The sun., 1889-02-07
THAT WONDERFUL coLoRED BOY.
Here Is Frishtrul Infant Who Never
Foygets What He Hears.


Here Is a Frightrul Infant Who Never
FoSgets What He Hears.
A little mite Of q blind colored boy stood
on a table in one of the Astor house parlors
yesterday afternoon and put to the blush the
learning of lot of gentlemen by very
meager sample of what Ire knows The boy
il only years and months old His name
is Cesar Moore and he was born on a farm In
Waco, Tex His parents are laboring people,
who have one other boy and two girls One
evening when Oscar was only year old no
sat in a chair listening to his brother and
sisters who were studying the multiplication
table One of them said:
-Four times twelve are flfty-eight."
"Forty eight" corrected Oscar.
His mother had mover heard him speak be-
fore, and she began questioning him. Imag-
inc her surprise when she found that Oscar
was able to repeat lot of statements he had
heard at odd times, and was hborally sup
piled with a store Of various kinds of infor'
nation. His fame spread, and recently Oscar
was turned over to Mr Fl. p. N. Gammel, of
Austin, who will be his guardian until he Is
20 years old
1t soon became clear that the only remark
able thing about Oscar is his memory, which
is capable of retaining everything the boy
hears He is well built, manly little follow,
with childish voice, and is as full of mis-
chief and fun Us boys of his age naturally
are He enjoyed himself hugely yesterday,
and was anxious to know if the table he
stood upon was stage, and he YVES really
having a reception. Then everybody took
turns in asking Oscar questions Here Is 9
sample of them, and of the replies, which
were given Instantly:
"How fast does rife ball mover
Zone thousand miles an hour. Is this really
a halli"
"Where is the largest bell in the woTld"
"In Moscow, Russia"
"Whcn was slavery ebolishedf"
"ln 1920"
~ said abolished"
"Oh, in 1865 thought you said when wa.
it begun"
"What is the population Of Holland ant
the Netherlands"
"Fo' million twelve thousand six hundred
n ninety three"
What is the capital Of VenezuelaF"
"Caracas. like crackers, though"
"How many languages in the worldF'
"Two thousand seven hundred and fifty"
GLOW many bones in a mans body"
Three hundred and eight know how
many there are in q woman-S09."
How many square feet in en- acref"
sin nigger1 Two"
"In an acreF'
"Forty-three thousand live hundred1
sixty Rats"
What is the population Of the UniteE
! Statcsf'
'Oh, I've got the hickups"
"What city has population Of 5o3, 1857
Chicago"
| "yEho was the second president Of tn
United StatesF'
John AdcnR"
1.-The 6fthf'
"James Monroe"
''The thirtcenthF'
! 'Millard Fillmore"
| "The twenty -thirdF'
Oscar Moore Ho! hal heel"
Little Oscar grew sarcastic, and asked:
"You are sure that's the right answer, ar
your On being assured that it was, b
would reply: well, guess So"
Oscar counted from one to ten in Chinese
! Spanish, Latin, French and Welsh.
Count tom one to ten in Danish"
| ~ can't" b. answered. "IIl count fror
one to twenty: there is no ten in Danish"
Then Oscar sc1A several songs in Englis
and one in German He is strong on dates
the names and population of oil the cities i
the world, the weight Of any given quantit
OF corn, -four, wheat, copper, silver, gol
and iron, and hundreds of other things tha
not one man in 10000 knows He enjoy
answering questions. 1t seems to require n
mental effort at ell. Mr.. Galnnel does nc
| yet know what he will do with Oscar, but
is likely that he will be launched into publ
| ife.-New York Sun.