the soul departed, for which he would pawn his own soul. A similar scene is also recorded at Ross, about 1640, when the local "sin- eater," long, lean, lamentable pool nwoal," came, "when the corpse was taken out of the home and laid upon a bier and received a loaf of bread, and a mazard I bowl of maple fuil of beer (which he was ta drink up), and tixpence in money, in con- sideration of which he took upon him, faoto,' a'l the sins of the defunct, and freed him or r from walking after they wort dCld. 1' is noticeable (remark* a wriis* :n the "Giobe") that the "sin-eater's" fes was 2d. dearer in Herefordshire than ia Shropshire, but it is not recorded whether I this arose from ti fact that people wew wickeder in the fmrntt than th* laWsr conntjt