Legends of the absent-minded savant are legion, but the following, told of
a well-known Ph.D. of this city, perhaps touches the climax:
One of the charwomen in the temple of learning with which he is associated
choked on a pin she had put in her mouth as she went about her work.
Rushing up to Professor Blank's sanctum she burst in through the door
without the formality of a knock.
"Professor, oh, professor!" she panted, "I've swallowed a pin."
"Never mind," returned the professor, feeling absently about the edges of
his lapel without raising his eyes from the book before him, "here's
another one you can have."--_New York Times._