A SLIGHT MISTAKE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5997, 5 February 1881, Page 7

A SLIGHT MISTAKE.

Those curious p'eraonal resemblances which are not uccommon have given rise to the popular belief that every man has his double somewhere in the world. It appears that toe double of an eminent professor of physiology at the Berlin University is a hairdresser, "SS^^gK- T fi ~3HS»i£«!£ai- iu the immediate OF that institution, and who, of. liislikeness to the leai'ned doctor, .SlKfefully copies the latte/ in dress, bearing, Tand demeanour. A few days ago the pro- ~ lessor was walking homeward from his lecture room, when a gentleman entirely unknown to him stopped him in the street, saying, "Folilow me to my house. I want you to cut my bair." The amiable professor, one of whose principles in life it lias always been never to 'withhold from a fellow-erenture any service that it might be within his power to render, meekly accompanied the stranger home, and there addressed himself to the task thus imperatively prescribed to him. Lacking profes- j sional scissors, he jiicked up a pair of shears, used for cutting paper, from a writing-table M the dressing-room to which he was conducted, and with this implement proceeded - most conscientiously to cut his victim's hair down to the very roots. When lie had cleared about half tiie skull, he accidentally tuck the point of his shears into the scalp of "is patient, who, springing to his feet in iSWat pain and wrath, exclaimed, "Can't you take care what you are about? Do you call J yourself a haireutter.?" "Aliaircuttor!" returned the astonished sage. "Certainly not. lam only professor 8., very much, at service, as you perceive J" " ;i