... a THEIR UTILITY IN THE BODY POLITIC. THE EXTRAVAGANT PURSUIT :5OF MUSIOe [BY -A PHILISTINE.] e Stoic has dealt with the inconsequential is vapourings of Zetus. Hence it is unneces- sary for me to point out how the latter, in f your issue of Thursday, strung together his e imaginings concerning sundry nations, and ;, rested his case upon such alleged ) facts. But d Stoic himself dropped ...

... ! i : - I THE LUCKY 'STAR AT THE THEATRE ROYAL. [BY ZETUS.] A As there is, probably~no science, occult or posi- tive, more fascinating or regularly disappoint- ing than fortune-telilig. ?? Lucky Star is bound to appeal to cverybody. Coming as it does with the credentials of the Savoy.Theatre. Sec there necessarily comes also the faith enges- eh dered by the test of i long line of ...

... HIGH PRICES FOR CATTLE. At the Birmingham Shorthorn Show on Thurs- dlay the sale oi bulls was proceeded with, and senoe exceptional urices vsere obtained. 'The bidding was spirited, South Alinerican [did oilier, foreign buyers being prominent in Atheir pur- cllases. Estimata, the first prize bull, twenty months old. belonging to Mr. IV, Atkinson, pf, Milthorpe, Westmorsland, was sold for ...

... ,p6lEBS AND C INAJ| ?? DIUTLSH BLUE BOOK PUB- LISHED. PgOBABLE CoNCESSION OF ITALYSi DEMAND. eook on sifuirs in China wasV issued the Foreign Officoe on Tuesday evening, ] w° with the events of neiarly a year a , April 1, 1898, to February 3, 1899. The earlier dispatches deal with the ?? of e Arthur aind T'alionwen to Russia. os April IS Sir Claude MacDonald telegraphed al galisbury the terms ...

... AN INTERESTING EXHIBITION AT CARDIPIF. The second annual exhibition and soiree of the Cardiff Y.M.C.A. Camera Club took place on Wednesday evening, Dr. De Vere Hunt prev siding. . The exhibition included rpecimens of ework done by the membe*s and others, photo- 0graphic apparatus and materials,.a mutoscope, tand a .hromskop. The last-mentioned, which d was shown by Mr. Jesse Williams, of Queen ...

... PRINCIPIAL VIRIAMU111. JONEN'S SUGGESTIONS. TiEI.E PICiE OF 31ETROPOLITAN E A-MBITIONS. c it turns out that the ?? relating to the Cardiff Museum1l with which Princil'al Viriamn Jones startled thoe Majority of his Cynmmrodorion audienee onl WedneldaY night C when ho declared the share wlhieh his colloge t cxpects to recoive as its portion of the pirite 1 to be paid by Cardifi for the ...

... WALES AND ITE -PPARIS SX121BIO1t OUTLINE OF THE, PRHPiliS]D WELSH SCHEME. The proposal to arrange for a !.Velsh section ab ithe forthcoming Paris Exhibition hats noW takeqn definite shane. At a meeting recently held in the I Education Department. Library, Whitehall, the fol- _ lowiig member-s were present, viz. :-Dr. Isambard t O-en (in the chair), the Hon. G. T. Kenyon, the Hon. V. N. Bruce, ...

... MR. SALNTSBURY'S VERSION AT THE e ea e ' GRAND THEATRE. Sa is There is a strange air of fatality about plays 6 like Three Musketeers, that is, plays or that ?? been taken out of great books. For Al 4 Dumass novel is a great work, so foil of plot, i Iand counterplot, tragedy and comedy, bustle tndnd 'the grotesque. Perhaps the greatest 1 featare of the book is bustle. The characters Ii to ...

... M1R. PARKER HAGARTY'SI 'EXHIBITION. A. . Qice pcort Mr. Park'er Hagarty, RCA., h;ats tured Ili$ studib intD an eshibition talon, aud l t 'once. mpe lie gives his 'andial jrivrcte show at C Cardiff. -Thix tinme. in point. pf nulmbers. he o' has gone one better than in prervion. yearsk of andhaings no less thlan >3pictures., Fresh home. r fromthe lake- and fronm Bnrn'hnlmBeethes;! 'het as gives ...

... HEATRE ROYAL, CARDIFF. Very rarely indeed haye such shrieks of laughter' been heard in the Royal as those. which received the eccentricities of The J.P. on Monday night-and that is saying a great deal, for the Royal playgoers' memory runs back over many and many a hilarious night. The J.P. is one of those farcical comedies for which the Strand Theatre, London, has become e celebrated. ...

... IN1TER.E-ST~ING -EXHIBITION:q -AT X CARDIFF. Cc O onl An exhibition interesting to all people of a, onti home-loving- disposition was 'opened at the v. 1k Park-hall1, Cardiff. oil Wednesday afternoon. buri The hall had been wall -filled with atiumber -pacc of stalls and stands, upon which all sorts of -WCC things need in the household heel been ranged of t for show. 'The opening ceremony was ...

... 1TIEWVS OF BOOKS. } LATEST WORKS PUBLISHED. 'Line ?? of the Miciii. by Felix Gras. 'Win eineRadhs. O21. Bedford-street, London, W.C. Prc.uinemt'a~un nhas mwiade arrangements to ancew series of copyright novels by :P~~jownauhor, t the nioderate price of eachnet. ?? sfit of the series, is The' ef thle Midi by Felix Gras, translated ..3the Proeal of Catherine A, Janvier. 13 sisry is founded on ...