Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1902 — Two Rapid Reader. [ARTICLE]

Two Rapid Reader.

Perhaps the fastest reader the world ever knew was Gladstone. He could read and digest a nrivel of 50,000 words, a scientific work as large or larger, a political treatise or a history by merely glancing at the leaves as he turned them over. His eye aud mind seemed to photograph with the rapidity of an Instantaneous camera. Ills eye/ was the lens, Iris 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 and secretary of the treasury. Joe Blackburn says that Carlisle is the most remarkable man he ever 6nw; 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.—New York Press. v