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GLAMORGANSHIRE -GOLF ULUB.I

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IBOUTH WALES r IDE FABLE,…

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The Man About Town.I

Women of the Day. I

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Women of the Day. I Miss Frances Power Cobbe was born in 1822, ab Newbridge, in the county of Dublin. She is thus au Irishwoman, though of English descent, for she came of an English fitock which settled in Ireland in the 18th century. Her father nobly MISS OOBBB. served under Welles- ley in India, and, on his retirement from the Army, became an Irish landlord of tho noblest and most generous type. Her mother again was a lady of exquisite gentleness, though in very delicate health. On the death of her father, Miss Cobbe took a loi;g journey across Europe to the Hoiy Land. After her return from a year's pilgrimage she settled down at Bristol to help Mary Carpenter in her Reformatory and Ragged School work. After spending some time in this service, she found a fresh field' of activity in workhouse reform. She visited many of the English workhouses in 1859, and found that the sick lay on wretched beds, in filthy wards, and that thoy were nursed by pauper women of the lowest class. The pauper children were also nob only without the tenderness (,f motherhood, but with- out toys, or flowers, or anything which could gladden and sweeten existence. For her efforts in this matter she deserves the blessing of all who are interested in child life. In the year 1863 Miss Cohbt,'s attention was called to the fearful torture inflicted-by the vivisectorsof the Continent upon helpless animals, not forellume purposes of research, but solely for purposes of demonstration and experiment. At once she took up a pen barbed with steel and fledged with fire Against these iniquities. Her first article was pubhehed by Mr Froude, in Eraser's Magazine, in 1863, It wa* entitled The Rights ot Man and the Claims of Brutes." This began the warfare, which she has continued until the present time.

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OUBAN REVOLT.-I

MAY DAY IN PARIS.I

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IMuswell Hill Murder.' j

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EMPERORS RACING YACHT,___I

TO-DAY'S WEATHEK, 4.30 P.M.

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Rhodes and the Raid.