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Show Stradlvavlaa. We are always glad to pick up any Items relating to the eminent Stradiva-rius Stradiva-rius and his fiddles. There is a dispute pending in the court of sessions, - Edinburgh, Edin-burgh, upon the merits of which we would not breathe a syllable, even though we had an opinion to breathe; but, in the course of a prolonged, Inquiry, some interesting in-teresting details have oome out. The plaintiff is a wholesale fish salesman. Music has always been associated with the sea and often with fish. Tho story of Amphiou recurs to every mind. The plaintiff bought a "Stradivariua" seven years ago, which he now repudiates upon tho ground that several inches of the rim are not genuine. In support of his grievance various experts ex-perts have been called, who enlightened the Edinburgh jury upon things iu general gen-eral connected with Stradivariua. They have learned in particular that he was an "oeceutrio genius" who never made fiddles fid-dles "one after another r11 alike" this information, wo should think, must have been rather embarrasbing than sustaining sustain-ing to the good men in their responsible position. As for the particular instrument instru-ment in question, its belly was made by Stradivariua, and the varnish on the back was imparted by tho same immortal hand. About tho other parts or limbs we aro not informed, excepting "tho left side top," which emphatically "was not that of Strad." Another expert denounced de-nounced the liberties so often taken with this grand name. It must bea very poor specimen aaj badly "doctored ' that sells for less than 460. The population of Edinburgh have already picked up a great deal of miscellaneous information about fiddles in the course of the trial. London Standard-Modem Standard-Modem physiological, research proclaims pro-claims sleep to be the result of a certain amount of blood being abstracted from tho brain, to lie quiescent, if not dormant, dor-mant, in certain channels and vessels, which during the waking period are apparently ap-parently empty, or at least very flabby, and in a condition, as it were, of negation. nega-tion. In proof of thia view it is a well known fact that good, healthy, restful sleep rarely if ever takes place when the J--d is fuiljpfblood. |