Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-06-11
Great Memory.

words, which were given him in the samc
order.
lIortensius kept in his memory all the pri-
ccs paid on day of auction
Hugo Grotius, on being present at review.
of some regiments in France recalled nil
the names of the single soldiers which
were there called up.
Justus Lipsius venturcd to rehearsc tho
words of Tacitus, from the first word to the
last forward and backward oven when
somebody was standing before him with q
drawn dagger to pierce him at the very mo-
ment he had forgotten but an only word
-. Nenitian lady, well known for her cru
attended in church, repeated scrupulously
every word.
Kaclno knew by memory all the tragedies
of Euripdes, Baye tho whole work of Mon
toignc, Hughes Donncau the Corpus Juris,
Nlctastasio the entire lIoratius, and Cartorct,
Lord lieutenant Of Ireland, all the Now
Testament from the first chapter of Matthew
to- to the .S end S of Apocalypse. The learned
Scotchman Thomas Dempster affirmed he
knew not what it was to forge ; and Scalgcr
is told to have apprehcnded within four
months all the Greek poets.
The notorious and mysterious Count of St.
German surpasses them all. Any newspa-
per he read once he knew by memory, and
was furnished with such a gigantic compre-
''N''SI w IN"Si vi lllUI lie TcInlnCu
series of a thousand numbers which he
could recitc forward backward and pulled
out from the middle From tho court of
Henry III. in Cracow, he demanded one
hundred packs of picket cards, mixed them
together in disorder lot him tell all tho sue,
cesson of the cards, ordered to bc noted
down exactly, and repeated their following
one alter the other, without being wrong
once.
lie played almost every musical instru-
mont of the world, was an excellent printer,
and initiated any handwriting in the most
illusive manner. lie had but one passion-
playing all games with absolute mastery.-
In chess no mortal had vanquished him, and
in faro he could break every bank by calcu-
ation.
| In ancient times when books were unknown
or possessed only by the few, all legendary
accounts, poems, and history were kept 10
the memory of successive generations in tho
same words as those in which thcy were prob
ably spoken at first. We arc indebted to tho
memory of many generations of Greeks for
the preservation of the llliad and Odyssey.
TIE DYING NEVER WEEp.-It is stri
king fact-the dyingncver weep The cir
Gle of sobbing, agonized hearts around, pro-
! duccs not one tear. Is it that he is inscn-
sible and stiff already in the chill of disso
luton? That cannot be, for he asks for
his fathers hand, as if to gain strength in
the mortal struggle, and leans on the breast
| OF mother, brother, or sister, with still con-
scious affection; and just before expiring,
at eve, after long days converse with the
Angel of Summons, he says to his oldest
brother-the last audible good night of
earth" Kiss mc-Kiss mcw 1t must
be because the dying have reached point
too deep for earthly crying and wcepng.-
They are face to face to higher and holicr
beings, with the Father in Heaven, and
his angel throng, led nby tho son himself;
and what are the griefs of morning, tears
of dying farewell-be it that they are shed
/ by the dearest on carth--in that vision
bright of immortal life and everlasting re-
union
WINDOWS OPENED MORE WOULD KEEP
DocToRs FROM THE DooR.-A very large
quantity of fresh air is spoiled and render
cd foul by the act of breathing. A man
spoils not less than gallon every min
ute. In eight hours breathing, a full |
grown man spoils as much fresh air as sew
entecn thrcc-bushc sacks could hold If |
he were shut upin room seven feet long,
and seven feet high, the door and windows
fitting so tightly that no air could pass
through, he would die, poisonedby his own
breath, in a very few hours in twenty
four hours he would have spoiled all the
air contained in the room, and have CONVEX
ted it into poison Reader, when you rise
tomorrow morning, just 60 out of doors
for five minutes, and observe carefully. the
freshness of the air. That air is in the
state in which God keeps it for breathing.
Then come back suddenly into your close
room, and your own senses will at once
make you feel how very far the air in your
chamber is from being in the same Whole
some and serviccoble condition.
TIE Eye OF THE NEEDLE.-A recent
traveller to the Holy Land informs us that
there is at the side ofthe principal gate of
Jerusalem a small one, which, upon occa-
slons of great urgency, was opened for the
admission of persons after the great gates
of the city were all closed for the night
This gate, from it's small size, was called
the Eye of the Needlej and to get a camel
through it all was no small task-for load
ed camel to pass was an utter impossibility.
With the above fact before the mind, one
can see that the words of our Saviour, when
speaking of the strait gate" and the " rich
mar" were more literal than many sun
pose. And we see how as the rich man
passes into the narrow way, the sides and
the low top ofthe strait gate scrapc every
thing from him in which he had before
! trusted. No one can take anythinr but