Professor F. L. O. Rhoerig, dean of the College of Asiatic Languages at Cornell University, is said to speak fluently more languages than any other person in the world. Several official papers recently received by the State department at Washington, in languages that no one there understood, have been sent to him to translate, which he has done without difficulty. It is reported that his familiarity with the Persian tongue, as well as with nearly all the important languages of Asia and Europe, has caused his appointment as charge d'affaires in Persia to be strongly recommended and favorably considered at Washington.
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