Iw a little American backwoods town is a clock with no machinery except a face, hands and a lever. The lever is connected with a geyser which shoots out an immense column of hot water every 38 seconds, each spout moving the hands forward 38 seconds, Since the spouting never varies the tenth of a second, the clock keeps perfect time. see Jewish Mac A Jew in business changed his name to Mac-person, and flourished exceedingly.
Some time later he made another application, this time to change it to M'Donald.
The official was puzzled, and asked the reason.
"Well" replied the applicant, "F am doing very well, but many people ask what my name was before it was changed. If I alter it to M'Donald, I will be able to reply that it was Macpherson."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.