i A MUSICAL MELANGE RAM HAIL was written in intha the spring of I 1 1798 s 98 when war with france seemed inevitable A is being gotten up in england for the son of balfe the com coin polder po iler now an inmate of a london poorhouse dunco M ls recent tour in england he be had a piano in the special saloon car in which he traveled and p practiced practised upon this during his bis journeys A ant WHITER in the ninth century asserts that a whip was then preserved in church achurch as a relic with which pope gregory the great was accustomed to corre correct ethis his choir when they were out withal and failed in the notes so mayr MANY musical manuscripts have been submitted to the national conservatory atory of music in new york in the competition for prizes offered some months ago that dr dvorak is compelled to say that tho the announcement af prizes cannot be made before march OTIS T MABON has been surprised in examining a large collection of american aboriginal musical instruments to find that not one wag wa peculiar peculiars pec to women and that those of the men were never played upon by the women I 1 ile he is seeking fuller information on tho sub subject jeci popular science monthly