Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1881 — A Phenomenal Memory. [ARTICLE]

A Phenomenal Memory.

In the St. L mis postofficß is employed a man with a phenomenal memory. He was taken on in the mailing division about eighteen months ago and given the lowest position. He was several times promoted on account of his good record, and at his last examination gave evidence of his close application and phenomenal memory. It is customary for the examiner to name the postoffices in a certain amount of territory and require the examinee to give the location. In this case the employe was examined on the poptpffices of Missouri, of which fchpre are 1,790. He did not need to be

questioned, but, without prompting, named every postoffice in the State and the county in which it is situated, and without missing or mistaking a postoflice or a county, and did this in thirty minutes.—New York Commercial Advertiser.