Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1878-05-29 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

PRIC. or Batrissi logo—The as,w. ing on the average prices of lintash cora for ths week ending May 25, as received from the inspectcrs and officer. of Exam :—Wheat. 51s. 2d. ; barley. og.a, 1133. 5.1. per imperial qr, rorresp wevk toot NOON :—.Wiseat, free. Ill.; barley, STe. ,cL oats, ..Id. s. ,  Dial. or TOM Scorrise LAM, —Mr. Wi'.liane Campbell, the Scottieb giant ,liod on Sunday at his own house, the Dote of Wellington. Ne.rcaitle.onTyne, at the age of 26. Campbell had hero exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, and returned t. Nowotodle, intending to May only • few day, He sthot feet 3 niche., weighed 52 stone. meunred lb inthes round the ohnuldera 76 round the hreast. 47 round the tfiigh, and 35 round the call of the 1,5. He was oily Ili ten dam. Al-WY:4,1100B Cosvicra.—As a gan., o ni were returning from their wik at P,LA::. Dockyard Extension one day lat week . the gene broke away mid ran in toe direction ••f tio . into which they plunged. They swam ..oit Mame until they reuhed a boat, teeto whiii they got, and, having stripped, prareeded to unum theri,,vee by taking header, laughing heartily at the. thoers who were watching them from the bank. Tney were surrounded to prevent any to...deity 01 moape, and after baton. to their hearts' content they seem sahore and eurreedered. They were immediately handcuffed and conveyed to separate ea., to awed the result of their adventure N,,VEL WAY OF FIIIIHATESI, The Ameri.ns have • curiooee method ot frightening away crows from • newly sown field They. make piper none. some four or five inch. long and ea in at the larger end to admit the herd of tome'. it the bottom they place amine wed, the Mei le of tie top being owitod with bird-Lime. The cones thus prepared are pfi thtreigiitlearth: it pun tempted too door o 0. bead after the s'.:ted, and upon withdrawing it the cone adheres to him tightly. Him mope., with the cap on we he blindly thee hither and thither among ids relations, frightens them so much that they aloe el I trot pale at any rate, they fly off with horror dept.:lel in their countenances, and • chorus of poor Karr, the white devil km got him at last, and no they are never wren again in the mine field, do. Tim Tamed. or Viarfis OVER Vile The Actoriel. World tells the following :—•• Le poor fellow who writes paragraphs for the newspaperr and who, in a ihfferent way to that des,rilied by l'hut eray, almost succeeds in lertygon nothing • rem. ormubt ject of many • good story, in which the , and the pethAdA Age curfo.ly blended. One of thme ranters wee bloomed by Providence with children to the number of about fourteen when the tale is above twelve, one or more is of no consequm. in • stirY) and had naturally a rare struggiv to keep all three heads above water. Friday arrived, the mum wee exhumed, arid the rum male one last effort to provide food for his fourteen hungry little one.. He write an account of the inquest concerning a horrible Imo den and suicide, and dropped it into the box of the newspaper Hut then paid on Saturday for work done on the previous day. Having tone sowed the ,00d seed he departed. but there came by the devil ni the shape of another leaver...to the akirts of the r who jalethed Mi the good wed—that is, lie hooked up the hLS, with the aid of • Lent woo'. The tom very soon copied, and the thWeiZter'e oo name at the 1.. t, dropped into ths mete box- In the morning name the tro.,bled father to draw the half-crown that was to keep the wolf from the door until the hi. o.lay; but he we, met with them:weer that Mr. tt., An.l So had contributed that paragraph and had been paid for it. Away he rushed to the thief m.I roundly accused him of the deed, but the gee, al maintained that hawse present at the inquest, but in the back-ground. • Nothmg of the kind,' m.. 1 the outraged father; • there was ri in. queet at all I invented it myself because I wee so inferually hard up.' Tableon—Triuniph of virt.ve e. vice. You Pa, row money ; and m to who, his virtue and which vice, it is purely • matter of choice."  L  .