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Show NOTES FOR THE MUSICIANS. Musical notes, as now tisedj were Invented In-vented in 138Q. The best parchment used for banjos is made out of the akin of the wolf. The latest musical phenomenon in Paris is a monkey that plays the violin. Out of fifty-two artists who have been singing this season at Covent Garden Gar-den Italian opera only four are genuine Italians. , Ebjtest GtrnjEAtD, the French composer, com-poser, according to Aurellan School, his eulogist, added several years to his life by persistently declining to open letters let-ters addressed to him. The only woman doctor of music in Great Britain, except the princess of Wales, is Annie Wilson Patterson. She studied Greek, Latin, French, Italian and Keltic before, she was fifteen, and became musical director of the Dublin Choral union after a course in the P.oyal Irish academy of music. ' He Fasts for Fane. The Guthrie State Capital says that a boy in the Wichita schools has been suspended for reading the following essay on "Pants:" "Pants are made for men and not men for pants. Women are made for men and not for pants. When a man pants for a woman and a woman pants for a man they are a pair of pants. Such pants don't last. Pants are like molasses; they are thinner in hot weather and thicker in cold. The man in the moon changes, his pants during dur-ing the eclipse. Don't you go to the pantry for pants, you might be mistaken. mis-taken. Men are often mistaken in' pants. Such mistakes make breeches of promise. There has been much discussion dis-cussion as to whether pants is singular or plural. Seems to us when men wear pants they are plural, and when tiic-v don't wear pants it is singular, lien go 1 on a tear in their pacts, and it is all right, but when the pants gu oat tear it all wrong." |
