... John Elvira, do you love me or is it coy money ? Elvira John, I love you both. Although coal is high, the workingman may comfort himself with the thought that wages is hire. Among the many things, good bad, and indiffer- ent, for which the Eiffel tower is responsible, are the following additIOns to the French vocabulary: Tcureiffelomauia. :> toureiffelesque, and toureiffei^e. King of the ...

... DAILY MARKET FOR NEWPORT. At the meeting of the Newport Town Council, to-day, Mr D. A. Vaughan referred to the succcss of the cheese market, recently inaugurated, and said that at the second weekly gathering more produce was shown and there was an increase in the purchasers, whilst the business proved satisfactory both to seller and buyer. He invited every member of the Corporation to assist ...

... ALLEGED ASSAULT AND ROBBERY AT WENVOE SPORTS, At the Penarth police-courts, to-day, Thomas Smith (on remand) was charged with stealing a watch from the person of Wiliiam Coles, a labourer, living at Wenvoe, at the Wenvoe Sports, j on the 28th of last mouth—The prosecutor ptated that while standing on the sports field the defendant suddeuly attacked him. striking him on the head with his fist. ...

... CARDIFF POLICE-COURT. TO-DAY. (Before the STIPENDIARY.) JUVENILE IHIKVKS.—I ...

... The reason why Robinson Crusoe never went mad on the island is just this: he had no chauce to get into debt. Electricity is life, says the advertiser. Too much of it seems to have the effect of Ayesha'u secoud plunge ai tha pillar of lire. AT THE CLUB.-ri.; Find anything in the paper? G. No, I was just glancing over it to see if anybody I knew had been boru. A meteorological station is to be ...

... Pi,ris might (eays a correspondent telegraphing last uight) have been rinnring this morning with the murder of auotiiei demi mondaine but for the action oi a faithful poodle. Sumo days since a damsel, liviiiR in a certain street not far from the Oifa, received a visit from a good -for-nothing and impocuoious cousin, who represented himself to be on the verge of destitution. Taking pity on her ...

... A bill has been introduced into tho House of Commons by Sir Edmund Lechmere and other members for the purpose of providing for the appointment of a public executiouor, who shall be under tho direct control of the Home Office. The principal clause runs as follows The Secretary of State for the Home Depart- ment shall from time to time appoint an officer to be called the lJUbiic executioner, ...

... ILLEGAL DISTRAINT NEAR NEWPORT. At Newport county court on Friday, Judge Oiven xvas engaged some hours in hearing the particulars of „;in action to recover damages for illegal distraint on the New House Farm, JJettw*, near Newport. The plaintiff was Mr John Hodgkinson, and in larch, 1886, he became tenant under Mr Morgan Attewell, at a rental of L60 per annum, payable in February and August ot ...

... SIR PRYCE JONES ON I ENGLAND'S GLORY. I The Tory candidate for Montgomeryshire, Sir Pryco I'ryce-Jones, m a speech just delivered, remarks:— The game of billiartis is a national game, an old English g;i»ne, and for God's sake do not let us destroy otir old national games ami national institutions, which are tho bulwarks and the main props of tho greatness and glory of Kngiishmt n. ...

... Mr Heury Broadhurst was the victim the othoq afternoou of what may be called the irony of good fellowship. In Consequence of an affection of the eyas and a general derangement of his nervous system, the hon. member for West Nottingham was ordered to give up smoking. He was advised to leave town, aud also to abstaiu from Vooks and writing and business of ail kinds. MrBroadharst informed a ...

... THE LATE MR H. DILLWYN. I The remains of the late Mr H. de la Becha Ddlwyn will be brought to Swausea by the Great Western Railway train which arrives at 4 5 on Thursday afternoon. Deceased's father, the hon. member for Swansea, will journey by tho same train. Tne fuueral, which will be private, will take place on Friday morning, leaving Hendrefoilan at 11,30 for Sketty Church, ...

... A Riotous Crowd, The parachute balloon ascent on Monday evening at l'ou typo ol -roati proved a failure, and Captaiu Speucer feil when about niue feet from The whole structure also collapsed. The lookers-on were intensely annoyed, and a portion of the crowd got that they made in onslaught upon the refreshment rooms. A good deal of the fittings and crockery were destroyed, and the police had ...