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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 35, 30 August 1890, Page 3

An Absent-minded Senator.—lt is said that the absence of mind of a certain American senator is such that if it could be cut into strips and pasted together end for end it would reach twice around illimitable space and tie a double bow knot. Ont on the slope they used to tell a story of how he was hastening one morning to catch a train, when he suddenly stopped and said to his companion, 'There, by thunder, I’ve left my watch under my pillow.' * Let’s go back and get it,* said his friend. ‘Hold on,’reSlied the Senator, * I don’t believe we’ll have time ; ’ and he rew the watch from his pocket, looked carefully at the face of it, counted the moments, and added, * No, we won’t have time,* and pressed on toward the station, saying, * Oh, well, I guess I can get along for a day without a watch.’