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Blind Tom.

The negro musical prodigy, blind Tom,'
is also held by the Spritnalists to be me-
dunn, and that it is not he alone, but some
great musician of the past who acts through
him. 1t is certain that he was an idiot. He
began in childhood on Sou heIn planta-
ton, where he used 10 hang about the out
side, under the open window, where his
young "missuses" were playing on the piano,
and was one day found perched on the piano
stool playing astonishingly for himself. So
l was told in London by the late Gen. Wig
fall, of Texas (of both the United S. ates and
the Conf derate Senates), who had known
the family to which he had belonged. /
went TO hear him in the 81. James Hall in
London, where / heard him play three diff
ferent tunes simultaneously, one with the
right hand on the piano, one with the left,
while he whistled the third. A well-known
musical composer went on the stage and
played long and brilliant performance of
his own composition, which had never before
been played or published. The blind negro
youth then succeeded him at tae piano
and played the whole with equal bril-
iancy, and apparently without missing a
note. All the musical world Of London
were there, and the applause was
tbunderous When the musician would
strike fen different notes with his ten fingers
in one crash of mingled sound. Blind Tom
would never fail 10 decompose the sound and
tell all the different notes which bad been
struck. When playing or listening rapt
expression seemed entirely to transform the
stupid idiot face of the negro lad, apparently
then about eighteen years of age. During
the interval between the two parts OF the
exhibition / made my way TO the retiring
room in the rear, introducing myself as a
compafriot TO two gentlemen whom found
there drinking glass of wine at one end OF
q large room. Blind Tom was at the other
end gyrating round in an oval dance, with
his hands hanging down like paws before his
breast, his tongue Ioliing out, and SOLDERING
in truly disgusting fashion. About the fact
of his absolute and utter idiocy there could
be no question, though have been told that
his mentality has considerably improved
since then-not an uncommon circumstance.
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The Origin of Music.
BY MONS. HELMHoLrz.


In the theory OF HelmhoItz, music en-
presses the different dispositions of the soul
by initiating the CHI aracieristic particularitiss
of movement In space, and by thus translat-
ing the forces and impulses that produce the
movement. While he admits that il may
have been at first only an imitation of the
instructive modulations of the voice corre-
spending with the different states Of the
mind, he does not consider this fact contra
dictory TO his definition, for the nalu-
raj processes of vocal expression are
capable of being traced back 10 the same
elements. Rhythm and accentuation ex-
press directly the rapidly and vIvacity of
corresponding psychical movements; a We
hement effort causes the voice 10 rise; the
desire to produce an agreeable impression
on another person prompts US to select a
pleasant tone; and thus the efforts TO initiate
the involuntary modulaiions of the voice, to
enrich and make more expressive the recita-
ton of words, may very probably have
guided our ancestors in seeking out the means
for musical expression"
This is probably the real origin of music;
and it is in this direction we should look in
investigating its nature.
Two elements closely connected, but quite
different and having each its peculiar func-
ton, may be distinguished in The analysis of
spoken languege-the intonation and the
articulation of the emitted sound No doubt
they are the Interpreters of the two great
human faculties of intelligence and feel
ing. Speech, then, is a complex physi-
illogical resultant, the double image of a
double inner condition. The elements it rep
resents cannot be conceived as isolated from
each other, any more than we can conceive a
human organization pure intelligence. We
all know the important part intonation plays
in conversation, and how by it the general
sense, the whole expression OF the spoken
words, may be varied indefinitely.
Having thus found the origin of music in
the imitation of these instructive modula-
tions of speech, it should be easy to draw
from this an exact idea of Its nature; for,
without doubt, to read verse well, to deciaim
with warmth and conviction, is only to per-
form in advance the work OF the musician.
We have now a whole class OF musical
phrases which are only exaggerations of
spoken inionations; they are our recitatives.
The music OF uncultivated peoples is mostly
recitative; 30 also was a large part of the
music Of the middle ages. The rules and
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rHE nEAurIFUL LAND OF MOB.

Come cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear
Your head like the golden rod
And We will go sailing away from here
To the beautiful Land of Nod
Away from life's worry and hurry and furry,
Away from LIES shadow and gloom,
We will float OFF together to world OF fair weather,
Where blossoms are always in bloom
Just shut up your eyes and fold your hands
Your hands likes leaves of a rose
And we will go sailing to those far lands
That never an atlas shows
On the North and West they are bounded by rest,
On the South and East by dreams,
Ills the country ideal where nothing is real.
But everything only seems.
Just drop down the curtain of your dear eyes
Your eyes like the bright bluebell-
And we will sail out under star-ltt skies
To the land where :he fairies dwell.
Down the river of sleep our bark VIII sweep
Till 1t reaches the magical isle
Which no man has seen. bdt where all have been,
And there will pause awhile
will con you q song as we noat along
To that shore that is blessed by God.
Then, no for that fair land we're off for that rare
land,
The beautiful Land of Nod.
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what the Cell Can Do.

Water, earth salts and the gases-the raw
materials which the plants suck up-sre
changed within the cells into starch and su-
gar, gum and woody fiber, albumen and wax,
oil and resin, into powerful medicines and
deadly poisons. The simplest plant possesses
an art which The most skillful chemist has
not been able TO learn from it. 1t is true
that the chemist can arti6cialIy prepare in
his laboratory many of the substances which
the plant-cell likewise produces; he can con-
vert the starch of the potato into the sugar
that gives the wine-grape its sweetness; this,
again, he can transform into the fruit-acids
which, in connection with the sugar, give
the berries their fresh and agreeable
taste; he can even produce the favor of the
fruits from the fusel-oil which he obtains by
the fermentation of the sugar. He can make
the oil of bitter almonds from beuzoic and
formic acids; he can, with as good art, imi-
tate the pungent taste OF the pepper, and the
biting one oil the mustard-seed, End the mar
cotic poison which only the nightshade has
hitherto prepared for the healing OF sore
eyes. He can produce from the sap OF hrs
the crystal-needles OF the vanilla, for which
a Mexican orchid has heretofore been
obliged to give up its pods; from the distil-
lation of wood he obtains a smoky fluid, from
which he procures salicylic acid, for the
production of which the flowers OF the
meadow-sweet or the bark tissues of the
WAiOW WcIC ACtuiC0J oHu
this he also makes the ink-coloring gallo
acid, which formerly only a little wasp
knew how to draw out by Its sting from the
cells of the oak, and The aroma of the wood
ruff. He has made the work Of the cells in
the madder-root superauous, for he has fab
ricated its costly dyes, along with hundred
other splendid pigments, out of tar-oil and
stone-coal, and is now on the point Of taking
its work away from the indigo plant by
arti6cially producing indigo. Eut
raw material which has at some
time been brought forth out of
the laboratory of living plant-cell always
lies at the foundation Of all these manipu-
lations of the chemist, wonderful as they are.
And, Notwithstanding the immense progress
that modern chemistry has msde within the
last ten years, its art is still limited at this
point; no prospect yet exists that it will be
able, arti6cially, to produce the most impor
tant of all the substances that go TO build up
the bodies of snimals and plants, and 10
form their living cell-tissues-protoplas
sr the envelope of the plsnt-cells, the matter
of the muscles and nerves.
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The chief interest in this case lies in the
great weight of the brain, and lis high spe-
ci6c gravity, in relation to the highly gifted
intellectual power exhibited by the individ-
ual during life. AS this brain weighed very
nearly sixty ounces, it exceeds that of all
others usually quoted, with the exception
only of Cuvier's, which weighed sixty-four
and half ounces, and that of DR.. Abercrom-
bic, which weighed sixty three ounces. Sir J,
Y. Simpsons brain weighed ffty-four ounces,
and that of Agassiz 53.4 ounces. Ii is we'll
known that the average weight of the adult
male brain is under Fifty ounces. The spe-
cifc gravity of the brain / examined wss
1.049, aud this is "a high as any recorded.
From Prof. Athens work / find that the
average specific gravity of the brain is
1.036, and the highest specific gravity of the
densest part of brain ever taken by Prof.
Aiken, or any one else, ] believe, is 1049
The weight of the brain in this case was, in
the first instance, taken by The orderly cor
poral in charge of our microscope room,
and recorded by him on the blackboard in
the mortuary. / Immediately verified its
accuracy by weighing the organ myself, and
L also verified the correctness OF the weigh
ing machine. The specific gravity was taken
very carefully. Surgeon Major Hogg, Army
Medical Department, was present at the
time. The average cranial capacity of tn e.
adult male head ia, bslieve, about ninety
cubic inches. Cuvier's ia reported to have
been about lis. In the case which / now
record it must have been about los. Il
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HIDIE FIRST.

If die first. dear love,
Ny mournful soul made free,
Shall sit in heavens high portal,
To wait and watch for thee
To wait and watch for thee, love.
And through the deep, dark space
To peer with human longings,
For thy believed face
Mid all the stars of heaven,
One only shall see,
The earth-stsr of my passion,
Half heaven for holding thee
All heaven for holding thee, love:
And brightest OF the spheres.
By thy dear smile iIlumized,
Or hallow'd by thy tears.
If die first, dear love,
feel that this shall be,
For heaven will not be heaven
Until it's shared with thee
Until it's shared with thee, love.
IlI finger at the gate,
Or be thy guardian angel,
To teach thee how to wait.
And when thine hour shall come.
And through the yielding night
see thy happy spirit
Upsoarfng robed In Light,
Mine shall go forth to meet thee.
And, through tn eternal door.
Pass in with thee, rejoicing,
Made one, forsvermore.
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A Reporler,s Romantic Career.

DIR. George " Wiener, who died at Dem
yer, Col, few days ago, and who was re-
porter on the st. Louis WsstIicke Posi-, was a
native of Baltimore, where he graduated al
the university with the highest honors,
taking the Peabody medal for his proficiency
10 the general branches. From Baltimore
he went to a medical institution in Virginia
and graduated as a physician, returning to
bis native place subsequently, and establish
ing himself in his chosen profession. After
devoting two years TO active prsciice as an
ocuIist, he visited Europe and completed his
education at Vienna, Dresden and Leipzig,
in all of which places he succeeded In taking
high honors. At the university OF the last
named city he secured the appointment OF
assistant to Prof. Crone, who 10 one OF the
greatest eculists of the present day. Becom-
ing home-sick, he returned TO his native city,
Baltimore. There he established himself as
a specialist, his specialties being the eye and
ear, and was growing into heavy practice
when an event occurred thst changed bis
course of life. A gentleman, whose
eyes he had treated in Europe sue
cessfully, died and left him his entire
fortune of about $4,000, disinheriting his
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lures are the growth of modern times.
This conception of music as the language
of sensibility permits us to explain the char
acterislic features of its action We must
consider, first, that this language, like its
twin sister, the language Of ideas, has suf-
fered progressive evolution, and has with
us reached a great perfection, and conse-
quently a great completely In its laws
and processes. Among primitive peoples
of lew ideas, whose feelings show
few variations of shade in expression, music
is almost wholly confined to a few moduls-
lions expressive of the principal divisions Of
Joy, sorrow, and warlike ardor.
with Its rehnements, has pro-
dueed q music that has grown constantly
richer in shades and means of expression, 10
the point which has been reached by the
great masters of our sge.
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their shifting 6reside in America. Looming
sfar through the mists of time, the little
fact had became a gigantic vision. Yes,
here 1t was in miniature, all that he had
dreamed of; q palace OF four feet high.
"You have the key to this palace" said
Alice; sit has waited-that 3, its secret and
precious chamber has-for you to open it
these 800 years Do you know how to find
that secret chamber"
Middleton, still in that dreamy mood,
threw open an inner door of the cabinet, and
applying the old-fashioned key at his watch
chain to a hole in the mimic pavement with
in, pressed one Of the moszics, and immedia-
tely the whole floor of the apartment sank
and revealed receptacle within. Alice had
come forward eagerly, and they both looked
into the hiding-piace, expecting what should
be there. II was empty They looked into
each others faces with blank establishment.
Everything had been so strangely true and
so strangely false up to this moment that
they could not comprehend this failure
at the last moment. 1t was the
straugest, saddest jest 1t brought Middleton
up with sush sudden revulsion that he grew
dizzy, and the room swan round him and the
cabinet dazzled before his eyes. 1t had been
magnifed to 8 palace; it half dwindled down
to lIliputian size; and yet, up till now, it had
seemed 10 contain in lis diminutiveness, all
magnitude. This last moment had utterly
subverted it; the whole great structure seemed
to vanish. ''Seel here are the dust and ashes
of it!' observed Alice, taking something that
was indeed only pinch of dust out of the
secret compartment. "There is nothing else." "
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
DIR. Holmes, in 1864, when a part of the
DOiiUer Romance was published, said what is
eminently as true of this fragment as it was
OF that, that ''the hand of the dead master
shows itself on every line" "That limpid
flow of expression" he added. "never labor
ing, never ahallow, never hurried nor uneven,
nor turbid, but moving on with tranquil
force, clear to the depths of its profoundest
thoughts, shows itself with all Its con.um-
mate PROJECTIONS" Every line that Hsw-
thorne completed did indeed bear the mark
of M aster hand. But here sgaiu, as in the
cases of the Dollrer and the Septimus, readers
will find forcible reminder of the solemn
truth that Longfellow spoke in his Coocord
poem, written just as Hawthorne was laid at
rest in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery:
"Ah, who shall lift the wand Of magic power,
And the lost clew regain?
The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower
Unfinished must remaini"
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SCIENTIFIC IDEAS
BY HeImhOltz on the Origin Of Music, by
B0ileau on the Weight Of the
Human Brain,
BY Siemens on the By-Pr0ducts OF Coal
Burning, and by COhn on What
the Cell Can Do.

From the Popular Science Monthly, one of the
noblsst publications of our era and one that
should find its way into every household, we
make the following extracts. They will moi
satisfy the reader, only whet his appetile'
for the fuller measure of profound inquiry
and reflection Of which the magazine is full
every month
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Mas KATE AIKIre , v..I,t. ;,

Mrs. KATE Atkins. a wealthy LADY of
Pttsburg, Pa, writes; Rich food and high living
night parties fashionable dressing and me ceH
eral frivolity of high life. had been affecting nv
health quite seriously. l commenced 1sin9
Browns Iron Bitters, and now i am as lively as y
young girl. and excel them all In endurance, II Is
more refreshing than champagne and lis strenetb-
ening effects are lasting"
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INSURANCE.
NOTICE.

THE FIRM OF MURPHY & MI RPHY is this
Il day dissolved By mutual consent B. y. Aur
phy retiring j. J. Murphy assumes the assets and
liabilities and Wilcontiaue the General Insui ance
business under the nrm name at No. 8 Madison
street
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-10-13

The following instruments were filed
at the county clerks office yesterday:
The Union Pacific r. r. Co. to |. T.
Oleson, warranty deed; lot No. l in
block 300; consideration $50.
The Union Pacific r. r.. Co. to |. f.
Oleson, warranty deed; lot No. 2 in
block 300; consideration $40.
Edward C.. David to John Morrison,
warranty deed; lots l and 2 block 800;
consideration S1,575.
John London to A. T. Rabbit, min
ing deed; all right and title in the Sun
rise Extension, in the Platte Canon
mining district.
John London Ct al to Albert T. Bah
bitt, mining deed; all right and title to
Sunrise mine, Platte Canon mining
district; consideration $50, 900.
John G. Baird to John r. Mahoney,
warranty deed; lots Nos, II, 10, IA, 10,
16, II, Is, 10, 20, 81 and %, in block
No. 466; consideration 500.
John r. Mahoney to VIM. Kemmer,
warranty deed; lots Nos. u, 10, IA, 10,
IGand II, in block 4G6; consideration
nominal.
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A party of ten were passengers in the
Kansas Pacific Pullman car west-bound
yesterday afternoon, en- route to Puget
Sound and various points in the ex-
IRENE northwest. Prominent in the
party were Mr.. and Mrs. Robert f.
Strahorn, Mr.. Roberts, (Mr. Strahorn's
uncle) and his wife, Assistant General
Passenger Agent Sam Jones, of the U.
p, and his wife, and ex-Congressman
Alex. Colwell, of Kansas. The trip is
one of business as well as pleasure, sew
eral of the members of the party being
interested in the Oregon Improvement
company.
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AMI

ORES AK Co>,EEr.- BY the nh
infantry band at TT. Russell TN, alter
noon at $3.50. Program
|. German Army March, 900. Nolyt.
,. Selection from "Eruani" .Verdy.
3. Mazurka Autumn Flowers"
Parlow.
Miss Wilson.
o.. selection from "FatinilZa" .Seyyre.
.. Garotte I~.'ingenue''
Arditi.
CHAS. SCHwAAB,
Chief Musician.
SOMETHING NEw:-The good people
of Greeley have been enjoying Il basket
social, and the Tribune thus describes
the novel entertainment. Baskets Of
uniform size and style will be filled by
the ladies and with a lunch for two.
The name of each lady will be placed
in the basket she has prepared. These
baskets will then be sold to the gentle
men who are the highest bidders.
After the caskets are all sold the re-
spectiye wner will ascertain the name
Of the lady who has prepared the basket
owned by each, and with her partake
of the luncheon" Music, literary ex-
ercises and social amusemcnts are
added as a dessert and a fine time is
the invariable result-except to that
unfortunate young man who can only
be pleased by Il particular basket.
THE SHERIDAN BALL-The Sheri-
dams are making preparations for a
most enjoyable time at their ball at
Library hall on the 31st, inst, Firemen's
balls in this city are invariably success
full and the effort of the Carlin boys
will be no exception.
PANToMIME To-NIGHT-This even
ing we will be favored with the Andrews
81 Stockwell's Ideal Pantomime and
Star Specially company, a very large
organization composed of pantomlmic,
specially and spectacular artists. In
the pantomime department the famil-
lar names of Andy Morris, the clown,
Ida'Laussey, the graceful columbine,
Dan'l Mccarthy, the mirth provoking
p~antaloon and numerous other celebri-
ties appear. The specially dep artment
is remarkably strong. The musical
genius Bernard McCreedy. the great
American juggler, Leonzo, the wonder
full c%alisthentic and antipodian artists,
the Morosco Bros, and the eccentric
and witty Dutch comedian Will II.
Bray, the handsome and bewitching
lady song and dance and skipping rope
artist May Smith, the gymnastic mar
vel Frank Monroe, The Moore's Chas.
and Clara, with their marvelously
educated troupe of performing dogs.
This company has grand scenery and
magnificent costumes which are shown
to good advantage in the spectacular
department.
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A BRUTAL MURDER !
An unprovOked Murder of Starlight Bros.
Bookkeeper at Fort Fetterman by
a Drunken Cowboy.
Attempting Escape, in Making Another
Cowboy Give Him His Horse, He
Shoots Him Also.

Special Dispatch TO THE LEADER.
Fort Fetterman, Wyo., Oct. I2.-
At $3.50 this afternoon J. II. Capps, a
cowboy in the employ of Starlight Bros.
shot and instantly killed Richard p.
Elgin, Il well known ~bookkeeper for
Starlight Bros, while the latter was
standing at the counter in the store of
Altman & Webel. Caps was erazed
from drinking, and it is said that he
snapped his pistol at another cowboy
earlier in the afternoon and left the
camp, a short distance below here,
with the avowed intention of killing
somebody, and, as he said, Ito get
even for the wrongs done him and get
his name up"
There were no words between him
and Elgin and the shooting was entire
ly unprovoked. 1t is not known that
there ever had been a quarrel between
them.
Immediately after the shooting Capps
mounted a horse and fled in the direc-
ton of the Platte river bridge, but was
too intoxicated to retain his seat and
fell off the horse. He reached the
bridge on foot, and was trying to in
duce a man whom he met there to get
him a horse, when Michael Regain, a
cowboy, came up on horseback, on the
way to the post. Capps lourished his
revolver and ordered Regain to turn
back, saying he chad killed George
Starlight and others and would kill him
(Regan) if he did not obey him;'' and
upon Regain starting his horse forward,
Capps fired, inficting a dangerous
wound in the groin.
Parties started instantly in pursuit
of the murderer, and shortly afterward
captured and brought him back to the
post guard-house, where he now lies in
irons.
A coroner's jury was empannelled
this evening by ]. D. O'Brien, justice
of the peace, which rendered a verdict
to the effect that Elgin came to his
death from a bullet fired from a re-
volver in the hands of j. H. Caps.
A doctor has been summoned from
Laramie City to attend to Mr.. Regan,
who lies at the hotel here in a critical
condition.
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A glance at the county records will
discover the brief record of the transfer
of the Sunrise mine in the Platte Canon
mining district to Col. A. T. Babbitt,
the consideration named being $50, 900.
1t is n of the claims bonded by Mr..
Babbitt for the Shelter company, and
upon it now the company have a score
or more of men at work. The transfer
is one of those items of interest in the
first stages of a new camp, because they
mark the increase of faith in the hid
den and the accession of out
side capital to take up the work initial
ed by prospectors.