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Show GREAT FEATS OF MEMORY. London Youth of Long Ago Remembered Remem-bered All He Had Read. Tho London Times recently published pub-lished an extract from Its columns jl a century ago In which wero related tho remarkable feats of memory performed per-formed by T. P. Oldflcld, who died at Grotto house, Margate, In tho sixteenth six-teenth year of his age. The extract reads: "At the age of five aud one-half years he had scarlet fever, which brought on bun paralysis of the lower extremities and debilitated his body for tho rest of his life, but his mind presented the finest display of human perfection. "Whatever ho read ho Instantly had by heart; his favorite pursuits wero the mathematics, philosophy, aBtrou-omy, aBtrou-omy, geography, history and painting, In all of which ho made a great proficiency. pro-ficiency. Ills favorite authors were Locke and Newton, and his retentive faculties wero so strong that ho never forgot a single Incident with which' he had been onco acquainted. "He could rolato every circumstance ot Grecian, Roman and English history? his-tory? was master of "astronomy and had pursued It up to all Its recent discoveries; had tho finest tasto for drawing mid painting nnd would frequently fre-quently tnko admirable likenesses of persons who struck him from memory, He wroto a hand like copper plate and at a very early period In life iat' mado himself master of arithmetic. "Ho was never known to bu out of temper, and though ho suffered " nn Illness of ten years, which terminated In a dropsy and bursting of a blood vessel upon tho lungs, he was never onco known to replno or bo Impatient, Impa-tient, His wit was brilliant and refined re-fined and his loss will over bo regretted regret-ted by those who had the happiness to know him." |