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Show GREAT FEATS OF MEMORY PUT ON HISTORIC RECORD Unless there is something unusually unusu-ally difficult In memorizing figures quickly, the young Serb of Belgrade-who Belgrade-who claims to have set up a world's iecord by committing to memory in ten minutes a number containing ' more than eighty figures does not l37 seem to have done anything remarkable. remark-able. He would at any rate have had a formidable rival In James Milnes Gnskell, a cousin of Lord; Houghton (Monckton Milnes), who. once repeated the tellers in every house of commons division for the preceding sixty years and suggested an "amusing game" which consisted! In each player giving the name of a parliamentary borough and the persons per-sons who had represented it during the same sixty years. Gaskell said that he and his father once played at that game nearly a whole day without stopping. What prodigies of useless knowledge they must have been ! Another remarkable feat of memory mem-ory is recorded of a soldier who. served in the New Zealand expeditionary expedi-tionary force during the war. He claimed that he could remember the name and number of every soldier In his battalion, and his claim was unexpectedly put to a test when the battalion headquarters were blown up and all the records were de-stroyed. de-stroyed. But the soldier, who is now a professor at Edinburgh university, was as good as his word and supplied sup-plied the missing details. Montreal Herald. |
