... Tokes and Jokers. The farce-seeing man is not necessarily far.-ee. ing. An elevated road-the one that leads from the tavern. Talk about the thermometer haying been low; why, it has positively been vulgar. The only thing that a miser ever loses is his ap-l petite-the cost of a meal snares it away. The man who lives on little is worshipped as an economist, while he who lives on nothing is des- ...

... ON Saturday last we paid a further visit to Plas Mawr, Conway, the home of the Royal Cambrian Academy, and were glad to learn that the attendance since the opening at Whit- suntide has been very much better than any previous year. The exhibition has been a great success from every point of view, and will close at the end of October. The academy has now been established six years, and there is ...

... HORT1OTLTURAL SEEOW AT - GARRWBN. The fourth untaibto the Public f11, i Gaerwsan, t ilae District Flo wer, Garden, ana EVarmj Produe 8tioiety took place on Saturdayand proved nimost aooeueful. This yenr the president of the soowty was Sir Chandos Reade, Bart. Mr J. Mfssey 3 Williatas, Garneddgooh, was the ohairman of the . Executive Committee, the vice-ohairtman being Mr J P . Lewis Jones, ...

... Li~terary Notices. J. I. is a nmonthly magazine admirably edited by Mrd Stephen Meozies. Toe number before us is beaut~iflly illustrated, and the letter -press tboroughly sound. Practical liants on Gas Co0nsumption is the title of a. pamphlet by Mr Joseph Shasw, Albert Works, Lockwood, Hudderefield. showing the advantages to be derived from al proper application and use of gas, and how to ...

... ST. A.SAPH. TUE ANNUAL FLOWVER SHIOW. t This annual event for the encouragemnent of B cottage horticulture was held in tbe National School a, on Friday last, when the room was nicely decorated o; with flowvers and plants lent by tbe Llord B3ishop, ts the Very Rev, the Dean, Major Hutton, Mr E. B. J Lnuxmore, Colonel Hore, and M~r Hulsby. The a display and arrangements wvere successfully ...

... On Tnesday. the Lord-lientlenant of Denbighsb ire, Colonel Cor'nwallis West, in the presence of a large assembly of the Iocal gentry, opened the frat art and industrial exhibition, which' wae the outcome of an idea originating witl Miss Msinwarinfi- to- assist and encourage the local manufacturers, artists, carvers, etc. That the idea wast readily taken up, it is only necessary to state that ...

... BIJABON. HORT1CIO1ULTOAL AND INDUSTRKIAL ESXUIrllow AT WTYNN- STAT PARN.--Oa Monday ihe annual exhibition in connection with the Ruabon and Rhos E3:orticnl- tural and Industrial Society was held in a series of tents in W~yhostay Park, Rnabon, kindly placed at the dispnsal of the commnittee by Sir Watkin Williams Wynn. Badt. The weather was wretnbed, heavy showers of rain falling during a ...

... A NGTJBSEY HORTIOULjTTIRAL S HS O W; The teuth annual exhibition of t~he Anglemey Horticultural Society, which w.as held at Lilangeful on Wednesday and Thnursday, was an attractive one, and the general opiuion prevailed thlat the quality of the exhibits w as folly up to the standard of previous yearas whilet the number Was well mainitained. M\r J S Laurie was thteohairm an of the Working C ...

... Jokes and. Jokers. A Pleasant Dinner Cotnpanion.-Miss Ethel: Who was the old gentleman. who took you in to ?? Clara : An old bachelor friernd of papa's; He was ?? Ethel : I shouldn't think you would finl a bald-headed old baohelor a very delightful oompanion at dinner.- Miss Claia: Oh, but he was; he attracted all the flies. Musio in the Night.-alies Clara (retired for the night): Ethel, wake ...