PURE BEVERAGES.--What is cocoa? I write to ask because our grocer says
it has just been legally decided that a mixture containing eighty per
cent. of flour and sago, and the rest genuine nibs, deserves to be
called by that name. Is this really the law? He also tells me that in
the Navy our sailors quite enjoy a cocoa that is half composed of
"foreign fats." If so, is our Admiralty justified in getting its fat
from abroad instead of supporting home industries? And when Jack Tar
asks for cocoa, ought not he to get it? At all events, I have decided
to pay my grocer's next bill with eighty per cent. of French pennies,
and see how he likes _that!_--SOUL OF HONOUR.
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AN ADDITIONAL "LABOUR OF HERCULES."--To fill, for the second time, the
post of Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa, to
which Sir HERCULES ROBINSON is appointed.
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"ALONE! ALONE!"--Very like a wail. It has a sad sound, but not a bad
look when written as "A Loan in London." Specially if it be the
American.
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