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Show GREAT FEATS OF KEXOBY. Idiots have been known wboee memory for names and words wae ao retentive that they could repeat a sermon verbatim and Indicate where the preacher blew hie nose and coughed while delivering it-Cardinal it-Cardinal Maaaofantl, the linguist, who la said to have known hundred tesj guagee. declared that he never forgot a word he had once learned. To a friend who had congratulated Leyden oa hie remarkable re-markable memory, he replied that he had often found It a source of great Inconvenience. Incon-venience. On the friend expressing sur-nrlse. sur-nrlse. he explained that ha had often wlehed to recall a particular eapraealan In anmethlng ha had read, but could net do It until he had repeated tha whole paaaage from the beginning to tha as-preealon as-preealon he deal red to recall. An Engliah clergyman mention a man who could remember the day of tha , burial of every pereon who had died In the pariah during thirty-five years, and could aleo repeat tha name and aaa of each deceaeed peraon, and tha aamee of the mournera at hla funeral, but ao weak waa he Intellectually that ha could aot be truated to feed hlmeelf. Dr. Moffat, the dletlngulehad African mleeionary, and fathar-ln-law of Dr. Living. Liv-ing. tnn. once preached a loaf Barmen to . a crowd of negroea. Shortly after he bar flnlehed he aaw a number of aegToea gather about a almple-mlnded young aav-l age. He went to them and dtecaveredl that the aavaxe waa preaching tola eer-mon eer-mon over again. Not only waa ha reproducing re-producing 'the preclee worda. but latitat-' Ing-the manner and geaturea of tha white preacher.- Tit-Bits. |