Show THAT WAS AMUSING humorous nova unintentionally very gravely misled serious minded glasgow newspaper it bf macgregor Mn IkIn cGregor told the following story at a luncheon of the scottish curlers in new glasgow A new glasgow shipping firm was having built a steamship on the clyde and gave it the name ofAl of lemac the oddity of the name aroused considerable the nova captain was asked the berh derivation atlon of the name good gond the captain replied that biffle was for the irish land and mac for the scottish next nest day the captain was astonished to find this explanation of the name featured is 1 the herald ile he sent tor for the reporter and explained that was the tha name of a tribe of indians la ha nova scotia to his further astonishment the following day the herald maried 1 I a correction reading as follo follows we were mere slightly incorrect in giving the derivation of the name IMIL mac in yesterdays issue we now novy learn that the ship Is called after a tribe of wild indians indiana in nova scotia who are halt half irish and halt half scotch |