The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-23

Welsh Methodists in Liverpool held their
seventeenth annual celebration or churcn
music recel.ly, and with a chorus OF ,Vo
singers and an audience OF 5000. the pro-
ceeding1 we,e q thorough success. The
chorus YES supplemented BY full or
chsstra, and not only hymns, but an an
tac;n ana Two OF hanuers choruses were
sung. Mr.. Tom Price. of Merthyr. con-
Quoted for the second time, which fact
Is ELOQUENT OF the character or the iirst
impr, ion.
The only man who ever stopped n train
in Wales after leaving the depot was the
ls:o Rev. John Williams, OF New Castle
Emlyn. Williams had a voice strong rs
thunder; He was on q big preaching tour
and arrived just minute too late ut the
station. The engine had a hundred yards
start; Williams roared loud enough for
the boiler to hear. The engineer was
freishtened and in his fright came back.
Williams explained that 10000 people
would be disappointed unless he could go
by that train" And he went.
Unlike his learned brethren. Judge CIVIL
YIN Williams does not pretend there Is 10
recently he told solicitor. who is also
oounseilor: IF you waste as much time
On the council as you do here, you will
Soon get expelled by your constituents"
Mr.. II. II. Richards, Of Carnarvon, and
q Welsh Methodist ministerial student at
the Cardiff University college, has just
won the highest close scholarship in
Classics at Jesus colleg, Oxford. The schol-
asship is Of the value Of y4O0 year.
1t cannot truthfully be said that the
present government is pursuing q mig
gardly policy toward Wales, for this year
again provision has been made for Il fur
ther grant of floO toward the work of pres
pairing descriptive catalogue OF Welsh
MSS. Mr.. Gwenogfryn Evans, who has
the work in hand, says, In his official
statement as to the scope of his mission:
THE principal collections of Welsh MSS.
nre the Mostyn Hall MSS, the Conway
Mss, the penarth MSS. the Chwilog
Castle MSS. Their are besides Welsh MSS.
at Drogyntyn. Wynnstay, Hanover, the
British Museum. the Bodleian Library,
Jesus college. and numerous small col
ioetions In different parts Of Wales. 1t is
impossible to estimate the time it will
take to complete the catalogue Of Welsh
MSS. The contents are SO various In the
great majority of cases that few MSS
can be dismissed with general character
ization. II tho catalogue is to be Of service
to the student"
1t Is stated on what may be considered
good authority that the exhibition idea
towns and villages Of Wales. At Llaner-
chymedd the shOemakers-who compose
The bulk of the population-ta!k of having
gn exhibition all for themselves. At
Llanwrst the bards will hold big ex-
hibition of "awdlau cadeiriol' and prydd-
estau, some of which are as long as
the Mississippi. tfshguard is talking OF
having French" affair, and Llanelly
tinplate trade. while Swansea contem-
Places eXn,piung a century of abortive
schemes. which, IL s said. will Ill
building as big as the Cardiff exhibition.
An amusing conversation took place be-
tween Londoner and Cardiffian at The
exhlDiton now opened at Cardiff, immedi-
ateiy after the opening ceremony. who
Is that individual with the long hair?"
asked the visitor. "oh. that's DR.. Parry
the composer" was the reply. CDR. par
ry? Never heard of him. i suppose he
isn't much: never done anything great?
Never composed anything like that tune
cali it 'Aberystwith' :" nice mat tume thatys ay
remarked the local man. Mice tune"
said the other; its grand, man, simply
a genius" That's the man" returned
the Cardiftian; that man with the long
hair, DR.. Parry" and whilst the Lon.
doner was recovering he calmly lighted
cigar and then suggested that they should
search out few more Welsh COMPOSERS
In pulverising the Gorsedd Prof. Nor
rls Jones Is responsible for the outpour.
ing h Oh sun greater contempt on that time
don contemporary was read that "the an
cient Welsh Eistcddfodau strongly resem-
bled the Olympic games. and were not
the present singing and reciting congresses
or Philistines and poetasters, in which
every Dissenting minister who has written
prize poem thinks himself a Sophocoles
or Aeschylus. Some of these British
Olympies;' as old Tennant calls them,
piau CStone. of the GamesD, Penmaen-
mawr. North Wales. There were in all
twenty-four games or competitions, VIZ,
ten manly, ten Juveniles and four minor
events. The manly games We're weight
lifting, running, leaping, swimming.
wrestling. riding (Which, perhaps, includ-
ed chariot driving). archery, sword and
buclier play, two-ha nded sword-play and
quarterstaff. The Juvenile games were
coursing with the greyhound, fishing,
fowlins, poetical competitions, harp play.
ing, reading Welsh, solo singing, part
singing, drawing coats-of-arms, and her.
aldry. The minor games We're draughts
played with men (probably fox aud
geese), backgammon, dicing and tuning
the harp"