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TOOLEY STREET: TOOLEY FAMILY (US. v. 250). About twelve years ago, when journeying from Penzance to Land's End, I stayed for a few minutes in the church- yard of St. Buryan. My attention was drawn to a tombstone which bears the following inscription :

Our life is but a winter's day : Some only breakfast and away, Others to dinner stay and are full fed, The oldest only sups and goes to bed. Largest is his debt who lingers out the day ; Who goes the soonest has the least to pay.

The above epitaph differs but very slightly from that on the Tooley stone at Brackley. One is evidently copied from the other, but which is the original ? I am sorry I did not take down the name or date on the tombstone. E. MARSTON.

[MR. J. HARRIS STONE sends us the same epitaph from St. Buryan's Churchyard, adding the date 1807. See also 7 S. i. 383, 513 ; ii. 136, 232, 434.1

" MASTER OF GARRAWAY'S " (11 S. iv. 90). As every London antiquary knows, Garra- way's was a celebrated coffee-house in Exchange Alley, which existed for about 216 years, but has now been pulled down. " Master of Garra way's " I take to be equivalent to manager or superintendent of the establishment. A passage in one of the early volumes of Cunningham's edition of but I have unfortunately mislaid my refer- ence. W. S. S.
 * Walpole's Letters 'points to this conclusion,

WOMEN AND TOBACCO (11 S. v. 89, 177, 297). In the diary of Celia Fiennes, pub- lished in 1898 by Field & Tuer under the title of ' Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary,' that lady tells us that at St. Austell in Cornwall (" St. Austins " she calls it) she disliked

" the custome of the country w h is a universal smoaking ; both men, wonien, and children have all their pipes of tobacco in their mouths and soe sit round the tire smoaking, w h was not delightful to me when I went down to talk with my Landlady for information of any matter and customes amongst them."

YGREC.

ENGLISH BARDS AND THE SCOTTISH LAN- GUAGE (11 S, v. 266). The Scotch is hardly more a separate language than is the Tyneside dialect, which it much resembles. Nor need this be wondered at when it is remembered that Northumbria at one time stretched to the Forth in Edwin of Bamburgh's days, I believe. R, B R.

MARY P. JACOBI : MRS. ELLIS (11 S. v. 289). Mrs. Jacobi was for twelve years a dis- pensary physician at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. She was afterward a professor for ten years at the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary, and for three years at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School. She died on 10 June, 1906. Her husband, Dr. Abraham Jacobi, is still living. He was born in Westphalia in 1830. He became identified with the German revolutionary movement, and was kept in detention at Berlin and Cologne during 1851-3 on a charge of high treason. He settled in New York in 1853 as a practis- ing physician, and became one of the leading American authorities on the diseases ' of women and children. H. W. H.

There is an account of her career, with a list of her writings and dates of publication, at p. 394, vol. iii., of Appleton's ' Cyclopaedia of American Biography.' Another notice may be seen in the ninth volume of the ' Encyclopedia Americana.'

Her husband, Abraham Jacobi, was born at Hartun, Westphalia, on 6 May, 1830, and graduated M.D. at Bonn in 1851. In- volved in the German revolutionary move- ment, he was imprisoned for two years. After his release he settled in New York as a practising physician. He held a number of medical appointments in that city, among them that of visiting physician to the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. This fact, added to the evidence furnished by his name, is indicative of Jewish origin. J. F. HOGAN.

Royal Colonial Institute,

Northumberland Avenue.

Mrs. Ellis was Sarah Stickney Ellis (d. 1872), wife of William Ellis. See ' D.N.B.'

WM. H. PEET.

DRAGOON REGIMENTS : BAND (11 S. v. 289). The custom for all regimental bands being dressed in the colour of their facings appears to have been general before the Crimean War period. In 1855, when I joined as a cadet at Sandhurst, our band wore our facings royal blue, with the facings the red of our coats. I am aware that during the Peninsular War the band of the 18th Hussars were dressed in our facings white, with blue facings. Soon after 1855 all bands infantry were dressed in white, but only for a short period. Perhaps MR. GWYTHER will see in the above notes an explanation of the difference he inquires about. HAROLD MALET, Col.