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Show A Memory Tost. A professor of mnemonics had gono to lecture at or near Canterbury. After tho lecture was finished ho had to wait for his London train, it was a most comfortless day, and ho retired re-tired to an inn for shelter nnd refreshment. re-freshment. To pass tho tlmo ho began be-gan to exhibit his fents of memory to the yokols In tho Inn parlor, and ono und all wero thunderstruck oxcept tho waiter. There Is always ono skeptic In every communion, whethor of saints or sinners. Do what ho would ho could not mitigate tho acrid smllo of acrid Incredulity of that glorified potman! In the midst of one of his most difficult feats the whlstlo sounded of the "Only train to London to-night!" nnd io rushed off to catch It. Ho caught It at, tho station, nnd his reputation caught It in tho inn parlor, for tho waiter coming In with soino ordered refreshments and finding find-ing him gono pointed to the corner whore he had been sitting and exclaimed: ex-claimed: "Silly 'umbug, ho's forgot his umbrella!" The Young Man. |