Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1893 — An Absent-Minded Man. [ARTICLE]

An Absent-Minded Man.

Johns Hopkins University still gossips of Prof. Sylvester, the marvelous mathematician who came over from England to teach the science in which all his interests centered. His mind was ever occupied with mathematical problems, and all sorts of things happened to him on the streets of Baltimore. The most amusing episode of his life on this side, however, grew out of a voyage, to Europe. While abroad he made some highly important .calculations, but on reaching Baltimore he found that the paper on which he figured was missing. So important were the calculations that he took a steamer back to England in order to look up the papers. He did not find them, and started back to the United States deeply disappointed; but during the voyage he accidentally discovered, in a pocket of the overcoat he had worn on the previous voyage, the very thing he was iD search of.