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Globe, Volume II, Issue 141, 14 November 1874, Page 3

The following announcement has just issued from Downing street:—“ Lord Carnarvon has offered the Governorship of the Mauritius to Sir R. Phayre, whose distinguished services in British Burmah are familiar to all who are acquainted with the history of our recent progress in the East. It is also announced that Governor George Berkeley, of the West African Settlements, who arrived in Liverpool on Monday by the mail steamer Loanda, has been appointed Governor of Western Australia, to succeed Mr F. A. Weld.” A farmer’s son, who had bgen some time at the university, coming home to visit his parents, and being one night at supper with the old folks on a couple of fowls, he told them that, by the rules of logic and arithmetic, he could prove these two fowls to be three. “ Well, let us hear,” said the old man. “Why this,” said the scholar, “is one, and this,” continued lie, “is two; two and one, you know, make three. “ Since ye hae made it out sac weel,” answered the old man, “ your mother shall hae the first fowl, I’ll hae the second, and the third you may keep to yoursol.”