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Show ItrraarLable Memories. There was a Corelcan ly who could rehearse lO.IXU wonls, wlieth-ersenso wlieth-ersenso or nonsense, as tliey were dictated, aud tbeu repeat them in the reverse order without making a slugle mistake. A physician, about sixty years ago could reieat thu whole of "1'ar-adiso "1'ar-adiso Loit," without making a mistake, mis-take, although ho bad not read it for twenty years. Kuler, the great mathematician, when ho became blind, could repeat re-peat tho wholo of Virgil's "ii'oeid" and could remember tho first line aud last lino of every logo of the articular edition which he had been accustomed to read before he became blind. One kiud of retentive memory may bo considered as the result of sheer work, a determination toward one particularachlevement without reference either to cultivation or to memory on other subjects. This is frequently shown by persons in human life in regard to the Bible. Au old beggar man at Stirling, knowu fifty years ago as "lillnd Allck," afforded an Instance of this. He kuew the w hole of the Bible by heart, inasmuch that If a sentence was read to him he could name thu book, cliat U r aud verse; or it the lwok,cliapter and verse were named, he could give the exact words. A gentleman totcstblm, repealed a verse, isirposely making one -verbal inaccuracy. Alick hesitated, named the place where the passAge was to bu found, but at thu ssrue time pointed out the verbal error. The same gentleman asked him to repeat the ninetieth verse of the seventh chapter of the Book of Numbers. Alick almost instantly replied, "There is no such verse. That chapter has only eighty nine verses." Gassendi has acquired 1 heart G000 Latin verses, and Iu order or-der to give his memory cxurclse, he was in the habit daily of reciting GOD verses from different languages |