... 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 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, ...

... CARDIFF TOWN COUNCIL. Evening Meeiings a Failure. At a meeting of the Cardiff Town Cuuncil on Monday evening, Mr J. BKAVAX moved the elimination from the report of the packs committee of a recommend- ation to the effect that the corporation be recom- mended to increase the amount to be expended on the Roatli Park to £ -10.000. He said that there had bean a stood deal of grumbling at the idea ...

... Being the Random Recollections of a South Wales dournalist, BY J. C. MANNING (CARL MORQANWG), Author of Frozen Hearts, Paul Tracey's Legacy, &c. CHAPTER Y. THE FIRST DAILY PAPKR IX WALES, On Monday, the 20,,1. of May, 1861, what was then known as the Cambrian Daily Leader first saw the light in a dingy room in one of the narrowest, and in thosfc days one of the dirtieo;t and glomiest, ...

... A GOOD WORD FOR POETRY. Young Poet (writing): Gus, give me a rhyme for hope. Gus: 44 4 Soap. 441 wouldn't put such a word in a poem of mine ''You'll have to, Charley, if you expect to ell it. ...

... If it were the fashion for men to wear bustles, they wouldn't know how to sit down, Aagtba women's superiority, ...

... Interview with a Lamp Manu- facturer. His Opinions of the Electric Lamps. [BY OUR MINING CORRESPONDENT.] There can be little doubt as to what would have been the consequence if Parliament had passed a law prohibiting in all fiery mines the use of the unprotected Davy, Clanny, and lamps of a similar description, and making it compulsory on the owners to adopt the safety lamp recommended by the ...

... In Dublin, on Saturday, before Chief Baron alles and a special jury, theheanngwas ^irnencd of the action brought by Mr Wilfred Blunt against Mr Byrne, divisional l^sristrate, for arrest and false imprisonment. A ^ige crowd assembled in the hall of the four e'trts and its vicinity, and Mr Blunt, on his arriving in custody, was greeted with cheers. of the jury are, it is said, Nationalists. ...

... An interesting breach of promise case was heard at the Manchester assises on Tuesday, before Mr Justice Grantham and a special jury. Mr Addison, Q.C., for the plaintiff, Miss Holmes, said she was the daughter of a muier who until recently carried on business at Denby Dale, near Huddersfield. The defendant was the son of Mr Brierley, of the firm of Messrs Brierley and Sons, dyers, of the same ...

... Shocking Story from St. Asaph. The Deubighah ire Free Press of Saturday Kives pro- minence to tbe fulluwing revolting story. h states: Particulars reach us of a painful incident likely to end in legal proceedings. A pauper from Abergele died at fit. Asaph, and the churchyard being closed by order, the vicar bad the grave prepared in the new cemetery, but the deputy parish clerk, to keep a ...