... FACTS AND FANCIES. Brown I'd join the church if it wasn't so full of hypocrites.—Towne That needn't deter you. There's always room for one more. I understand Susie Smartweed was dropped from the hospital service in disgrace.' Yes. She used the chief surgeon's best knife to sharpen her lead pencil, Little Mollie Does your pa have Saturday half holidays daring the summer ?--Little Elsie My plio ...

... UNFAVOURABLE OUTLOOK. No Union with Barry. The position and prospect'! of the Vale of Glamorgan Railway Company have formed the subject of some little discussion lately, chiefly owing to an apparent attempt to work up the market price of the security-an attempt which has provoked inquiry as to why any working up should be thought needful. The attempt has failed it has been made manifest that ...

... I Sir Henry Fowler on the Situation. Last night Sir Henry Fowler presided over the Midland Counties house dinner held at the National Liberal Club, among the guests being Earl Carrington, Sir W. B. Foster, M.P., Sir W. H. Wills, M.P., Mr F. A. Charming, M.P., Mr Pirie, M.P., Mr R. Y. Price, M.P., Sir Robert Head, Sir Clarence Smith, Sir T. Wemyss Reid, and Mr Donald Murray. The following are ...

... Among the applicants for relief to the S, Alban's Guardians yesterday was the widvjw ox a Crimean vsteran who recently died in indigent circumstances. The woman acted as nurse throughout the Crimean campaign,and her father was for 25 years in the English coastguard service. The board granted relief the chairman ana ssveral members expressing the opinion that it was scandalous for the country ...

... Fire in Hungary. 200 HOUSES DESTROYED. Fourteen Persons Burned to Death. VIENNA, Friday.—A despatch to the Nene Freit Press states that a great fire has broken out at Nagylodrog, in Hungary. Two hundred houses have been destroyed, and 14 persons burned to Neics. ...

... SOUTH WALES COAL TRADE. THE ENGINII:Ili)EN'S ASSOr-'IATION. It will be recollected that the negotiations be- tween the Monmouthshire and South Wales Coal- owners' Association and the South Wales Col- lieries Enginemen's Association for the adop- tion of the agieement proposed by the former fell through, the engine- men rejecting the proposed agreement, more particularly on account of Clause 2, ...

... A FIREMAN'S DIVERSION IN THE TRAIN I John Nelson, a. Sweedish fireman, was pa.id off at Cardiff, then liquored up not wisely bnt too well, and afterwards took train for Newport, and when entering the station at the TJskside borough he smashed three of the windows in the compart- ment in which he was travelling, doing damage to the extent of -11 2s 6d. Nelson, who had been lodged in the cells, ...

... A QUEEN WITHOUT COUNTRY. The Queen of Hanover;who reached her eighty first birthday recently, is the oldest Queen in Europe, uoL excepting our own Queen, but like several other Qneens in exile she possesses a title only, and has no position as a ruling Sovereign. Although the Queen of Hanover has now been expatriated for 33 years, she never permits her- self to speak in an unkind or harsh ...

... The wife of a labourer named Charles Reader asked, at Stratford on Saturday, for an order for maintenance on tbe.grl)und of her husband's i cruelty and desertion. Mrs Reader, after giving-her evidenceirepeatedly interrupted her husband when he was entering upon his defence, and at last Mr Burnett Tabrutn (the chairman) exclaimed, Oh, do hold your tongue-il,you,oan. I know it is a hard thing. ...

... DISTURBANCE AT PENYDARREN. When P.C. Woods was on his beat in Peny- darren on the 3rd inst. he was disturbed by the tippearance of a large crowd, some scores of men sitting on the walls. He then saw twwo men, George Williams and Cornelius Hart, fighting. The latter appeared to-day at the Merthyr Police Coatr and admitted there had been a disturbance, bat drew the line at fighting. Defendant* ...

... POLICE SUPERINTENDENT SHOT A Fatal Accident. A Lancaster correspondent telegraphs :—Police superintendent Haynes, of Ingleton, and Police- superintendent Blanchard, of Settle, were out shooting at Ingleton yesterday afternoon when Mr Haynes's gun was accidentally discharged. The shot lodged in Mr Blanchard'? groin, and he died this morning. Thr deceased was aged about 40, and was a married man. ...

... RHONDDA ROYAL GLEE SOCIETY Mr Tom Stephens, conductor of 'the Rbondda Royal Male Voice Party, will set out again shortly with 30 select members of the society for another tour through various counties in the North of EDgland Last Sunday Mr Stephens and his party returned to the liliondda alter a few weeks' engagements in Manchester, Liverpool, Chester, VVrexharn, and other large towns in ...