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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18918, 5 February 1927, Page 13

There are some curious things in the collected papers of the late Lord Curron, but none more curious than some notes on Babu English in a paper on "Petitions and Inscriptions." In one town in India he was met with the sign: "Welcome our future Emperor!" and in another he was offered "A Gal a Day." At Sivasamudram he found this exhortation: "Gloria in excelsjs; Be ever healthy. One of his petitioners, a destitute matron* informed him that "you are the father of my whole family." Another applicant announced that his "means aro circumcised by his large family, consisting of five female women and three masculine." Perhaps the classic of the collection is the obituary notice sent out by a Bombay' opium firm to (heir patrons on the occasion of their father's death: We have the pleasure to inform you that our respected father departed this life "on the 10th mst. His business will be conducted by his beloved sons whose names arc given below.''The opium market is quiet at Malwa, 1500 rupees per chest. 0, death, where is thy stjngt 0, grave, where istby victory! We remain, •to.