The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-19

and lately of Cover, o., America, recently
returned to his native country through
i'll health.
One of the oratorical blossoms at the
recent meeting of the Llantwit Lower
Parish council was-"You've no more
brains in your head than you have In
your boots"
The editor of a Monmouthshire weekly,
In reply to "hypercritical' cleric, states
that newspaper paragraphs are not
penned in the same leisurely fashion as
pulpit oratons."
A poem by Frances Ridley HayergaI,
written by this gifted authoress on st.
Catherlns Rock, Tenby, about thirty
years ago, is reproduced in the current
issue of the Queen.
Zig-zag paths are being constructed
along the hill leading from Whitmore
Bay, Barry Island, and gradually this
favorito haunt is shaping after our mod
ern seaside resorts.
The Rev. D. S. Davies, Carmarthen,
who has been in falling health for some
time, has for short period relinqulshed
pulpit services, and Is taking a short
holiday at Llanfairfechan.
Lieutenant Lewis, r. N, has beer har-
bor of Meath for the past thirty years
Though SO years of age, he cycles and
plays golf and tennis with an energy
which mary younger man might envy.
Some time ago Mr.. Fentou, of Penn
broke, found a Kaffir chief in the interior
of Africa who could speak Welsh. and
his name turned out to be william
Rowe, of Abergwaun. Pembrokeshirew
1t is rrmored that Il South Wales con-
stituency which at the last general cleo
tion did away with It's old Liberal love
to put up with new Tory admirer, Is
in danger of transgress!ng the tenth COM
mandmen:.
The East Carmatheu Liberal associa-
tion has been the first to endorse the pro-
posals of the Welsh Parliamentary party,
and to appoint representatives on the ma
tional convention which meets at Car
diff in October.
The Rev. William James, b. A. the
Davies lecturer at this years general as
sembly of the Calvinistic Methodists, at
Rhyl, is ticking as the subject of his lee
ture, The Church, Her Ministry, and
Her Sacramepts,"
The receipts from the Brecon eisted-
fodd anG concerts amount to something
like 1900, and j. Is expected thai about f4OO
Of this sum will be handed over to the
corporation towards defraying the cost
of the new Market hall
On the initiative of Mrs. Patton, a men,
ber of the Llanelfy board of guardians
Women's National Federation, are ad-
vocating the provision of a special insti-
tuition in every county for the treatment
n nd oHI ton 90 i,,a1N
Others, beside Mr.. Owen M Edwards,
find the field of Welsh journalism any
thing but rich pastures, and rumors are
once more rife of contemplated change
In the proprietorship cf a. newspaper
which has already a wide and varied ex-
perience i'll this respect.
This is what a budding spring poet
from Monmouthshire recently delivered
himself Of:
'Rodd dyn bach yn byw YIN Cwmyou
All dafod an ddicon ddoi
Ond am witho a cnrafu-Ii gynari delulu
'Dodd neb NOR llwyddianus ar boi.
Orchestras now form a familiar feature
in Welsh Nonconformist UNCONVENTIONAL
musical festivals, but 1t has been left for
Nonconformist church in the Garw Val
ley to lea1 the van by having a chapel or
ehestra to take the place of the harmon
ium or organ at the ordinary Sunday SER
vices.
There are quite number Of Welsh mis-
sionaries home from the scenes of their
foreign labors just now. The Congrega-
tional union at Liverpool expects to see
at least four of them at their gathering
These are Dafydd Griffiths Madagascar;
Picton Jones, Bowen Rees, and Mrs.
Thomas. from India.
Several octogenarians have recently
passed away in West Wales Including
Mrs. Mary Richards, Priory street, Car.
marthen, aged S8 years; Mr.. William
Roach, for fifty years a faithful servant
in the Cuffern family. Pembrokeshre,
aged 81 years, and Mr.. Ebenezer SAFES,
Shirley House, Tenby, aged so years.
Mr.. Martin Rees, son of Mr.. Stephen
Rees, Penygroes, Pembrokeshire, and
brother of Mr.. Daniel Rees, the editor CT
the Welsh and English Heralds at Car
narvon, has just been admitted a Fellow
of the Institute Of Actuaries. Mr.. Martin
Rees is at present member of the staff
of the Alliance Insurance company, Wrex-
ham.
1t was thought not improbable a twelve
month ago that lord Penrhyn would be
offered n dukedom to commemorate the
diamond jubilee. This is now considered
out of the queston-and so the Penrhyn
quarrymen who have reopened an old
disused quarry near Snowden have Just
renamed 1t "The Victoria Jubilee
Quarry
Mr.. William Lewis. Penydarren, writes
to point out that several laymen occupied
the chair of the Welsh Baptist union be.
fore Mr.. Alfred Thomas, NJ. F., who was
chairman in 1886. For instance, Mr.. John
Evans, Brecon, occupied that distiug-
uished position in 1868; Mr. Llewellyn Jen-
kins, Maesycwmmer. In 1876, and Mr..
owen Jones, London, In 1855
Adarng milliner has introduced the Ieelc
on d diamond jubilee hat. The crown OF
this hat is made a mass of white roses,
the brim IS of green shamrocks and
bunch OF thstles stand up effectively at
the left side. The leeks appear on the
right side The white bulbs are turned
uppermost, ard the tufts of white roots
are shown to their fun advantage.
The Rev. ]. Evans Owen, of Llanberis,
has been ordered by his medical adviser
to take a complete rest for scme time
and his church, with the generosity which
so frequently marks Noncontormist
churches under such circumstances has
undertaken to provide at their own ex-'
pense all pulpit supplies during his COM
pulsory retirement, continuing his salary
as heretofore.
The remains of Lady Lawson, wife OF
Sir Edward Lawson, have been laid to
rest in the churchyard of Beaconstield,
Buckinghamshire Among those who sent
wreaths were the Prince of Wales, Mad
anne Patti, Sir Henry Irving, Mr. and
Mrs. Kendall, Mr.. and Mrs. Bancroft, Mr..
Justice and Lady Hawkins, Mr.. j. l..
Toole, Mr. II. McCalmont, NJ. r., and Sir