MOST UNPRACTICAL MAN.
MATHEMATICIAN'S WORRIES. M. Painlevc, President of the French Chamber of Deputies, is one of the greatest mathematicians in Europe. Ho is also one of Hip most unpractical of men. Recently he gave an official reception chefc lui. He invited so many people to his home that the house could only hold half of them; the Mother half found themselves out in the cold rain. On another day, M. Painleve was to have been a principal guest at a dinner in honour of the King and Queen of the Belgians given by the French Ambassador in Brussels. But, forgetting that time and train wait for no man, M. Painleve arrived at the Garo du Nord late enough to miss the Brussels express. He then decided to travel by motor: but. he miscalculated the activities of General February—a very fornydable enemy of a greater' man than M. Painlove—even Napoleon I. General February so hampered M. Painleve's progress that at Soissons bis car was axle-deep in snow, and Brussels still ! 160 "miles away. M. Painleve—always , the diplsmat "and mathematician —telegraphed excuses to the Royal party.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18996, 18 April 1925, Page 2 (Supplement)
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