Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — A Puzzled Professor. [ARTICLE]

A Puzzled Professor.

The story is told of a famous mathematician that he was frequently guilty, during his courtship, of walking the greater part of a mile with the young woman without speaking. One evening hhe took advantage of his absentmindedness to play him a trick. She slipped her hand from his arm and hurried home a learer way. He continued to hold his anfi in the same position, walked up the of her father’s house and rang the bell; lo 1 she herself opened the door. Hfe stared in an incredulous manner, and e; claimed: “ Why, S , how iji the world did you get on that side of tip door ? ”