... OCRf Cardiff £ intcs. FRIDAY, JAN. 31, 1862. ANCIENT AND MODERN CIVILlSA' TION. TiME hallows the past. A tinge of gloff seems to linger aro.und the memory ofthoSØ achievements which were performed in the early stages of man's history. We neV0f think of contrast, and seldom venture a co0' parison, but take the dreams of the poet, and the tales of the mythologist, as creatio#^ too sacred for ...

... We have seen that an animal species imprinted its form on each epoch: the pliocene age was that of elephants. At the present day no elephants are met with in England, except at the Zoological Gardens; but formerly these living masses wandered about in herds. Gigantic elephants, twice the size of the largest specimens ROW existing in Ceylon and Africa, ranged the British forests, swam in the ...

... HORRIBLE NARRATIVE. The St. John Daily News has the following account of the suffering of Johu F. Sullivan, of Hadley-Falls, Massachusets, and his companion deserters from the whaleships Daniel Webster and Ansel Gibbs, of New Bedford, in Cumberland Straits, on the 4th of August last. The narrative was written by G. Sullivan. The crew of the Ansel Gibbs complained of bad. treatment. They were ...

... « The following extract of a letter from Moscow places the question of Poland in a new and far from uninteresting light: JAN., 1882.—The terrible rivalry of Poland and Russia, never a fit subject for European arbitra- tion, was still less one for brutal violence, as Poland, overcome by Russia without the inter- vention of Prussia and Austria, would have remained Poland still. Such is the ...

... THE FROST FAIRY, OH! look, father look on the white window pane! See, see you those flower-like pictures again ? Yes, this seems a garland of daisies to be, And these like the fringed flowers we found by the sea. Did the bright angels leave them, who watch'd round my bed, Ere to Heaven they took the few prayers I said? Oh so beautiful are they, so soft, and so light, I wonder how they could ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. The second part of Orpheus and Eurydice, will appeøt in our next publication. Q. in the Corner says if he were the Mayor of Cardi#' he would have ordered the bus conductors to ceoe their music in the presence of Madame Lind-Goldsd1* midt and her friends. We wish he had, he would ha'l'e saved the companyfromagreatannoyanee. ...

... When your endeavours are directed towards doing good to an individual, in other words, to do him service, if there be any option as the mode or way, consider and observe what mode is best to his taste. If you serve him as you think and say, in a way which is yours, and not his, the value of any service may, by an indefinite manner, be thus reduced. If the action of serving a man, not in the ...

... CARDIFF INFIRMARY. Yesterday the annual general meeting was held, the Mayor presiding; the Bishop of Llandaff, the Dean of Llandaff, Dr. Vachell, Dr. Edwards, J. L. Beece, Esq., E. P. Richards, Esq., J. Watson, Esq., W. Alexander, Esq., J. Bird, Esq., C. Thompson, Esq., and the Rev. W. L. Morgan were present. The MAYOR read the following report:— In presenting the twenty-fifth annual report of ...

... THE DUKE OF BRIDGEWATER. The seclusion which his early disappointment in love had first driven him to, at length grew into a habit. He lived wifeless, and died childless. He would not even allow a woman-servant to wait upon him. In person he ■was large and corpulent, and the slim youth on whom the bet had been made that he would be blown off his horse when riding the race at Trentham Park, so ...

... A person, says the Spo'rt, who looks at the world in somewoat gloomy colours, having recently complained in M. Auber's presence how hard it was that people must grow old, Hard as it is,' replied be veteran composer, it seems to be the only means yet discovered of enjoying long life.' I ...

... THE BRITISH WORKMAN. We are not'aware of any publication of its kind that-is so well sustained, and published every month so presentably as the British Workman. Its illustra- tions are unique, and its articles are of that healthy useful character, which makes it a highly-prized periodical by thousands and tens of thousands. The number for February contains a beautiful medallion portrait of the ...

... AMERICA. I. N -R,V YoRK,JAN.-14.—Mr. Cameron, Secretary for has resigned, and will be replaced by Mr. A. M. Staunton. Mr. Cameron has been appointed minister to 'Russia. Mr. Cassius M. Clay, present minister to the Russian court, will return to America and take. a command in the Federal army. Mr, Seward, in his report on Consular appointments, says :— The government having ascertained that ...