Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1892 — Absent-Minded People Are Clever. [ARTICLE]

Absent-Minded People Are Clever.

While, luckily for the world, all clever people are not absent-minded, nevertheless an absent-minded person is almost invariably a clever person and very often is a really intellectual man or woman whose absurd aberrations are therefore all the more laftghable and conspicuous. One of our prominent men, who is noted for his urbanity and easy way of dealing with “the boys, ” had a call a week or two ago fijom a local politician whose influence was more or less important in his ward. As he was leaving, Mr. accompanied him into the hall and, picking up his own brandnew spring overcoat with a polite “Let me aid you,” helped the man into it despite . the latter’s rather feeble protestations. “You will need it, the air is so keen,” said Mr. blandly, as the man, accepting the situation, walked away, doubtless thinking it a delicate way of procuring a vote. A few minutes afterward Mr. discovered his mistake, but his new SBO top coat was gone forever. Another clever man who was extremely forgetful as well as absentmipded left the hotel at Lakewood not .long, since, arriving £t the station with some friends a short time before the train was due. “By Jove!” he suddenly exclaimed. “I left iny watch in my room. I will just havq time to run back and get it," he continued, pulling out of his pocket to the amusement of his friends the identical timepiece, gazing at it wildly for a second and then starting at a rapid pace for the hotel. Not until his friends shouted after him with laughter did he realize that he had timed himself with the watch itself. —New York Tribune.