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Show An Artificial Icnioi-y. It is said that the Emperor Xnpo-ieon Xnpo-ieon has an extraordinary memory tor names, ticrure?, faces mm miscellaneous facts, and" it is related tuat k is his invariable in-variable habit, on having communicated communica-ted to liim a name or a number, or any brief fact which he wishes to remember, remem-ber, to write it down in a note Look, and then tear 'lie loaf out of the book, read it ovrr once attentively, and then tear the leaf up. After impressing a fact on his mind by this process Ik-never Ik-never forgot it. The key to thi- exira-ordiuary exira-ordiuary family tit' memory dnninics lies in the fact that, daring his yea's of imprisonment, in early life, he did not d:re to carry important memoranda about him. lie was obliged to rely on his memory ; but that he did not at first trul it altogether, is seen from the fact, that through the force of habit, he is till obliged to make Mire of a fact by writing it down, nnd so fixing it in bis mind, instead of trusting trust-ing entirely to the sense of hearing to act upon his memory. |
