distilled from palm juice, hot water, limes, sugar, and spice. This was the ordinary beverage of the poorer Englishmen in India for many a year. Returning Anglo Indians brought the receipt with them, and it soon became _acclimatized, especially in Scotland. Burns refers to it in his "Holy Fair'—The lads and lasses, blithely bent To mind baith saul and body.
Sit round the table yeel content, And steer about the toddy. clined to support. Then one of the golf officials intervened. "All I Know is that Taylor is a nice fellow," he said. "We engaged him to play at a fixed fee. He; came, but the day was wet, and golf was impossible. When we offered him payment, all he would take was his bare travelling expenses."" Whereupon Sir Henry turned to his compatriot and said, "'T'm afraid that quite upsets our sANTUS AND AN ABERDEEN ACCENT.
Mr. Duncan Campbell, in his new book, "In the Heart of Bantuland," says that in 1903 he lived for two months with the veteran missionary Dr. Laws in Nyassaland. The staff was Scottish, mostly Aberdonian, and what struck him was that natives who came from many different tribes to receive their education adopted a Scots accent in speaking their own dialects."
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J. H. Taylor, the veteran golfer, who is going to the States shortly with Alee Herd as playing partner, was recently telling how—once, when he had been engaged in a mutch at Biarritz, the late Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman gave a lunch, at which a discussion arose to Taylor's ni ality. A Scottish relative of Sir Henry contended that. Taylor was a Scot, a claim which the politician was in-
Mr. 1, Peel, of the Customs, who has been acting Deputy Commissioner for some two years past in Tientsin, has been transferred to Shasi in charge, on promotion, Tae " Sinwanpao" declares that Dr. W. W. Yen has proposed to the Diplomatic Corps that the Shanghai Mixed Court be returned to the Chinese Government for administration, but, it, adds, Sir Beilby Alston, H. M. Minister, has declined to disc this question at the present time. This probably means no more than that the British Minister in Peking is a
sent time, because of the Salt favourite whipping-post at \the Gabelle Inspectorate affair. But -he present uncertain state of government in Peking is hardly con-due ive to discussing the Mixed Court's status.
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