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Cilir m-trn-6il-(1tltat. I

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Cilir m-trn-6il-(1tltat. I From certain circumstances which have come to my know;cti;re within the lait few days I am led to believe that those who oarii their liveli- hood by letting loilginas do tif,t always exercise a due amount of circumspection when receiving into their households fetrangerg. Bangor is a favourite res>it of ocaasior ai visitors, and lodging house-keepers if not careful must some- times be victimised by persons who treit their debts in a nonchtlttnf manner, Trtdestiien, too, would do weil to beware of unknown customers. Take, for instsiuce, the case of an individual who suddenly appears upon the s:ene. fashionably attires himself, is ot good address and, appa- rentll of hgh respecUbilitr, and readily ingratiate" himself with the better classes of the inhabitants. Such a person, as a rule, can much more re idily oht »in unlimited credit than one who holds a st,ke in the town. He, perchance, ia simply a bird of passage, and takes infinite delight in setting traps for the unwary. It might be a? well before th-i arrival of next summer were some sxietv formed whereby hardships, or possib'e victimis it on, be obviated. In a small town like this where everybody practically knows everybody's business, it ought to be possible for tradesmen to make a com- bined stand against unknown intruders. Mis Johnson, the widow of Canon Johnson, recent y of flatifiethlu, Anglesey, and formerly of Llsniestyn, Carnarvonshire, has with her farailv, taken lip her residence at Glandon, near Bull Bay. Mm Johnson has not fallen entirely araoDgst strangers, for the lata reverend gentlt- man was for many \e*rs vicar of Llanbadrig. When did your Radical contemporary, Mr Editor, obtain the right to pOS3 as an authority on matters of good taste J I observe that this week it sees fit t) unwarrantly interfere in the election to the important and lucrative post of Professor of Philosophy st the University College of North Wales by advocating the claims of a particular candidate, for this is practically what its artcl. amounts t,. Though as is usual in such cases it begins by virtuously disclaiming any such intention, your contemporary proceeds to insinuate what it evidently has not the courage to prove, viz., that the College authori- ties in question are actuated by ant:-Welsh prejudices. If ;t imagines it has facts for this serious allegation let it state them so that they can either be confirmed or relut"d. It is cowatdly to proceed in this insinuating way which gives tie College authorities no oppor- tunity of defending themselves. If it objects to supplying facts, why cannot it let the Col'ege alone. u By the kind permission ot the Hon. F. G. Wynn, Glynilifor;, I am enabled to place before your readers, Mr Editor, some interesting particulars as to how the Island became the property of the Wynns of Ulynllivon. At the battle of Norwich (1549),in the reign of Edward VI., a gallant young man named John Bodral, of Bodral, who was afterwards father of Thomas WynD, of Bodral, and he founder of the Wynn family, cariied the standard of the Royalists. The batt'e raged fast and furious. At last the gallant standard bearer was surrounded but determined to die game. lie wrapped the Royal colour round his body, and taking the flag staff he bean to mow down the rebels all round him like ninepius. The battle was won, and tho King, hearing of the youniz manli gaNautr sent for him. On being asked by the Kiiaz where te came froT, he said Glynllivon, Carnarvonshire. The King then gave him the Island of Bardsey, and the land about Aber- daroti. A short time ago a paragraph in the North Wales Chronicle describing the mausoleum and monument and cross over Lord Nowbo- rough's last renting place, he having desired in his will to be buried there, on his favourite island. I believe it is said that the last time he -visited the island, saying good-bye to the island, he said, We shall meet again." The monumentean be een from all part, and acts .as a landmark for mariners at sea. Mr Wynn has also erected a monument over the graves of ithe monks, hundreds of whom chose the island for their last resting place. Mr Wynn having T-ead the paragraph in the Xorth Wales Chronicle, marked it out, and forwarded it to Sir Henry Poofiouby, Windsor, and Sir Henry asked hEr Majesty if she w¡)uld liie to read the aCcollllt of Bardaey Island. Stio read it. and told S r flenry towrte to Mr Wynn to tell him how interested she had been in reading it, as many years ago, whilst on a visit to North Wales (the Royal party wiltre staying at Penrhyn Castle) with the Prince Consort on a yachting eruise, she and the Prince landed on Birdeey Island, and were greatly int -rested with their visit to the island. There is an anecdote told of Lord Nelscn that he was onea weather-hound on Bardsey and enable t ) get on laud for a week. The late Mr Picton Jones, agent, eft into a great state of raigd, and at last biivd a tugboat, and put pro- visions &c on b)arii, nilt when the tugboat arrived on a Monday, his lordship I ad been able to land th £ day before, and when asked how he had L,(jt gn gli joyed a pleasinter j *eek,' I am pleased to learn from Captain Pritchard- R ivner that the fund for the restoration of Coedana Church now amounts to something like JE300, so thit there is a hope that building operations will be begun early in the new year. The other day Mr Richards received an anony- mous letter containing a cheque for 910. The late Mr Hemming, of Bentley Manor, and of 15, Grobvenor-place, London, whose death we recently recorded was the eldekt son of Mr William Hemming, of Uromsgrove, who served the office of High-sheriff for the county in 1845. Mr Hemming, lately deceased, was appointed High-sheriff of Worcestershire in 1863, and his name would have been on the list of sheriffs for this year for Carnarvonshire but for failing health and inability. He acquired his property iu Wales through his wife. On the death of her brother, the late Mr H. D. Griffiths, of Caer- hun, without if sue, Mrs Hemming became heiress of the whole of the Welsh property, both on her father and motlier.:s side. The la te Mr Hemming's brother had also been appointed high-sheriff for Worcestershire, and this circum- stance may be quoted as very rare for three members of tha isame family to have served this high and honourable office within twenty years of each other. Miss Gwennie Davies, youngest daughter of Mr William Davies (Mynorydd I, and sister of Mrs Mary Davies, will in February next leave England for Adelaide, Australia, where she will become the wife of Mr Hastings, principal of Adelaide College. Quite a sensation has been created in our little city within the II\,t ten days by the sudden disappearance of a gentleman who has posed as a veritable magnate in social circles,run up long bills with local tradesmen, and caused one or two ladies with whom he lodged to mourn his absence and shea tears over the slight remains he has left behind. His Honour Sir Horatio Lloyd, dealing with the case of Robert Slateum, of Rhyl, at the Bangor Bankruptcy Court on Monday, said the escapades of the bankrupt and his wife formed the subject mattar tor several three volume novels of more than average interest, but I have reason to believe that were the whole of the circumstances connected with our visitor disclosed they would form the materials for a rival story of Theodore Hook's "Jack Brag." The individual under treatment laid claim to being a member of the amtoeracv, but owin?, as he alleged, to an unfortunate quarrel with the Editor of Debrett his name and descent were omitted from that e'egaut and portly volume. I am not speaking at random as to the antecedents of this "nice yonng gentleman," who has so cleverly put his foot" down and baffled his confiding creditors: The Rev. John Williams Meyrick's suspen- sion ah offi-'iu et beii'fivio for a period of two years, will end on the 5th of March next. Since his suspension the rector of Llandegfau-cum- Beaumiuis has resided in Upper Bangor. The Hon. Adela Doughs Pennant was one of the performers at the evening concert given in aid of the Menai Bridge National Schools on Tuesday. She played a pianoforte solo, which was thoroughly enjoyed by the large audience. Five of the professional statt of t'i a University College of North Wiilo3 a'e byciclist', and, almost daily, employ their machines. The headmaster of Friars School is also a bicyclist. Carmen Sylva will contribute to the January number of the Sunday Magazine a story entitled Home Secretary." Canon Silvan Evanp, R.D., upon whom has been conferred the Prebeml of Llanfair, in Bangor Cathedral, is one of the most eminent Ce tic scholars and a prolific author. He was ordained by Bishop Bethell 43 years ago, and is now rector of Llanwrin, Machynlleth, and since 18S8 has been a non-residentiary Canon of Bangor Cat h edral. Sir John Puleston, M P., paid a flying visit to Bangor on Saturday, and in the alternoon visited the Bangor Workingmen's Conservative Club, where he met with a cordial reception. On Sunday morning Sir John attended Divine service at the Cathedral. During his stay in the citv he was the guest of Colonel the Hon. W. E. Sackville West at Lime Grove. A marriage has bean arranged between Mr George Owen, Carnarvon, the generil secretary of the Carnarvonshire Constitutional Associa- tion, and Miss Evangeline Gregsor, youngest daughtar of Mr Nicholas Gregson, J.P., of Kirby Stephen, Westmoreland. The ceremony will tike place at the bride's home on the 30th iust. The Bishop of Bangor, who preached at the Cathedral in thii c ty on Sundav morning, introduced the word "boycct" into his sermon. He founded his discourse on the text 11 I am among you as he that serveth," and spoke a great deal about the c'asses and the masses. Yet his lordship's application of the word was singularly apropos. I understand that the Rev. J. S. Boucher, formerly principal of Carnarvon Training College, has published a work called" Lecture Note Papers," a manual of doctrine and practical notes for Church teachers, which is highly spoken of by the Church newspapers. So satisfied with the extraordinary and correct manner with which the phonograph reproduces speeches, I may say that the wife of the Lord- lieutenant of Anglesey (Mrs Richard Davies, Treborth) told a friend of hers the other day that she would gladly draw a cheque for £ 2000 if sho could only listen to a sermon delivered by her late lamented father, the Rev. Henry ltees, who was one of the men of light and leading in the Principality. The voice of the late Robert Browning, the poet, has been repeatedly repro- duced since his decease, and Mr Edison's agent informed his Bangor audiences that his instru- ment was capable ot zuou reproductions, in one instance Mr Edison himself has succeeded in obtaining 6000 repetitions of the same impression without any apparent diminution of volume of sound. A life-1 ke portrait of Professor Henry Jones, I.A, appears in the current number of the Magazine of the University College of North Wales." It is a Woodbury-sravure, alter a photograph by Mr J. Wickens, Upper Bangor. Lovers of science and others who visited the Penrhyn Hall on Friday and Saturday last listened with much interest and pleasiire to the enteit.inment provided for them by Mr G. H. Sangster, the agent of Mr Edison. It is to be regretted that the skill and ability of the enter- tainmeut was not rewarded by larger audiences. I am afraid that Bangorjans are devoid of scientific tastes. The lecturer exhibited a phonograph fitted up with Mr Edison's latest improvements. A cylinder of a composition of wax was made to rotate, uniformly. on which tracings were made by a needle attached firmly to a thin membrane, which took up the vibration of the surrounding air caused by the sounding body. Thus a register was secured by any series of sounds in the form of aD irregular live which, by reversing the process, could be made to re-produce the original sounds, whioh were intensified to the auditors by the aid of a micro- phone. In illustration of the working of the instrument, the lecturer reproduced songs by Mr Hughes, ofColwyn Bay, Mr Parnham, Car- narvon, a duet by Bethesda quarrvmen, a speech byPriniipal Reiche', a recitation by Mr C. D. Humphreys ("Carlo"), a proclamation with bell accompaniment by the Carnarvon Town Crier, a selection from "Carmen up to DitVbythe BandoftheCoistream Guards, a German Students' Chorus by the Grenadier Banrl, and a series of cornet and bassoon solos by London and local musicians. The auditors were particularly pleased with the band repro- duction?, which give one the ideaof an invisible orchestra. The pice of the insbument was stated to be £2õO, but it is hoped in course of time to manufacture them at a much lower rate, in fact Mr Edison trusts daring next year to1 place tliem in the possession of the public nt a ftital of something like £ 8 per annum, at which ,sum they are DQW let to hotel proprietors j and others in America. We may, therefore, expect that the phonograph will eventually take the place of a piano in houses where there are not accomplished executants. So many pranks imay be played with the phonograph that I feat a certain section will regard it with suspicion and dread. Photography has, within recent yearf, been made a powerful instrument in the detection of crime, and who knows whether the phonograph may not be blought into our criminal courts for the same purpose. There is a story to the effect that a certain American landlady once brought an action for slander against an ingell ious lodger who surreptit ous'y introduced a phonograph into her kitchen, which made a record of her remarks while the dinner was in course of pteparation. Imagine her chagrin, and the amusement of the other lodgers on hearing repeated her instructions to her maid to obtain an inferior quality of meat and other eatables on the grounds of economy, inasmuch as her lodgers were paying a fixed taroff of five dollars per week. The case was, st; ange to say, settled by the defendant apolo- gising and paying ccsts. Whether the will of the late Dr. Richards contains the disposition of any sum towards local public charities ? Who will be the M.P. for Anglesey in the next Parliament ? Whether the Duke of Clarence, now that he is about to be married, will purchase a shooting box in Wales ? Whether Mr Lewis Morris has yet found a constituency P Whether Mr Taylor intends to clear the course for him in West Denbighshire? When the promised intermediate school for girls will be established in Bangor ? Whether it is really true that the students of the University College of North Wales really believe in ghests ? Whether these ghosts are the apparitions of deceased zoological specimens which have been denied the rites of orthodox burial P Whether one of these apparitions is not very much l,ke a wliale ? Whether the mottoe of the believers in these ghosts is not" Steady boys, steady f" Who the theologian was who attended the meeting of the Menai Society expecting to hear a lecture upon" Paradise f" Whether he went home and soothed his out- raged feelings by reading Milton's (.'rand epic? Whether a certain chemist did also attend under the delusion that the "life of Faraday" would be dealt with? Whether the lecturer himselt seemed to know what actually was the subject P That Mrs Cornwallis West, who is now the mother-in-law of Prince Henry of PIes., was married at a very early age, namelv, 17. That she still retains her youthful beauty. That she has large dark eyes, a fresh com- plexion, a faultless figure, and an engaging manner. That Mrs West delights in making neat little speeches in publie. That there are at present 300 members of the Menai Society of Natural Science and Literature.

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