At a Press Club dinner, the talk, j of course, drifted on to the subject} of Scotsmen, and one of the} journalists gave this description of a north countryman,—'He is not remarkable for his generosity, nor is he extraordinarily stingy, but is what one might call the Happy Mean."
The death has taken place of Alexander Crum Brown, FR. M.D., LL.D., Professor Emeritus of Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh. A man of wide accom-pushments and of remarkable catholicity in his intellectual interests and pursuits, he was an authority on zoology, botany, geometry, and mathematics. was said of him that so varied and so solid were his attainments that there was hardly a Chair in the University he could not have graced with distinction. It was currently believed that there was no language under the sun which he did not understand and few which he could not speak. Once he was selected as the only available person with the requisite knowledge to examine a candidate from the Far East in his native language—Chinese or Japanese—and so efficiently did he conduct the examination that the candidate, failed to pass!
FEMALE GOLF TALENT, The difference between first-class men and women golfers has generally been reckoned at a Ralf, and in the team matches held in the South on that basis the men have in the main found the allowance sufficient. So it proved in the first trial between sides of Scottish golfers the other day at St. Andrews. The men: won the match, but the ladies are entitle ed to a lot of credit. Out of the ''possible'' of 15 points the sterner sex were on the fina] count only three to the good. The ladies have every reason to be pleased with the balance sheet. The meetings between the leaders of the two forces were of speci, interest, for they afforded a novel opportunity for comparison, and the fact that Mrs. Watson, the Champion, beat Mr. W. B. Torrance, Miss Jean M'Culloch Halved her match with Mr. G. C. Manford, and Miss Lena Scroggie Tost only by one hole to Mr. Willis Mackenzie, speaks well for the display given by the ladies. As a matter fact, Miss M'Culloch missed a vital short putt late in the match or her. result might have een in her favour. The match indeed was rather a revelation to the men of the standard of golf the ladies- can produce, Messrs Torrance, Mackenzie and Manford felt that' they were playing very steady golf—Mr. Torrance was round in 75—and yet, as the result! shows, they were struggling all the! way. Mrs, Watson went round thei Old Course in 81, which was excellent going against which to concede nine strokes.
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