WONDER MAN OF FIGURES

Hawera Star, Volume L, 5 March 1931, Page 6

WONDER MAN OF FIGURES

i *> : SKULL SOLD TO SCIENTISTS. > ~~ WIFE AN,l> A BLACK BO A BIX ' “Toll me your telephone number?” “Seven three nine six.” 1 “And yours, and yours. . . .” Twenty telephone numbers, and Olgo will repeat them all after half an . hour’s interval, backwards, forwards, inside out. He is the lightning matlie.. ; matician from Budapest, Hungary, ; who was lately giving nightly perlorm'ances in London. One tells Olgo to square, cube and find the roots of astronomical figures, L and with scarcely a moment’s hesitation lie will patter them off. “What day of the week was Sep- : tember 17, 1911?”. —“Zunday.” Olgo has a wonder brain inside his well-shaped head. Since he was six years old he lias steadily developed his mathematical abilities, and now at . 27 iiis head is his fortune. No magic wand lias Olgo brought with him. just his wife and a blackboard. It is on flic blackboard that lie does liis best turn. One calls out a number of eight figures and hi.s wife writes it down. Olgo stands with his hack to the hoard and when 64 figures arc chalked up lie rattles them oil' like a shot. Biit that is nothing. At. the end of his evening's performance he starts with the most- central figure on the hoard and facing his audience he reels the numbers oft as his wife taps them in spiral succession on the blackboard. “Figures mean something different to me,” said Olgo, in broken Eng iisli. “I see them standing out in m> mind like the letters in advertising signs. It is just training, and concentration which has made it possible for mo to do this. “Is your brain specially insured?” “No.” said Olgo, “but I have just received the first deposit on my skull which is going to be handed over to [science when I die.”