AN ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 40, 4 October 1890, Page 9

AN ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR.

The prize medal for absent-minded-nessduring lectures must be awarded to a German professor named Johannes Amer, who recently died in Vienna. One of his pupils has a list of his remarkable sayings, among them the following : ‘ Julius Ciesar, disguised as a slave, swam naked across the Tiber.’ ‘Alexander the Great was born in the absence of his parents.’ ‘ The Swiss are a mountainous nation, but in Scotland the climate does not begin till October.’ * Hogs were invented in Asia Minor.’ ‘Thus arose a general war on page 94.’ ‘The third Tunic war would have been out much sooner hail it commenced a little earlier. ‘Covered with countless wounds, Ca-sar fell dead near the statue of Pompey ; with one hand he drew his toga over his face, while with the other he called for help.’