| Show IF r alibi A Al PRODIGY IIi nii nit 4 jedediah buxton although his grandfather was a clergyman and his father a was so neglected in his education that he be could not even write hia hla mental faculties were slow blow with theone the one wonderful exception of his power wen of mental arithmetic after to heaning hearing e a r in g ils PLO a sermon bermon erm 0 n b be e remembered and cared for nothing concerning it except the number of words which had been counted during their delivery if a period of time or size of an object r were are ane mentioned in his hearl nghe almos A consciously began to count J baw 4 w many hair hain breadths there were in it s i gp jup walked from chesterfield to il have the krahm bof seeing george II 11 and while in thep ther was waa taken much no tied of by members of the royal S society cleis anone on one ono occasion he went tasee t see garrick in richard im ill but buit instead of attending to the performance in the usual wax way he found occupation in wal nal I 1 or words a uttered performer I 1 lifter striding over a areld reid in two or xin three directions he would tell the number of square are inches it contained he cou could d num nam number a b er all the th pints of boer boez he ail all I 1 the houses lid he had ever visited vi ri sited during half a a cea cen century tury hei onee once liht set seh himself to reckon how much a farthing times limes would amount to it if doubled times limes the tho result calne elmont nut out in such a stupendous aunda sterling as 29 places ot figures aenus in 1750 this problem was put to him bim to find olt ott out how many cubical eighths afifa inch there are in a mass which measured yards iong long on 9 5 km 2 yards wide vide sud aud and yards yar a thick he ans answer dad ei bed ted this as all the rest nien mien mentally tilly occasion he made himself what be he called balled drunk with reckoning the fA flowing owing in cubic inilla ihry many grains of eight different hindson hind kind sot of corn ascertained by actual counting how many of edeh each kind of grain and how ciany haira hairs an inch long would go to an ana and then set himself about his beld self elf latos imposed ed task he could suspend any of his bis Is problem leins for any auy length of time an and aud d resume at the point where he left kofl off and could couldron con verse on other subjects while thus thui employed he could never give any account 0 of the way in which he worked out his problems nor did his hia singular tut ut exceptional faculty bring any other advantage ad than that of being invited to th the house soo of gentry as afkind of show |
