GERMAN'S REMARKABLE POWER
m--All thai lias ever been recorded of marvellous memory—of Napoleon, who was reputed to know the position of every gun in his empire—of Lord Macaulay and Lord Randolph Churchill, who were said to be able to repeat, a page oF print after a single reading—becomes insignificant by contrast with the gift of ono of the staff of the Prussian State Library. It is declared., says the "Daily Telegraph," that he can remember all the essential facts-, including the official thermometric and barometric readings, for every day in every year since 1881. The j case was taken up seriously by the Metj corological Society of Berlin. The remem- ] berer attended before a-committee of the [society and was asked.to describe the weather of a certain week chosen at random from the archives. He at once recited, without pause or-mistake, the. farts about the weather on each day in th> selected week,.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 130, 5 June 1925, Page 8
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GERMAN'S REMARKABLE POWER
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 130, 5 June 1925, Page 8
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