Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-03-20

Cincinnati. who 10 experimenting in this coun-
try. AN Of Abe above plane except Prof. San
dess, q Cineinnati were Investigated BY DR..
Fyfe, d London, Uho announoed the conclu-
sion he arrived selsea his trisis, q the fol.
lowing 1erms: sIn no instaeee 10 their any
gain ID the amount Of Night Mom coal or reals
gas by the agency Of water in the method rec
ommended by the advocates Of the by dro car
bon gas. 1t hAs been further shown by Dr.
Fyfs THAI in many of the published statements
which shave been put forward in favor Of this
mode OF gas manufacture; the advantages
arising from the quantity of gas alone have
been taken into calculation. without reference
TO its inferir quality. and that in every case
where quantity Of gas has been obtained
from coal alone by proper management, not
only Is there no economy in converting It into
hydro-caFbon gas, but considerable loss, and
this without taking enlarged gas holders,
pipes, DC, into account. which would be re-
quired to obtain an equal amount Of light
from the less luminous gas"
The Blind Negro Pianist.
The N. Q. Picayuns says of this
youthful phenomenon, who is now per-
forming at the Ampitheator in New Or
leans:
"iere is a simple plantation negro
boy, born blind, with no education of
any kind, whose surroundings from his
birth have been entirely adverse to the
development Of any natural powers,
mental or hysical he may possess, who
can play minuet, waltz, march, fanta-
STA, with near approach to entire a.cu-
racy, after hearing it once performed.-
We had some doubts of his capacity to
do this until we satisfied ourselves, up
on personal observation, that he could
do it, and when we heard him we were
| compelled to acknowledge that the halt
has not been told u.s.
AN accomplished lady pianist took
her seat at the piano, and played bril-
liant waltz, unpublished, and of her own
composition. Tom stood by the side Of
the instrument, his elbow upon it, with
bis hands upon his ears, and listening
attentivcly. When the waltz had been
very artis,ically played over twice, he
took the seat, and repeated it with the
most marvellous accuracy, three or four
timcs, each time more exactly than the
last And the experiment was again
tried, and with precisely the same result.
"In Mobile, as we learn from the COL
umns of the Register, he performed on
tho first hearing that brilliant study Of
Thalberg, the theme of which is the air
of LILLY Dale" NJ. Oliver, Toms
master, at the same Seance, challenged
any one of the audience to produce a
piece, for four hands, himself to play the
primo, to which the boy could not, at
once, perform secondo. The challenge
was accepted, and after having success
fullo improvised the second part, Tom
changed seats with the primo player,
and performed that part with entire &C
curacy.
tom sings, too, anything he hears
sung. He knows nothing of the French
language, but he sang us verse of the
'Marseilaise,' in French, giving the
words as well as the air with astonishing
fidelity
l. POPULATION OF CHIcAGo.-The Chi
cago Times of the 8tb, says:
Estimating the population of Chica-
| go upon Tie ESTABLISHED uasls Vi seFeH III
habitants to voter, would, taking the
vote of Tuesday as the standard, give an
aggregate of 1926. We think, how
ever, that there are at least two thous-
and persons now here, who, though old
enough to vote, have not yet completed
their naturalization. This would add
$4,000 to the aggregate population, ma
king the total about las, 900, which We
suppose is not far from the actual
figures"