The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-10


NEWS NOTES FROM WALES.
Special to the Scranton Tribune.
London, Nov. 1.
T. L. Ellis, NJ. p, is in favor of the
establishment of separate local gov
ernment board for Wales.
The funds granted by the state in 1869
for all forms of public education in
Wales amounted to less than $2lO,0O0;
now the grants to Wales reach nearly
$2,15O,OO0.
Bryn Roberts, M. p, though an or
thodox Methodist of the old type, and a
deacon, is q straight rider to hounds
an inveterate chess player and one Of
the best billiard players in the house
of commons.
Letters are still extant which show
that the son of the great Daniel Row
lands, of Llangeitho, was violently in
love wit hthe daughter of the revival
ist, Howell Harries, of Trefecca.
Though their fathers were so intimate
ly associated in the Methodist revival,
young Rowlands complained that Miss
Harries would not smile upon his suit.
Robert Davies, Bodlondeb, Menal
Bridge, is the richest and most eccen-
trio man in North Wales. He Is the
brother of Richard Davies, lord-lieu-
tenant, and for some NJ. p. for An
glesey. His hobby is surprising the
struggling English causes on the
North Wales coast by suddenly and
without any warning clearing off their
debts, which are never light, by the
way.
yarmouth" supplies a curious in
stance of the way in which ignorant
English tourists mutilated Welsh name
The Welsh name is Abermawddy (cor-
rupted, in popular slang, into Bermo),
which means, being interpreted, "the
mouth of the Mawllwy." Englishmen
concluded that Ber or Bar was the name
of the river, and ''mo" was short for
mouth. Hence the curious name Of
yarmouth"
Two Welshmen of the name of Rob-
ert Williams have taken a first-class in
the Honour School of Modern History
at Oxford. One is Rev. Robert Will
Jams, rector of Dolwyddelen, who has
contributed chapter to Dr. Traill' s
monumental book on Social England" I"
The other is Rev. Robert Williams,
professor of Welshhistory at st. David's
college, Lampeter, and a man who is
likely to be heard of in the future.
The village of Penllwyn, near Aber-
ystwyth, can boast Of being the birth
place of more distinguished men than
any hamlet Of the same size in Wales.
DR.. Edwards, of Bala; Ieuan Gwyllt,
his brothers, Robert and Isaac Roberts,
and Principal Prys, of Trefecca, are a
few of the great men it has turned out.
DR.. Cynddylan Jones and the eminent
Celtic scholar, Professor Rhys, oxford,
We're at one time pupil teachers at the
village board school.
Town councils in Welsh Wales do not
seem to be an unmitigated success.
The Carmarthen town council, if we
may believe the local press, Is about
the most wretched municipality in the
kingdom. Some of the academical lights
of st. David's college give the palm to
the Lampeter town council for invinci-
BILE inertia, while the Aberystwyth folk
will have 1t that the solitary drawback
to the charms of the queen of Welsh
watering places is the unutterable stu
pidity of the local council.
1t may not be generally known that
Lady Osborne Morgan is an accom-
plished public speaker. At a Cymru
Fydd meeting, which was recentlyNheld
at Brymbo, North Wales, she drew
such a vivid picture of the old Welsh
chieftains setting out to the battlefield
amid the blessings and prayers of their
wives and daughters and called upon
modern Welsh women to strengthen
the purpose of their sons and hus-
bands, and brothers in fighting the
same battle of nationalism, that the
meeting became frantic with enthusl.
asm.
In DR.. Thomas Charles Edwards, OF
Bala, are united two families which arc
among the most illustrious in Welsh
history The Thomas Charles" de.
notes the descent from Thomas Charles
of Bala, the founder of the Welsh Sun.
day schools and the organizer of Welsh
Methodism. The Edwards" he inner
its from his father, the late DR.. Lewis
Edwards, of Bala, one of the few
Welshmen of whom Scotch univers
ity conferred an honorary degree. The
fame of the two families will not bC
dimmed by the achievements of the
author of the Commentary on the
Epistle Of the Corinthians which ha.
excited such intense admiration IL
England and America.
That France is consumed with jeal
ousy Of English greatness is wei
known; but it is too bad that 1t SHOULD
try to rob gallant little Wales" of tn,
credit of having produced the Arthur
ian legends. Some envious French
critics have tried to prove that Arthur
and the Knights OF the Round Tabl,
are only q cheap and nasty imitation
of Charlemagne and his Paladins, ant
that the famous Excalibur is only
Welsh for Durandal. We shall next O
all be told that Hhys ap Thomas is
myth founded on the story Of Du Cues
clin, and that his horse. Llwydybacse
never had an independent existence.