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Show GREETING THAT WAS NEW. Viennese Professor Worried Over American Expression. "There are no more polite persons on earth than tho Viennese," said Dr. D. L. Kahn, who spent five months in tho Austrian capital, says the Indianapolis Indian-apolis News. "You may meet a professor profes-sor or a medical student, Viennese half a dozen times In the course of an evening walk. Every time you meet off comes his hat with the words, 'Ich habo die ehro' 'I have tho honor' usually cut short to 'Habo die ehro,' spoken very quickly, so that In spite of the implicit politeness It Is quite a perfunctory courtesy. "One of tho American students, a big fellow from California, with Yankee Yan-kee shrewdness, sizing this expression at what seemed to him its proper worth, used to meet it with an expression expres-sion that was taken up by all tho Americans. When ho was accosted with 'Habe die ehre ho would tip his hat and resi nd, 'Hot air, eh?' One day a venerablo professor asked an explanation of me. 'What tho devil docs that fellow mean with his hot alr-yo?' asked tho professor. And I was impelled to say I really did not know." |