| Show THAT WAS AMUSING humorous nova ally vry gravely misled serious minded glasgow newspaper R M macgregor told the following story at a luncheon ot 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 of the oddity of the name aroused considerable curiosity the nova captain I 1 was asked the derivation of the name I 1 good the captain replied that ilac was for the irish and mac for the scottish next day the captain ca etain was astonished to find this explanation of the name featured in ia the herald he sent for the reporter and explained that was wag tb taft name ot of a tribe of indians in nova scotia to his further astonishment the following ilay flay the herald carried a correction reading as follows we were slightly incorrect in giving the derivation of the nam mae in yesterdays issue we bont noir learn that the ship Is called after a tribe of wild indians in nova scotia who ore are halt half irish and halt half scotch |
