HAPPY LOTS FOR HAPPY SCOTS.--The _Glasgow Herald_ has been making fun of
the Scotch--no, we mean the Scottish--no, we don't, we mean the
Scots--Professor. Here is its description of him:--
He, and he alone, can lead a perfectly groomed life. He has an
income of between £600 and £2,000 a year. At the outside his
work, after he has fairly got settled down to it, means four
hours a day for five days a week during six months of the
year.... The modern Scotch professor in fact is, or ought to be,
that "model man of the world," of whom all of us poor slaves of
business and convention stand secretly in awe.
On the St. Andrews golf links he is to be seen on great occasions
"living up to his moustaches and knickerbockers." He has his London
club, mingles in the highest literary coteries, and is always talking
about "charming girls." Evidently the professorial chair in a Norbritish
University is a very comfortable kind of arm-chair, and our "Arts
Professor" a professor--and practiser, too--of various useful arts.
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WAIL FROM THE WEST.--They are trying at Bristol to move the G. W. R. to
give better train facilities between Bristol, Salisbury, Southampton,
and Portsmouth; and the Chamber of Commerce has sent in a memorial
asking for a "complete remodelling of the service between such important
centres of commercial activity," and complaining of the "unsatisfactory
service of trains on other parts of your system," particularly on the
Devizes, Marlborough, and Reading branch. Why, suggests the Chamber, not
run three fast trains a day up and down _viâ_ the new Holt Junction,
"instead of all trains going into Trowbridge, and waiting nearly an
hour." Why, indeed? West-of-Englanders seem to think that "your system"
needs strengthening, and so they are supplying a little bark as a tonic,
for "local application" only.
To this Chamber of Commerce the fault of the Co.
Is running too seldom, and moving too slow.
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EVIDENT, AS APPROPRIATE SITE.--"_Eely_ Place" for a _Conger_-regational
Chapel.
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