Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1900 — Wonderful Feat of Memory. [ARTICLE]

Wonderful Feat of Memory.

That memory can be trained to a remarkable degree has long been admitted, but a test to which Henry M. Plllsbury, the chess expert, recently submitted was one of the most remarkable Illustrations of mental capacity ever witnessed. While at the Northampton Club at South Bethlehem, Pa., not long ago he had, while blindfolded, participated in a team of four whist and at ttfe same time contested in ten games of chess—nine of which he *won, the other having been drawn—he offered to memorize thirty words, no matter how hai-d they might he, the selections to be read to him only once. Prof. Merrlman, of Lehigh University, and Dr. Trelkeld Edwards, of Bethlehem, picked out most of the following words: Antlphlogistian, pereosteum, takadiastase, plasmln, ambrosia, Trelkeld, streptococcus, staphelococcus, micrococcus, plasmodium, Mississippi, Freiheit, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, American, Russia, philosophy, Piet-Potgie-ters-Rost, SaJamagundi, Oomsillecootsl, Bangmamvato, Sclilochter’s Nek, Manzinyama, theosophy, catechism, Madjesoomslopa. Pillsbury memorized these words and repented them In the .order given and iu the reverse order, and he did not have any difficulty in repeating them the next day.