FEATS OF MEMORY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 4256, 10 July 1895, Page 6

FEATS OF MEMORY.

A St. Louis paper gives prominence to the extraordinary feats of memory of one George W. M 'Million. He is said to remember almost everything he ever knew or read. " He can, off-hand, recite the names, birthdays, hour of death, majorities, and the closest details of the lives of all the Presidents in regular order ; can name the horses in his neighborhood ; can recite poems of 3,000 words without missing a word ; can recount the details of every visit he has made in his life ; can name all the people he has met in two weeks, and every word every one of them said to him ; can quote chapter after chapter of the Bible, and has a ike penchant for repeating history." Mr H. W. Lucy, in the ' Strand Magazine ' for April, states that Lord Randolph Churchill in his early parliamentary days had an almost phenomenal memory. "He could repeat a whole page of verse or prose after having once read it over. This being asserted at a country house where he was staying, and polite incredulity being expressed, he offered a wager that he would, after once reading it over, recite a page from any book to be selected by his doubting friend. The wager was accepted, and a volume of Gibbon's ' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ' was taken down from the library shelf. The volume was opened at random. Lord Randolph read a page, and, handing the book over to the umpire, recited every word without error or hesitation." .

Testimony from the rural districts of England shows that the experience of telegraphing weather forecasts during the hay and corn harvests proved last year of substantial value.