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Show air.t-ricau tourist can take a peep at it lor a few centimes. It lormeily belonged j to Pa.iniiii, tlie gte.it viuhuist. anJ at j tint siht meiely presents the appeal- ance uf a misshapen wooden shoe, lis j history is curious. During the winter i f J lSHl I'agatiini was living in a mansion ! tie s.inta called Lea Neotliermes, 4 Kur e'e U Victoiia. One dav a large ! was biouijlit here bv the Norm t idv cM,-Sence, cM,-Sence, on opeums whkh he loiind inclosed in-closed two inner boxes, and wmpped carelnlly in several folds of tissue paper, a wooJen shoe and a letter stating that the Writer having heard much ol tlie wonderful genuis ut the violinist, bez-etl bez-etl as a proof ol his devotion to tmix that Paganini would play on the oddly constructed instrument inclosed. At thsi Pagini felt this to be an impertinent imper-tinent same, and mentioned the Ucts, with some show of temper, to his Ineud, tlie Chevalier de Barde. Tlie latter took tlie shoe to a violin maker, who convened conven-ed it into a lemaikahly sweet tuned instrument. in-strument. Paijiiiiiii was picssed to tiv the shoe violin in public. He not only did so, but performed npon ;it some of his most difficult fanlasic, which facts, in the hand writing cf the violiuisi.ate now to be seen on the cuiious violin. A WONDERFUL SUOE SHAPED VIO UN. .The P.nis Hj;aio, announces the sale ol one ol tlie most curious violins known to the music faucieis o. the world. It N now on exhibition 111 Paris, wticit die |
