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point, of the institution, was of the members of Parliament for Wales, by highest order. While at this hospital he enjoyed all the liberties possible, which was appreciated by him.-"Spring Green (Wis.) News."

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"Cranogwen" was born near Llangranog in 1839, her father being the captain of a small coasting ship. She was mistress of Pontgarreg Elementary School from 1859 to 1865. Many of those taught at the school during this period now hold very important posts in England and Wales, and some in the colonies. "Cranogwen" has competed much in her time. In 1865 she was successful on "The Wedding Ring" at the National Eisteddfod at Aberystwyth. In 1872 she took the chair prize at Aberayron Eisteddfod for a poem on "The Wreck of the Northfleet." She edited "Y Frythones" from 1879 to 1889. Early in the latter year, after her return from her second visit to America, she had a serious accident through the upsetting of a car. Her first visit to America was a prolonged, one, dating from April, 1869, to November, 1870. She wrote much to the American periodicals and to those at home during her sojourn in the States. After returning she lectured on "The Other Side of the Atlantic," and "The Other Side of the Rocky Mountains." She more than once adjudicated at the National Eisteddfod, and often at local Eisteddfodau. She was about the first to introduce the tonic sol-fa method of singing to the district around Llangranog. She als established the first Band of Hope in that part of the country. She has never publicly advocated woman's claims or rights. A memorial was presented to to the First Lord of the Treasury some two years ago praying that an annuity be granted to her. The reply of the First Lord was to the effect that Treasury would contribute should a national testimonial be started. The memorial was signed by most of the

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dignitaries of the Established Church, and by Nonconformist ministers, proprietors of newspapers, principals of colleges, &c.

The first man from Glamorganshire known to fall in the South African war is Private Adams, from Briton Ferry. His parents are an aged couple, and they feel the blow very keenly. Adams was a very respectable young man, and had a large circle of friends.

Sir Josiah Rees, Governor of the Bermudas, who recently died, was of Welsh extraction, and was himself conversant with his mother tongue. He was the son of Dr. Thomas Rees, author of "The Beauties of Wales" and other works and the grandson of the Rev. Josiah Rees, of the Unitarian Church at Gellionen, near Pontardawe, projector of the first Welsh magazine in the year 1770.

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New Quay, in Cardiganshire, represented by two brothers in Mafeking, and also by two brothers in Kimberley. E. Arthur Davies was a draper's clerk in Johannesburg, and when the war broke out he went over to Mafeking, where his brother managed a chemist shop. John Evans opened business at Cape Town, but moved up to Kimberley, where he had a flourishing shop. His half-brother, Daniel, is a joiner, and went out and joined his brother some three years ago.

Mr. Justice Bucknill, writing to Mr. H. Lloyd Carter, the under sheriff of Carnarvonshire, thanked him for the book entitled "Highways and Byeways of North Wales, and said that the volume reminded him that the best way to win the confidence of the Welsh people was to learn their language. His Lordship has already gone through course of Welsh, and he finishes his letter by saying, "and I am going to try my hand at it again." Will the Ridleys and the Darlings take the hint?

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was not long before he formed a copartnership in the local agency business, with a gentleman named Col. J. McC. Bell, under the title of Jones & Bell. While holding his interest in the firm, he accepted a position as special agent for the Orient Insurance Co., and traveled extensively in several States and getting more popular all the time. Before long the "giant London Company," North British & Mercantile Insurance Co. offered him a larger field, which was accepted and filled by Mr. Jones. About eleven years ago the last named company opened a branch office at Milwaukee, Wis., appointing Mr. Jones its resident secretary for the States of Wisconsin and Michigan. A year or two he stayed here before he was offered a very important position with the Northwestern National Insurance Company as second vice president, when last June he accepted the presidency of the Milwaukee Mechanics and Milwaukee Fire Insurance Cos.

Mr. Jones' career has been very suc cessful and honorable from the beginning and is very well acquainted with every step in the ladder of his profession, working hard from the bottom to the highest rank, but we expect to hear more yet from him in other directions.

He has a large and, happy family, but while the children are not able to speak the Welsh language, the father and mother are most proud of it. Mrs. Jones is also from the old village of Llanerchymedd. Both have visited their native land several times, since here. J. E. J.

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ing year he took the Mus. Bac. by examination. He became B. A. in 1870 and M. A. in 1874, while he has since become D. C. L. of Oxford and Hon. Fellow of Exeter College and is a Mus. Doc. honoris causa of Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin.

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A notable task has just been completed by the Rev. David Picton who labored for many years as a missionary, under the auspices of the London Missionary Society, in the Lake District of Central Africa, and who, on account of the breakdown of his health, has been compelled to take temporary rest, residing at Tenby. He has just finished, translating the New Testament into Kimambwe, the language of certain tribes in Central Africa. This never been done before. Mr. Jones was only recently pronounced out of danger after a dangerous fever. He was given up by his doctor for twenty-five days. but at the end of that period he showed signs of convalescence.

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Like many another prominent Welsh divine, the Rev. Thomas Roberts, of Bethesda, rose from the ranks. Born at Denbigh in very humble circumstances, his early life was spent as a ploughboy on a neighboring farm. Later he was apprenticed to the printing trade with the late Mr. Thomas Gee, of Denbigh, and whilst working at the "case" evinced considerable ability as a writer. He contributed many articles to "Y Gwyddoniadur Cymreig," that monumental work which has been described, and aptly, too, as the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" of the Welsh language, and subsequently became tached to the literary staff at the "Baner" Office, whence he left for Bala College, to enter upon a ministerial course for the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Connexion, of which he became eventually so bright an ornament.

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Montgomeryshire is overrun with Joneses. At the Llanfyllin Court the other day all the magistrates and the policemen were Joneses, and so was the defendant. He called it being "tried by his peers."

Kenfig Corporation is the baby corporation of the kingdom, and just as a baby has no teeth so the Kenfig corporation has no mayor, no council, no town clerk, no magistrate, no policecourt, no policeman, and no steam roller. Happy Kenfig.

President Kruger is a determined Calvinist, and when the singing of hymns was first introduced into his chapel there arose a greater row than that which took place over the introduction of the organ into Bethany Chapel, Cardiff, some years ago. President Kruger looks on hymns as a dangerous innovation; but he dislikes the lyddite shell even more.

If we only look at the Congregational figures, Radnorshire cares less about missionary work than any other country in Wales. Pembrokeshire gives an average of 1s. 114d. per member, and Breconshire 1s. 6d., Monmouthshire 1s. 44d., Cardiganshire 1s. 44 d., Carmarthenshire 10%d., and Glamorgan a farthing less, but Radnorshire gives not a sou more than twopence.

A Welsh Reservist who has gone to the front sent this back to a friend: Loud beats fy nghalon, my heart,

I'm bound now for Afric's wild shore; Dear anwyl! 'twas hard to part;

I'll soon be in touch with the Boer; Then, whilst the shells whiz around, I'll fight-diolch y nef that I can, And if I am laid 'neath the ground, I die as would every Welsh man.

William Leah, of Salford, contributes to the "Red Letter" an old story of North Wales. A tourist was spending his holidays there, and one day, walking along a road, was overtaken a horse and cart. by a man driving With characteristic hospitality the Welshman invited him to riue. After some conversation the driver asked, "Can you tell me the right time, sir?" at the same time pulling out one of those old-time watches commonly known as "turnips." After consulting his own watch the tourist replied, "It is three o'clock exactly." The Welshman took out a watch key and set the hands at twelve. "I said three o'clock-not twelve." explained his companion, thinking he had been misunderstood. "Oh! it's all right," was the reply; "she'll soon make that bit up, sirshe's a beggar to go!" And he whipped up the pony.

A writer in the "Cornhill Magazine" this month tells a charming story of Jenny Lind, who, as her friends well knew, was peculiarly sensitive to the beauty of Nature. She was once staying in Anglesey, and was taken by her host to the top of a hill behind the house to see the view of the Welsh mountains across the Menai Straits. Jenny Lind, so it is described, gazed

in silence for some minutes on the lovely scene, transfigured by the soft light of the setting sun, and then, sud*denly stepping on to a slab of rock that cropped up out of the short green turf, began to sing the "Marvelous Work" from Haydn's "Creation." The matchless voice rose in an ecstacy of music like a living thing into the heavens, and the rapt expression of her face remained indelibly impressed upon her hearers.

It is a noteworthy fact that the first graduate by examination in the University of Wales, and the first Master of Arts have been women. Again, the second honorary graduate and the second fellow have been women. Moreover, unless we are mistaken, one of the first Gilchrist Studentships granted by the Court has been given to a woman. "Six honorary degrees have been conferred by the University, and of the recipients two are dead-Mr. Gladstone and Lord Herschell. The surviving honorary graduates are the Prince of Wales and Earl Spencer, LL. D., the Princess of Wales, Mus. Doc., and Principal T. C. Edwards, D. D.

Should present proposals be carried 'out only one Liberal member in North Wales will be deprived of a seat by the new Redistribution of Seats Bill. The intention of the government appears to be to take away the member from all constituencies numbering less than 5,000 electors, and to add a member to all constituencies with over 15,000 electors which have now only one member. Flint and Montgomery Boroughs are the only constituencies in North Wales which will be thus affected, and Mr. Herbert Lewis, the only Liberal member that will be deprived of a seat. view of the Redistribution Bill it was stated, some time ago that Mr. D. Lloyd George would be offered a safe English seat; but it now seems highly im

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probable that the Carnarvon Boroughs will be interfered with.

In an interesting biography of Mr. John Thomas ("Pencerdd Gwalia") in the "Musical Times" it is mentioned, among other things, that the harp was formerly held in such honor in Wales that a slave might not practice it. To be able to play upon it was an indispensable qualification of a gentleman, and a harp could not be seized for debt! Mr. John Thomas, the harpist of his day and generation, was born in 1826, at Bridgend. The beginning of his upward fame took place at Abergavenny, where, when eleven years of age, he won the chief prize. The "Pencerdd" was first introduced to Queen Victoria through the introduction of the Prussian Court, where he had previously had the honor of weing received. Not the least interesting portion of the biography is the testimony of Hector Berlioz, who, writing in the "Journal des Debats" on March 2, 1854, said, at the conclusion of an altogether remarkable tribute:-"Mr. Thomas' playing charmed, fascinated, magnetised me. If I were rich, how I should enjoy the luxury of having such a virtuoso to soothe my sad hours and make me forget the realities of life!"

Much as has been written concerning the history of Nonconformity in Wales public interest in the subject is far from exhausted. The great work of the Rev. J. Morgan Jones (Cardiff) and Mr. W. Morgan, J. P. (Pant), on "The Methodist Fathers" enjoyed a phenomenal sale, and the controversy which followed as to the rival claims of Methodists and Independents is still fresh in the memory of our readers. Mr. Beriah Evans took up the cudgels on behalf of the Congregational body, and as a sequel he is now about to publish a story of Welsh Dissent, which, it is claimed, will contain materials

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