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Show N ft . QUICKWCOOliD.lWft e fx f xF. . m&v of mains 5 , I 1 f 1 CM 61JfM MEMORY o .KfeMN CiTV fiUWefAftlA H-Trt COITAL MjM? S n oifftRENT locpitiON. weRfe pesTRoyeo OVER IH D. THE HUMAN ALMANAC . . . Spelling such words as metaamidophenylpa-raamethoxyqulnolin metaamidophenylpa-raamethoxyqulnolin Is a mere "breeze" for Clarence Leo Ttghe, the "Human Almanac" of Menard, 111. His remarkable memory has stored up the correct spelling of approximately 100,000 words, many of them as long and little-used as the foregoing one. As a result of his amazing powers of memory, Tighe is pactically a filing cabinet on legs in matters mat-ters ranging from astronomical data to figures and facts on varied sporting records and incidents. Asked for dates of important figures in history, he can reply correctly with lightning-like rapidity. LIVING MONEY . . . Because of a shortage of coins in the British Isles during the middle ages, a system of barter wherein slaves were one of the chief standards of exchange was resorted to. The price of a slave was approximately the same as a falcon or greyhound. grey-hound. Churches sought to discourage the system of "living money" by refusing to accept slave as penance payment. (Copyright, 1937, for The Telegram, |