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Show Bulla of a Carman Prol'esitor. The pri medal for absent mindodness during lectures must be awarded to a German professor named Johannes Amer, who recently died in Vienna. One of his pupils had a list of his remarkable sayings, say-ings, among them the following: "Julius Caisar, disguised as a slave, swam naked across the Tiber." "Alexander tho Great was born in the absence of his parents." "The Swiss are a mountainous nation, but in Scotland tho climate does uot begin till October." "Hogs were invented in-vented in Asia Minor." "Thus arose a general war on page 94." "The third runic war would have beeu out much sooner had it commenced a little earlier." "Covered with countless wounds Ciesar fell dead near the statue 0f Pompey; with :ne baud he drew bis toga over his face while with tho other he called for help." |