Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — Would Astonish Vincent Crummles. [ARTICLE]

Would Astonish Vincent Crummles.

A real infant phenomenon keeps all the medical men' and pegagogues of the good old townbf Brunswick in a sta eof wondeFand delight. The little son of a local butcher, a baby just 2 years old, cAn read with perfect ease anything written or •printed in German or Latin ghavacters. A few weeks ago three Brunswick doctors had the baby introduced to them nt the house of one of the learned gentlemen. Tho first thing the little one did when brought into the consulting room was to stand on his tees at the table, reading out from the books that were lying about. .AU that equid be ascertained as to the why and wherefore of this uncanny acdbmplishttidnt is that, when the baby was months 'old, and his grandmother took him out. he always immediately Caught'eight of the inscriptlom over shops, and asked about them as only i 8 small child can ask, until he had fathomed the meaning of tho letters. It was the same at homo; books and newspapers had greater fasthah lollipops and toys, and whatever' the parents playfully told him he remembered, with the result that at the age of 2 years he reads with perfect oaso. Apart from his accomplishment in reading, the hny s development, is jjuite normal.—Westminster Gaietto.