... POETFR Y.: I.INES OS NEW I- . E £VL 1883. 'TIIa i ieil ot th I IIe ?? will 50,01 be iullg, tJAl~ l'n hlurk tlrned ini tir' chnl. n0 true; . ho hallrs ring (lel fnl tha wiv'.1y anie, Lo our ,uiog fur ,ie lae un lie wihely futig. Let us ?? our hope for the comieg xnar 'That with rliurd luel'dmin and and aideoby side, We lory be bornn on iho swifi. rolling'ride Of the inmes, all safe Ilit. ugh ...

... -IPoboudatth-. I-I- . I - , . ODLAIUJ HIRAETH. : Ar ol Funk Lewis' Jones, Isb. bycbi D. M. aa Edith Jones, Gladstone House, Porth, yr han a fa farw Rbhagfyr 16eg, 1885, ya naw niis oed. Febyn tyner chwim ebedaist .Hleibio~i oleu'r pellaf sder; Monwes fwyn dy fam. adewaest Am oleuni gwyneb N-er: Dim and nauwmis byr o amser GeEaist ary ddaear bon: Am dy fod rhy bsr-rhy dyner I un man ond Gwynfa ...

... JOKEIS AND JOKERS. very hntieymoon has a nrmn in it. I'Vomnai writes--Postoript. What is the best tea for a Christmas feast ? Cha ri(tea). The beat bees in tbe family hive. Beabel. The lasta go out at nighi. The candle. What the hatchet said when its handle was broken. Treemrend-us ? (Tremendous.) Tonimy Tacker is very glad Christmas is comting, as his aunt has told him Turkey -will then be ...

... ARlT. ITS RELATION TO EVERY DAY LIFE. Mr W. G. Shrubsole read the followiun paper before tbe members of the Upper Bangor Literary Society on Wednesday evening. The chair was taken by the president, Mr Rowland Jones House Surgeon of the Carbarvonshireaid Aiglese Infirmary'. . Angese To most people art, and all quebtions ?? vith it, holds a position with regard to eiery-day life very much the ...

... TH E PIIESENT POSITION 0F MUSIC IN CARDIFF. bL [;uONt A MuSiCAL CoiiREPi'OSO1ET.] bt To tholse who look back ten years or so and contrasts Ahat Nivs then offered to the urrisicl re public cf Cardiff with thle eisan of musicatl 5 culture at our disposal to-day, it will be clear that to we, have entered upon a nel epoch. We have advanced very considerably in many ways, and P tile concerts of ...

... A preacher of bicoago says of Soloman: * King Soloman had 300 wives and 700 other lady-friends. Listen to your wife, says a medical advertise- ment. What terrible remedies they do get now-a- dlays I Icee-ream in Idaho oobts 6eventy.five cents a plate,, and a mian oii there can't afford to have more tban onea girl. Wberi you spill soup on the table-cloth set your tumnoler on it when your ...

... THE CARDIFF hlUSICAL ASSOCIA- TVONYS CONCERT. Thle fifth annual concert of the above association will be given on Wednesday evening next in tile s Park-hall, Cardiff, and a great musical treat it a promises to be. The mnere mention of the fact that two such works as Haydn's Creation and oi id Mendelssohn's Athalie will be performed ougbt a to ensure a crowded hall, and especially when it is ...

... C.11'DIFF Mll-4 AL ASEUCIA'1ON'S CuNGURT. L The fifth annuil ?? of the above associa- ttion, which was helui on Wediiesdaiy evening at tile Park-hali Cardiff, wee in every s. neo of the word a s greatuc0e55i. T'ie love of oratorio which is so widespread at the piesent day is in itself sufficient to ensure a large audience whenever tie, work of a master is to be produied with atny probability ...

... lUvI REVS. 'TRUTH IN *FALE (MAcmillan and Co.) cooriqets of E ainutuber of short stories by the Bishop of Ripon, Iwho dedicates them to the citlfirelnn wvorshipping- at Christ Church, Lancaster Grate, to whom they- were first told. There are sixteen stories in, nall, ' 1sl p ,told an d interesiting - plenty of simplye the powder, bitt not too much to nullify ite efficacy, or even, for that ...

... FAIRS FOR JANUARY> . , . - ? I! T, l n s l l 'lamsin? ?? 15ss ...

... - ITERARY -NOTICES. IMr H,. ItLucyhas'beennppoiptofr - Daily lat~s.. r M r Laciliois 4 years of age, wsE :.a, oue .timne ebiel. reporter. a .theO S/#rOWesr hlie Itrc and rkl' q . ?? iW .*4 4)o , tls pnlblisbets of this wojrk, b ?j&~rh~6ei . trrar, .riu~to ti) .(4lose the popilar e.jttirip 'v;$llh.y. 15sriru dtf Pai ,X1, which caan u~uw bo i~ea extia0 Wcrhoryun 8v6 clothl for nilx .hlip. The- ? ...

... STARTING A NEW EJ>NTER- | PRISE AT NEWPORT. I 1 1112- a L - usxx. ti} 3 TUTE AIl' ANI) MYSTELY OF C. 5 130'll'LE-MNAK[NG. t 1 LiUY AP UGwtxAs.1 t I had a new experience yesterday, and thiit is M something to say in a world in wilicili it is said M C . there is nothing new under tile sun. I ilave sceen a bottle, as may be imagined, inmny and miany a i time, but l never saw one made or blown, ...