A PRECOCIOUS BABY.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 2625, 30 October 1894, Page 3

A PRECOCIOUS BABY.

A real infant phenomenon keeps all medical men and pedagogues of the good old town of Brunswick in a state of wonder and delight. The little son of a local batoher, a baby jut,t two years old, can read with perfeot ease anything written or (irinted in German or Latin characters. A ew weeks ago three Brunswiok doctors had the baby introduced to tbem at tbe honse of one of the learned gentlemen Tho first thing the little one did when brought into the consulting room was to stand on his toes at the table, reading out from the books that were lying about. All that oould be ascertained ac to the why and wherefore of tbis uncanny accomplishment is that, when the baby was eighteen months old, and his grandmother took him out, ho always immediately caught sight of the inscriptions over shops, and asked about them aB only a ohild can ask, till he had fathomed the meaning of the letters. It was the same at home 5 books and newspapers had greater fascinations than lollipops and toys, and whatever the parents playfully told him he remembered, with the result that at the age of two years he reads with perfeot ease. Apart from his accomplishment in reading, the boy's development is quite normal.