Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — A marvellous memory. [ARTICLE]

A marvellous memory.

Encyclopedic Knowledge of, a LlttU French Girl of FlveT An infant phenomenon has been discovered at Plaisance, a suburb of Paris, in the person of a little girl ealled Jeanne Eugenie Moreau, aged only five, but endoWed'with’dmbst extraordinary memory. She is a Walking on alt matters' appertaihitig to .Jjqjty' history of France, and especially of the great revolution ; is an adept also in natural history, and at the same time answers without ihesitation or error * pract.cal jJEjfestions about ccoking, gardening management, , • s t The, youthful prodigy wSsHaorn in, Paris in Jauuaiy, in 1887; her father, Phillippe Moreau, being a humble laborer, but fn*m< as revolutionary hero whose name figures .in the annals of 1786, and who was decorated by General de Lafayette after the taking of the Bastile. Owing to the poverty of her progenitor, Eugenie Moreau was adopted by a widow—Mme. Cally—who, noticing the retentive faculties of the child, cultivated and developed' them with assiduity until the phenomenon had become capable of passing a stiff competitive examination and of putting to shame many a schoolboy or schoolgirl of maturer years and more extpttsivb 'education. The fate of Eugenie Moreau "will no doubt be that reserved for all intellectual prodigies of years. She will be exhibited to scientific men and reported upon; she will probably receive an offer from an enterprising showman, and in all likelihood Eugenie, should she survive academical testings and publio examinations, will eventually settle down to the life of a schoolmistress—a calling for which her marvelous memory will preeminently fit her. —{London Telegraph.