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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 314, 23 November 1910, Page 5

Silas H. Arrowson, the American diamond merchant, was travelling in the north of Scotland. On alighting from a train at a little station, he missed his waterproof, and thought he must have left it in the railway carriage. Fortunately the train hud not yet started, so he rushvd bark to the compartment, and putting his head in at the window, cried: "Say, is there a macintosh in here?" "Na, na, mon!" replied a sturdy Scot reprovingly. W'e're all McDonalds!"

Sir Henry Farkes, the G.O.M. of Australia, had a son born to him in his seventy-eighth year. At the same time he had an elder so.i in the New South Wales Parliament along with himself—a gentleman close on (illy years of age, and rejoicing in the name of Varney Farkes. Varney addressed his constituents, and at the close of his speech a solemn-faced elector intimated a deßire to ask a question. The chairman gave the necessary, peiinission, and the meeting exploded in laughter when the question turned out to be, "How'p your littl<3 brother?"