Show A LIGHTNING A polish phenomenon who astonishes the natives ya tives boston herald A remarkable instance of rapid mental calculation hag has been dis covered in a young polish boy named paul Zil living in east bridgeport conn he has a low forehead with hair growing down to his eyebrows is rather sleepy looking and shambling in his movements but whenever his father asks him a question relative to numbers hs ba at once brightens up and becomes excited A reporter found him in in a grocery grocer store in east bridgeport this morning and asked his father who was with him if it was true that his son was a lightning calculator M mr t Zil whop who speaks eks poor english and who is now a poor man having lost much of his earnings earning 1 by the lato late frary fe son cutlery failure said in answer paul how bow many beans are there in this handful the boy at once commenced to dance around the store and became greatly excited as tho the father thrust his liand into a barrel of beans took a handful and threw them down into a corner where the they y I 1 lay ay ecat tereda bout the lad ad leaped into kut wo uk r f teuk kau ja i beans were carefully gathered and counted and while this was being done the boy grinned and waited the result showed him to be correct to a bean he relapsed into his usual sleepy manner again the father then seized a handful of 0 oats ats and threw them in a heap upon the counter paul said he be how many oats the boy again jumped to his feet devoured the oats mentally and instantly shouted 2830 it took a long time to count them but the number was wa again found to bo be correct next the father seized a half filled pall of water and asked the boy how many cubic inches of water in the eail pail the boy sized it up with bis eyes an and d quickly shouted 1 I ag V A careful computation proved tho the result to be t other wonderful answers were given always in an excited minner manner and no no corn com parison of his manner at this time seems to be as apt as that of the excitement of a dog when set on by hi liis ni master aster at each and every successful answer tho the same doleful expression returned |