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New Zealand Tablet, Volume 51, Issue 51, 22 April 1898, Page 4

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Stories about absent-minded professors and other monuments of learning are always in order, and probably the worst case on record comes from a university town. The professor was hurrying with a friend to catch a train, when he stopped suddenly and exclaimed : " There, I've come away and left my watch ?" " Let's go back and get it." suggested the friend. "No ; I don't believe we shall have time," said the professor, and he drew the lost watch out of his pocket, looked carefully at the dial, counted the minutes, and added : " No, there won't be time enough." Then he pressed on to the station, saying : " Oh, well, I suppose I can get along all right for one day without a watch." — Modern Society.

A former King of Prussia, Frederick William I, the father of Frederick the Great, had a passion for tall soldiers. The species is not yet extinct. In the Prussian Regiment of the Grade dv Corps at Potsdam is a soldier named Conr.d, who is Bft 6£in in height, and has hitherto passed for thp tallest German soldier. Now, however, the statement comes from Bavaria that Prussia's military phenomenon is placee in the shade by an infantryman of the Munich Body Regiment, who stands 6ft 6|in, and is Germany's tallest soldier.