Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1903 — Marvel of Memory. [ARTICLE]

Marvel of Memory.

A postal clerk in a civil service examination did not make a single error in properly 80fting 42,000 test postal cards, each representing a post office In a certain'territory assigned. This was done at the rate of thirty-three ami one-ha if cards a minute. -“V.ax more noteworthy," thinks American Medicine, “is the memory of an expert piano player, who will play an entire season's concerts without a note of printed music before him. His memory is so perfect that hundreds of thousands of notes must be at the orderly and instant disposal of the will, and this is combined with a multiplicity of synchronous recollections of timbre, tempo, expression, etc. The mystery is at present past the hinting of any explanation, and this fact is as beautiful as it Is-appalling. It shows us how far we are from any real science of psychology"