A Logical Lecturer.
A remarkable argument is said to have been once made by a German who was lecturing in London, his chief theme beiDg the great glory of mechanics as a science. " I tell you what," announced this learned gentleman to an interested and amused audience, " de ting dat is made is mere superior as dc maker. I shall show you how it is mit some tings : ■*' Subbose, now, dat I make de round wheel on de coach. Ver' well ; dat wheel roll 500 mile ! An' me — I cannot roll one single leotle mile ! " Subhose I am de gooper, an' I make de big barrel for to hold de beer. Dat barrel he hold gal'on an' gallon. An' me — I cannot hold more as two, tree quart, niein friends — not more as two, tree quart ! " His audience evidently saw the point, to judge from their applause, and the lecturer, beaming with satisfaction at his own powers of argument, proceeded to other branches of the subject. __
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Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 52
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