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Show He Iuvented the Calliope. There is a kindly old gentleman in Springfield to whom tho trumpet like notes of the calliope or steam piano on circus day bring a strange medley of triumph and grief. This man is tho inventor in-ventor of the instrument, J. C. Stoddard, Stod-dard, who lives on tho Advent camp ground. He never ties of telling how forty years ago he kept the common in Woroester black with people all day long the glorious Fourth with his novel instrument, in-strument, and how he was swindled out of the profits by a stock, company. He has in his possession a characteristic article ar-ticle by N. P. Willis, describing his gensationa on flint hearing the calliope. Springfield (Mass.) Homestead. |