Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1901 — Some Rapid Readers. [ARTICLE]

Some Rapid Readers.

Perhaps the fastest reader the world ever knew was Gladstone. He could read and digest a novel of 50,000 wards, a scientific work as large or larger, a political treatise or' a history as he turned them over. His eye and mind seemed to photograph with the rapidity of an instantaneous camera. His eye was the lens, his mind the sensitive plate. In his reading he was omnivorous to the last degree. The most rapid reader we ever had in this country is John G. Carlisle, former senator from Kentucky, speaker of the house, secretary of the treasury and now legal representative of a giant trust, with headquarters in New York. Joe Blackburn, the most popular man in Kentucky, says that Carlisle is the most remarkable man he ever saw; that he can tell the contents of a book without looking at It, and give the synopsis of an argument on being told the name of the author. To cure obsoure diseases, renovaue the system with Dr. Kay’s Renovator,

In Retreat. Down from the upper air floated the strains of music, yet Neptune was visibly annoyed. “What’s gnawing at thy vitals, sire ?” asked the mermaid. “I wish in the name of Orpheus,” said the sea king, “that boating parties could sing something else beside ‘A Life on the Ocean Wave!’ ” And forthwith hte crawled into a cave and pulled the cave in after him.—-New York Marine Journal. A Question of Need. “What have you done with all the money I gave you for campaign purposes ?” asked Senator Sorghum. “I have put it where it was needed,” answered the agent. “That’s what I thought,” was the disconsolate answer. “Before I can rely on getting it all placed I suppose I’ve got to wait until you get more than you need.”—