Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1881 — Men With Good Memories. [ARTICLE]

Men With Good Memories.

Perhaps there is not such a wonderful memory for poetry in this country as Butler’s. He drinks in every pleasant verse and spouts it out at will ; Blaine has a similar memory for names, Greeley had such a memory for election figures, Dana has such a memory for ancient and modern classics, Conkiiug lias such a memory for political data, Beecher lias such a memory for anecdote, Talmage such a memory for metaphors, Storrs such a memory for history, Van Dyke such a memory for theological controversies, and Ingersoll such a memory for the gems of Voltaire. It is said that Grant can remember every man he ever took a drink with ; that Schuyler Colfax and R. B. Hayes remember every Sunday-school they ever addressed. Evarts remembers to a cent the fees he has received in his law practice. Stoughton remembers every wealthy family he lias had the pleasure of knowing. Jay Gould, who forgot on the witness-stand whether he drew his check for five or ten millions, remembers that he was once poor and that lie didn’t like it. Vanderbilt remembers the family legend about Jay Gould.