SIR ISAAC FAILED IN LOVE.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 21 August 1912, Page 7

SIR ISAAC FAILED IN LOVE.

Sir Isaac Newton, it is said, was once persuaded by his friends to entertain some thoughts of marriage, and a suitable young woman was selected by them.

So considerably engaged with celestial bodies at the time, he liked the terrestrial luminary very well, but, in the honest way of courtship, he informed the girl that he had many habits.

Complaisant and good-natured, as most young women are under the circumstances, the girl promised to be indulgent; and so pleased was Sir Isaac with her kind-heartedness that he resorted to his favourite pipe imme-' diately. Enjoying it whiff after whiff, he entered into conversation with his sweet partner, held her hand in his squeezing it occasionally as a lover ought. At length he sank into one' of his abstracted reveries, and whether he was thinking, of the apple and its fall, or squaring the circle, or of what else, has never been determined, but his pipe becoming dull, he, in' the absence of his mood, unwittingly raised the yielding damsel's fing-er as a tobacco stopper. Her screams aroused him, and, looking innocently in her face, tfie philosopher exclaimed:

"Ah, my dear madam, I beg your pardon, I see it won't do. I see. I see that I am doomed to remain a ba^elor."