Show IDIOT STRONG ON FIGURES mentally unbalanced but can outdistance reliable calculators before a hamburg medical society a perfect idiot was produced who Is able it Is said to outdistance the most reliable calculator in the world he Is twenty five years old of good phy elque but mentally unbalanced for the benefit of the doctors he piled and subtracted three four five and six figure example without the least difficulty and with absolute ac curacy questioned as to the day of certain dates during the past year or past century he answered after a few moments reflection counting in the leap years As an adding machine he does wonders but in all other respects be has no sense whatever his great est delight Is to hoe potatoes and count them 1133 in a sack he Is a member of an insane fraternity of 1 and spends his time going from one to the other congratulating him or her on their birthday or all of which he keeps in his head |