Eureka Reporter | 1905-04-28 | Page 7 | Idiot Strong on Figures

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 bique but mentally unbalanced for the benefit of the doctors he plied and subtracted three tour 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 alter a few moments reflection counting in the leap years As an add ng machine he does wonders but in all other respects he has no sense whatever his great est delight is to hoe potatoes and count them 1133 in a sack he Is a mem berof an insane fraternity of 1 and spends his time going from one to the other congratulating him 1 her 1 nr tt 1 n a v to al ut up oc ot he w htwe tw ft ul slie most scientific principles be weighed himself before and after each meal he bad his appendix removed so as to avoid all risk of appendicitis and in short he so fully realized the duty of being hea thy and long lived that he never had time to do anything else or talk about anything else bately he never took that fickle jade fortune into his calculations and after only a ear of striving most man fully to fulfill the duty of being long lived he slipped on a piece of orange peel and fractured the base of his skull pali mall gazette