... A DWARFS LOVE AFFAIR. The Paris correspondent of the D*iht Tele rraplt writes — An amorons dwarf, named lfrni.§ lis, at tlu Winter Circus, Is that.fro of a peculiar romance which is i:1t}iOg euacted at thai place of enter; aintceur, and which, it is to be Itoped, wiii 1:a ve a trRgic ending. Vranf lie has fallen head, ears, and brwiy in love with a female pigmy. Virama. a Cin- galese, who acts ...

... THE DEATH FHOM SOALDiKG AT CARDIFF. At a meeting of the C irdiff Board of Guardians on Saturday, under tho presidency of Dr Paine, Mr Ramsdale drew the attontiou of the board to tha case of a child named Edward Lewis Hughes, aged three years and six months, son of James Hughes, of Oairns-f-treefc, Oathays, who had been scalded severely through tho capsizing of a kettle of boiling wittsr, and ...

... Miss Violet- Your brother Percy is studying for the ministry, is he not ? Mr Daze- Yes, and he is going to take orders in a few weeks. Miss Violet— Going to take orders ? Good. ness It is bard that he should have to abandon his good calling to wait iu a restaurant. ...

... (By Old Stager.) The representative team of Welsh Rugby Football players that on Saturday last encountered Scotland gained a great victory-two victories, in fact. In the fir-t place, they defeated our friends the enemy from the land of brown heath and shaggy wood, and in the second place-and per- haps 'twas a more famous victory still—they con- quered the editor of the Cardiff Times. Hitherto ...

... DESECRATION IN PEMBROKE- SHIRE. Indignation Meeting at Mynachlogddu, A meeting has bees heidt Mthe British School, Mynachlogddu, for the purpose of protesting against the work which is at present being carried on in the gravayard of tiie parish church. It Beems that the Dean of St David's desires to hava a chancel added to the present structure. III order that this should be accomplished, a ...

... CARMARTHENSHIRE WELSH CONGREGATIONAUSTS. A quarterly meeting of the Welsh C ...

... The Charge to the Grand Jury At Carmarthenshire assizes on Wednesday^ before Mr Justice Stephen—Henry Jones up for trial on a charge of murdering his daughter, Anne Jane Jones, In charging the grand jury for the county of the borough of Carmarthen, Mr Justice Stephen said there was only one case to come before them, but that was a case of a very serious character. It was the case of a man ...

... LONDON LEiTER EXTRACTS. THE WELCOME TO THK, FKHSECtJtUn M F/S. The Liberal and Radical clubs of the metropolis and the home counties are (tho Manchester Guardian says) taking up the demonstration of i welouie .to Messrs O'Brien and Sullivan with remarkable fervour. The procession from Easton to Hyde Park bids fair to be out of aU comparison larger and more impressive than that which ...

... A DOWLAIS ABDUCTION. A Too-confiding Sweetheart- At Merthyr police-court on Wednesday—before the stipendiary—Swinfer Lewis, Dowiais, was charged under the Criminal Law Amendment Act with abducting Gwen Powell, daughter of Philip Powell, a girl under 18 years of age. MrT. Gwynne Powell, Brynm^wr, appeared for tho prosecution, and Mr John Plews for the defence. TtH charges were brought under ...

... BY W.Abraham, M. P., Mabon. UNION IS STRENGTH. The avowed object of trades unions is to secure for the workmeu that share of the profit of pro- duction which is due to labour.—G. Potter. In view of the fact that the vast majority of our working population continue to be bard workers, and have to be content with the bare necessaries of life, oftentimes with hardly sufficient food and raiment, ...

... Unconscious murderers daily mingle in life's busy throng, who have no thought of the penalty which should be measured out to them, who daily stab and maim their innocent victims with faults of character which they have not the will or in- clination to subdue. A lady in Michigan recently lost an ear through the carelessness of a burglar who shot wide of the mark—her husband. The most painful ...

... LOCAL POLICE NEWS. Theft of Omnibus Tickets at CardiS. — At tbe Cardiff police court on Satuiuay, Samuel Griffiths (18), Frederick Slocombe (17), ani Taomas Evans (16\ 'bus con- ouctors, were cittirged, Griffiths with stealing, and Slocomba and Evans with receiving two rolls ot 'bus tickets, value 22s, from the 'bus office, High-streeet, the property ot Messrs S. Andrews and Sons.—Walter May, ...