Last week in Linz 180 people died who had the flu that is currently raging in Linz, but they died not from the flu but as the result of a prescription that was misunderstood by a newly appointed pharmacist. The pharmacist will probably be charged with reckless homicide, possibly, according to the paper, even before Christmas.

Disappointed Englishmen

DISAPPOINTED ENGLISHMAN

Several Englishmen who were inveigled by a mountain guide in eastern Tyrol into climbing the Drei Zinnen with him were so disappointed, after reaching the highest of the three peaks, with what Nature had to offer them on this highest peak that then and there they killed the guide, a family man with three children and, it seems, a deaf wife. When, however, they realized what they had actually done, they threw themselves off the peak, one after the other. After this, a newspaper in Birmingham wrote that Birmingham had lost its most outstanding newspaper publisher, its most extraordinary bank director, and its most able undertaker.

The Most Successful Concert

THE MOST SUCCESSFUL CONCERT

A so-called Chamber Music Association famous for playing only ancient music on original instruments and for having only Rossini, Frescobaldi, Vivaldi, and Pergolesi in its repertoire was playing in an old castle on the Attersee and had its greatest success since it was founded. The applause continued until the Chamber Music Association did not have a single encore left on its program to play. It was not until the next day that the musicians were told that they had been playing in an institute for deaf-mutes.

Scientific Purposes

SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES

A hairdresser who suddenly went mad and decapitated a duke, allegedly a member of the royal family, with a razor and who is now in the lunatic asylum in Reading—formerly the famous Reading Jail—is said to have declared himself ready to make his head available for those scientific purposes which, in his opinion, would be rewarded with the Nobel Prize within at least eight or ten years.

Profound and Shallow

PROFOUND AND SHALLOW

On his way back from Moscow, where he had been the guest of the Academy of Sciences, the world-famous French philosopher who has for decades been called the most important of his time came to Vienna to give the same lecture to the Viennese Academy of Sciences that he had already given in Moscow. After his lecture I was the guest of two professors and members of the Viennese Academy who, like me, had heard the French philosopher’s lecture. The one called the lecture, and thus the French philosopher as well, profound, the other called it shallow, and both of them produced solid grounds for their assertions.

Character

CHARACTER