Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-09-24
vAGARIES OF THE MEMORY.
One Man Had to Get Drunk In order to
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One Man Had to Get Drunk In Order to
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Men have been known to leave home
for few days, commit some serious
crime and return, quite oblivious of
what they had done. Very interesting
is the case, so common among soldiers
who have fought battle and who when
it is over cannot recall the events for
several hours. The same thing happens
to those who have escaped from ship
wreck and to aeronauts who have just
descended from the clouds. This is
the temporary loss due to strong emo
ton. Then there are curious examples
of temporary loss of memory owing to
fatigue.
Sir Henry Holland when down a mine
in the Harz mountains and suffering
from fatigue completely forgot his Ger
man and could not remember a word
CT it until he had rest and refreshment
after ascending. We all experience this
in a less degree. Sometimes it is all
injury which causes the blank in the
backward gaze. An English professor
once received a violent blow on the
head and at once forgot all his Greek
and musician lost his memory Of music
from the same cause Mr.. Whymper,
IN his book on the Alps, tells how he fell
over frightful precipice 200 feet high,
with the result that his past was for a
time wholly blotted out of his memory.
The most singular cases of memory
loss are in connection with language.
1t is quite common in our hospitals to
see a sick German unable to speak a
word Of the English he had thoroughly
mastered.
A clergyman some time ago lost all
recollection of words, but he could still
remember the letters of which they
were composed and could express his
ideas freely by spelling the words. An
officer suffered from a slight attack Of
apoplexy, and as result forgot all but
a very few words. When he tried to
speak he merely uttered nonsense, but
if Il book or manuscript were handed to
him he read it with perfect propriety.
One Of the most extraordinary Of all
memory losses is when & person for
gets how to write with his right hand,
but still has the power to do SO with
his left hand. In such a case after he
has written with his left hand the
desired sentence he can copy it with his
right hand.
When the memory Of words is gradu
ally lost it invariably progresses in one
particular order. First the proper.
nouns, then adjectives, and this stage
is followed by failure of power to rec
fer from the first defree; excessive
smokers, for instance, it is said, some
times find it difficult to recall proper
names. Drunkenness is a Well-lnown
cause, and there is the very curious case
of a man who mislaid a package while
drunk, forgot where lie had put itwhen
sober and had to get drunk again to
find it.--St. James Gazette.
A Trying Position.
Old Mrs. Nj, who was seriously
i'll, found herself to be in trying posi-
ton which she defined to a friend in
these words:
"You see my daughter Harriet is mar
RED to one O. these homeypath doctors
and my daughter Kate to an allypath.
If I call in the homeypath my allypath
son-in-law an his wife git mad, an if
1 call in my allypath son-in-law my
homeypath son-in-law an his wife git
mad, an if go ahead an git we'll with
out either O. 'em then they'll both be
mad, SO don't see but I'd better die out
right Detroit Free Press.