Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1879 — No New Facts. [ARTICLE]

No New Facts.

It is related that Prof. Simon Newcomb, of the Naval Observatory, at Washington, attended a wedding recently with a friend. After the ceremony he advanced with the others to pay his respects to the bride and groom. Approaching, he solemnly shook hands with each, but said not a Word. As he turned away, his friend, surprised, said, ’“Why didn’t you say something to the bride?” The solemn professor, whois nothing if not scientific, answered: “Why, I didn’t know that I had any new’ facts to impart.”