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Show GREAT FEATS OF MEMORY. London Youth of Long Ago Remembered Remem-bered All He Had Read. Tho London TlmcB recently published pub-lished nn extract from Its columns j)t a century ago In which were related tho remarkable feats of memory performed per-formed by T. P. Oldfleld, who died at Grotto house, Margate, Iu tho sixteenth six-teenth year of his age. The extract reads: "At tho age of flvo and one-halt years he had scarlet fever, which brought on him paralysis of the lower extremities and debilitated his body for the rcBt of his life, but his mind presented the finest display of human perfection. "Whatever ho read ho Instantly had by honrt; his fnvorlto pursuits were the mathematics, philosophy, astronomy, astron-omy, geography, history and painting, In all of which ko mado a great proficiency, pro-ficiency, ills favorite authors were Locke and Newton, and his retentive faculties were fo strong thnt he never forgot u single Incident with which' he had been onco acquainted. "Ho could rclato every circumstance ot Grecian, Boraan and English history his-tory was mnster of astronomy nnd had pursued It up to all its recent discoveries; hnd tho finest taste for drnwlng nnd painting nnd would frequently fre-quently tnko ndmlrnb'lo llkenoBses of persons who struck him from memory. Ho wroto a hand like copper plate nnd nt n very early period In llfo lint; made himself maBter of arithmetic. "Ho was never known to bo out of temper, nnd though ho sufferod ' nn Illness of ten years, which terminated In n dropsy and bursting of a blood vessel upon tho lungs, he wns never onco known to repine or bo Impatient. Impa-tient. His wit wns brilliant and re-flnod re-flnod and his loss will over bo regretted regret-ted by those who had the happlnebs to know him." |