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Show ;:7-Considered be(V-HS-::-At his death, Pnganini, the great violinist, left his magic violin to his native city of Genoa, but with file condition con-dition that it should remain enclosed in glass and never be played upon. A peculiarity of all wood is that as long as it is handled and used ft lives, and wears hut slightly; It Is, however, no sooner laid aside than it be ?lns to decay, and becomes the prey of In-I In-I sects. So that this wonderful violin, j which might have thrilled the world j for hundreds of years to come with its heart-searching tone, is becoming worm-eaten In its grand glass case, and soon will be nothing but a heap of worthless dust. |