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Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1831, 5 August 1895, Page 3

An exhibition of hotel equipment and travel has been opened m Amsterdam. One feature is a restaurant where the services of waiters are dispensed with,th« guests being served with electrical contrivances. An eminent Scotch surgeon and |Professor m the University of Edinburgh was entirely devoted to his profession. A quaint incident m his practice will show this. The poet Tennyson had at one time consulted him abeut some affection of the lungs. Years afterwards | he returned on the same errand. On being announced he was nettled to observe that Mr Syme had neither any recollection of his face, nor, still more galling, acquaintance with his name. Tennyson thereupon mentioned the fact I of his former visit. Still Syme failed to remember him. But when the Professor put his ear to the poet's chest, and heard the peculiar sound which the old ailment had made chronic, he at once exclaimed, "Ah ! I remember you now. I know you by your lung." Can you imagine a greater humiliation for a poet than to be Known, not by |his lyre, but by his lung !