The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-01

New departures are now the rule in con-
noction with the National Eisteddfod. The
music committee of the Newport National
Eisteddfod have, with great appropriate
ness, taken a new turn this year, by In
serting i'm their list of subjects n glee
competition for parties not exceeding
thirty in number, and for which n prize
OF flo is offered for the best rendering.
The selected glee "Y Clychau" C'The
Bells'D is by that Incompatible genius,
"Gwilym event" the finest glee-writer
Wales ever produced. 'Gwilym" was a
Monmouthshire man.
An announcement in a London catalogue
recently of that rare work, Salesburys
New Testament, for sale, In an imperfect
condition, for f36. reminds bookworm
that some years ago sale of books In
Carmarthenshire attracted keen Bristol
buyer who, to his dismay, arrived at the
auction when the greater part of the
books had been sold. He found that one
of the buyers had secured a particular
book he wanted, and saw that 1t was one
of bundle which had been sold for a
sovereign. He offered &C. for one, but was
refused, doubled the offer, and bought
the book. 1t was Salesbury's Testament,
minus q leaf, but it brought the buyer $50.
In the Swansea memorial to the Welsh
sea is more distinctly Welsh than either
Newport or Cardiff. Swansea, in fact,
says the Cardiff Mail, is a halfway house
between the Celtic barbarism of the west
and eastern civilization, which commences
properly at the Ogmore. All the Welsh
spoken in Swansea has been imported
there from Cardiganshire and elsewhere.
In a couple of years or so after he has
come to Swansea even a thoroughbred
Cardi becomes as thoroughly English as
a Number oyster. A hundred years ago
Swansea was English to it's finger tip
Among those who are mentioned in con-
nection with the vacant principalship of
ST. David's college, Lampeter, is the Rev.
Robert Williams. NJ. A.. professor of his
tory and Welsh at the college. Profess
sor Williams, who is native of Tregaron,
has had very distinguished career. AZ
ter graduating at Lampeter he proceeded
to oxford, where he won an open exhibit
tion at Merton college. There he took the
highest honorS-H first class in the modern
history school. Subsequently, he read
theology, and on the appointment of the
Welsh professorship Ohe Rev. owen
Evans) to the wardcnship of Lampetcr.
Mr.. Williams was elected to fill the va
cant chair, and a year later he took over
the history work of the college, on the
departure of Professor Tout. Several OF
his pupils have won scholarships at OK
ford in history.
In the old mining days of Wales work.
men used to discover two valuable pro-
perties in connection with the ironstone
One was an ointment found useful for
bruises, and the other a diamond locally
known as a Welsh diamond which has
some of the properties of the genuine one,
and was used for cutting glass Very
singularly, i'm one of the principal Lon
Con journals detailed recently expert
ments in diamond-making, which were
very successful. though not quite per-
feet, and the process appears to be a
faithful copy of that adopted by nature in
its formation of the Welsh diamond. A
geological correspondent explains the
, method, but here It can only be stated
that the chief points are matriX of IRON
stone and the action of electric heat.
Professor Alfred Hughes, the new occu-
| pant of the Chair of Anatomy at Kings
College, Is n young scientist (says the
| "Star'O who owes his inspiration to the
| modern elements of academic medicine
both in this country and in Germany, and
who was first accepted by Cardiff to hold
| a similar chair at the university college,
| None of his published writings is more
| than ten years old, but during the decade
| he has been gradually adding to his rep
| utation for scrupulous research, especially
| In some of the more obscure features of
| the muscular system. He has made an
| important contribution in German for a
| technical periodical concerning the rotary
| muscles of the spine, and he is already
| responsible for a manual of surgical an
| atomy which embodies the results of his
| own practical teaching. Professor Hughes
| has lectured on his special subject at Ed
inburgh, and Is an enthusiast with the
| microscope.
A South Wales visitor up North tells
the following story. A peer well known in
| Welsh circles had many parsonages on
his estate. for he was the patron of several
| livings. One day he met an incumbent
and asked him chow things were" "Oh,''
1lied the old gentleman-and Off he
| dashed into a jeremiad as to the tumble
down-dick" and draughty tottering struc-
ture, miscalled residence, in which he
and her got into deeper depths each day
with cold and disease. The amiable patri-
clan stood aghast, and at once told the
reverend complainant that he would righ
the matter, and so he did What was by
! force of contrast a palatial mansion soor
shot up into architectural prominence, and
In a very short while the clergyman was
happily fixed In his new quarters. LORD
/ Rountiful met him again later on, and wa!
pleased to find that the rectorisl hear
was abundantly satisfied. But before
shaking hands at parting he asked hi:
protege. "And what have you done with
the old house?" "Oh," was the imme
diate rejoinder, 81 have sent the curatC
to live there"
Dowlais says with a wink, we fancy
that the one choir above all others which
1t does not want to beat is that of LONELY
| Ever since the good old days which be
gan fourteen years ago, when Mr.. Oar
Davies and Mr.. r. C. Jenkins were the re