The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-21

1t was ever so. it seems to us. In 1751,
for instance, some unknown person sent
to the Rev. George Phillips, of Haverford-
west a sum of fl00 and directed that 1t
should be applied toward the support OF
poor insolvent debtors in any of the gools
within Haverfordwest. The sum annu-
ally accruing from it is f3 l0s, which Is
able TO keep the debtors In tobacco l,nd
throws in something hot in the bar
gain.
1t is stated that out of every eight peo-
!. pie in WreXham is a Roman Catholic.
1t is said more sailors are to be found
in Cardiff at one time than in any other
port in Great Britain.
A report has been reached that Sir
Richard Bulkeley Is to be appointed lord
lieutenant of the county of Anglesey in
the place of the late Mr. Richard Daveis.
who was nominee of Mr.. Gladstone, but
ne deserted his patron in 1856 and joined
the Unionists.
1t is not without interest to note. says
the Cardiff Mail, that Welshmen are real
izng that there Is greater evil even
than Mckinley, the president-elect of the
United States.
The near relationship between Cornish
men and Welshmen is fact which has
almost faded away from observation.
Eight hundred years ago Cornwall was
known as West Wales, and ours as North
Wales, South Wales then having no sep.
arate existence. About a hundred years
ago old Polly Pentraeth died, who is said
to have been the last to speak Welsh in
Cornwall. The names of numbers Of
places in Cornwall are pure Welsh.
Gwalia's daughters appear to be al rival
ry with her sons in the matter of main
t,,t, th,
world. In the recent competition at the
Royal Academy of Music for the Parepa
Rosa Gold Medal. first honors were won
by Miss Clara Williams. native of North
Wales.
The Swansea Cymrodorion Male choir,
which took the second prize at the ma
tiOnal eisteddfod at Llanduduo, included
among its members several young Iris h
Roman Catholics. One of them (Nlr. j.
McSweeney) was the chairman of the So
ciey. He also is, or was recently, the sec
retary of the Swansea branch of the Irish
National league.
TT is impossible" writes Welsh COM
missioner Ito conceal the fact that good
writers Of Wlesh are scarce at the pres
ent time. and hard to find
In Gwilym Hiraethog's time Wales suf-
fered from three devils--the devil of sing
ing. the devil of electingfvieacons. and the
devil of letting seats Had he been alive
now he would have added a fourth devil
the devil OF proposed Welsh Land Court.
What is the meaning of the word
"CymrO"? Professor Rhys, in the Welsh
Land report, says that the word stands
for an earlier Cambrox. or Conbrox, par
allel to the Gaulish Allo-Eox a name
applied by Gauls to certain Ligurians,
whose country they conquered. And just
as Allobrax meant an alien or foreigner
welsh Allfro), SO Combrox must have
meant zone belonging to ones own coun-
| try, comDatrot.'
A wildly indignant placard has been put
in public places in Carmarthen. 1t is in
the purest Welsh. and the idea may be
weakly conveyed in English as follows:
Municipal EleC ion.-To the Welsh E,lec-
tors. Don't promise your vote to- and
don't vote for and candidate who does
not publish his address in the ancient ma
tional language of Wales. namely. Welsh.
1t brings slander and contempt upon us. a
nation for Welshmen. to address us in
English" If so. Wales is much SIAN
dered these days.
1t is traditional policy of the Dowlais
Iron company never to allow dDnsidera-
tions of cost to enter into their delibera-
tions. III a thing was wanted it was
made or bought. be the cost what ii
might. The wisdom of the policy is being
shown today, for not only is the machin-
cry at Dowlais second to none in the
world. hut 1t Is said that one of the bla $;
furnaces has worked continuously for
the last fourteen years without entailing
penny in the way of cost or repairing.
Herr Wolff, the leader of the Dutch
band which has helped SO much to make
the exhibition popular. had a warm time
with the booking clerk of the Taft Vale
| railway station at Cardiff the other day.
Herr Wolff wanted to go up the Rhondda,