Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1908 — How Lord Kelvin Saved His Neck. [ARTICLE]

How Lord Kelvin Saved His Neck.

The late Lord Kelvin, when he was deep in some abstract problem, was very absent-minded and unpunctual. So much so, that his parrot used always to cry out: "Late again! Late again!” when the scientist came in to his meals. He never gave himself time to catch trains, and for many years persisted in jumping into trains while they ware In motion—to the great risk of his limbs. His friends declared that the ice accident which lamed him was a blessing In disguise, for It saved his neck.