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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-12-03
Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Com

Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Com
A the Annual meeting Of the WORCESTER MU-
N TUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY held
December H. 1850, the following officers elected:
PRESIDENT AND TREASURER,
FRED. WILLIAM PAINE,
DIRECTORS.
EBENEZER TORREY, Fitchburg.
PAUL WHITING, Northbridge.
JOHN w. LINCOLN, Worcester.
ANGRY HOLMAN, Bolton.
ALANSON HAMILTON, West Brookfeld
JAMES $. WOODWORTH, Worcester.
WILLIAM I. MERRIFIELD, Worcester.
DAVID LEE, Barre
The following abstract of the reports made 10 the
meeting was ordered to be published:
The amount at risk Dec. |, 1850 was Sl0,462. 1873.
The number OF polces outstanding is O,442 The
Company sustained the last year eleven partiul and
fifteen total losses amounting to $ll 1884 is which have
all been amicaby adjusted and paid The dividends
have ranged du ing the year, from 70 to 81 per cent
averaging than eighty cents on the dollars maid ne
premium, refunded to the holder of expired policies
The net cash funds of the Company, Dec. l. 1850
amounted to Sl26,96360, which is invested in Bank
Stock and Mortgages on Real Estate.
The Directors congratulate themselves and the nubc
on the above statement, which they enabled to
make at the close of another years successful opera-
tons of the old Worcester Mutual Fire Inqrrance
Company. Notwithstanding the COMPANY have cam
celled policies, and refused renew where hey had
EXPIRED during the year, of the extra haz-
ardous character Of the risks to the amount of more
than half million of dollars they have insured much
larger amount OF property than in any former YEAR
II Will be seen by this report that the cash funds of the
Company amount to nearly $12700O and that the dyi
dends have averaged than 80 per on expired
policies.
The Directors are not disposed to interfere with
oherofices dictate to people where they shal insure
their property This Office takes but the safest
risks-s confined the County of Worcester in its
operations and publishes at the close of each year an
account OF its standing and condition.
FRED. VIM. PAINE, Pres
ANTHONY CHASE, sec'y
Worcester, Dec. 1850. dec24
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Peoples Mutual Fire Insurance
CnETT,s $1,000 ~e-ANS

Peoples Mutual Fire Insurance
Co11PAN X,-EF Worcester, Mass.
with a Cash Capital of over. s1on mn
, .lAo' Liable capital Of......... 100000
NsORE Buildings, Merchandise and Personal Prom
1erty generally. both on .hg '-4- iOf-
Stock and Mutual Plan.
ted Stock ur Mutual COMPANY va N0'o ~
ne nIst Giass oi DIV ellirg Houses, and their at
tach-nenls Farm Buildings aad their contents. NAV he
insured iof one or five years. upon the Stock principle
d tAe same rate as charged the Mulua deparmeIt
Appilcalot Tor insurance may be made at the Com
paht once in Barnngton's Block, cornerof Front
and Main streets or TO any of its AGENTS IN
o. HARRINGTON. .......!. Sacrs,.r,
DIRECTORS.
e. H Hemenway, "A Williams
henry Chaplin, Jonathan Iutber
JDseph fTatt, Pullman W Taft,
Horatio n. Tower, E. L. Brigham
Seseph boyoeI, Edward Earle
James Ii. WALL Jonathan Warren crae,
Edwin Eaton, Henry A. Denny ;sicsst1r
Charles P. Bancroft
Worcester, October !, 1851. oct lwtf
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latest designs, and superior workmanship Centre Ia
bles and Side Tables, with without Marble tops
Marble Pier Slabs and Brackets French Mirrors, in
rich gilt frames, and every other article appertaning to
well furnished Drawing room. Painted Chamber
Sets French Bedseads Marble Top Dressing Blu
reans Marble Top Washstands Sinks Gard Tables !;
What-NOts Hat Stands; Antique and Fancy Chairs
Portable Desks Book Cases together with large
assortment of medium and low-prced Furniture, mace
in thorough and substantial manner. Painted Window
Shades and Fixtures Palm Leaf and Hnsk Mattresses;
Looking Glasses Looking Glass Plate, and every ar.
tcle usually found in the most Furniture Ware
Rooms. Best Hair Mattresses of our own manufacture
always on hand Upholstery Goods OH hand, and Uphcl-
stery work done or repaired Furniture repaired Pul
pit Furniture and Pew Cushions furnished to order
Office and Counting Room Desks, Show Cases, Book
Cases and all kinds and descriptions of Furniture made
to order, of good MATERIAL and warranted TO give sat
isfaction Mahogany Board and Yeneers always on
hand and for sale In short il is intention TO make
this establishment all that the city vicinity desire
in order to furnish their dwellings in fashionable and
suitable manner, and at reasonable prices.
N. B.-IIaving purchased the exclusive right ofIInk
eys Patent Elastic Bottomed Bedsteadsio the County
of W0rcesterand having tested by the sale ofupwards
of 1000 the past year, confidently recommend il as
the best Bedsead now in USE and only need be seen
or tried TO be universally adopted.
mar24d TABER g. LAWRENCE.
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Butchering Establishment for Sale.

buCcnerlng ESCaDH6nmenC Tor oale
III HE subscriber wishes 10 sell his place where he
i now lives in rear Of the Tavern yard of WIN b.
Hatch, in Leicester together with his business and a
the appurtinances belonging thereto. | do business
OF from fifteen TO twenty thousand dollars year The
buildings in good repair, and convenient for the
business There is on the premises good house. calc.
lated for two families. barn, 62 by 30, end Ct
which is occupied for Slaughter House-a good Cear
under the whole barn for making manure. building
80 by As, occupied for Boot shop building 80 by
10, occupied for Paint shop.
A part of the purchase money can remain Oh mort
gage ifdesired VIM BOND.
Leicester, June "a, 1851. je25-dwlf
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GPApplicatons for Assurance may be made at the
Office of the Company, SO MAIN STREET, in WoRcEs-
TER, and to the Agents in the towns and sections of
New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and Ohio.
CLARENDON HARRIS, Secretary
Worcester, Feb s. 1851. apr23-wtf
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FOUND At LASTi
Jillson's Compound Vegetable Syrup.

VAASon OOMpounu t6g6CdDl6 syrup,
FOR PURIFYING lie BLOOD
MPURIIY OF the Blood is doubtless the cause of
L most diseases. This Syrup designed to restore if
to healthy condition. II has been Of great benefit i'm
those cases where fair trial has been given to it. as nm.
merous testimonials will show. 1t is presented to the
pubic as cure for Nervousness, General Debility
Indigestion, Liver Complaints Colds, Coughs, Con.
snmptye Diseases, and it eradicates all kinds OF humors
such as Scroinla, Salt Rheun, Fimples on the face
Ulcers Botches Biles, Ring Worm, or letter Efysip'
elias or ST. AntbOny's Fire Ii is also IL Camplete rem
edS Tor all diseases arising from nudcious use of
mercury, and ttteiy reHoUateS the system.
NO person who values health after becoming aconain.
ted with its virtues, will remain long wi bout it, Pre-.
pared only by C.JILLSON Woonsocket X l.
u For sale in Worcester by Spur d Sibey No
l4O Vain street, Draper & Clark os. 1O3 lbs and lO7
Front street, Taft ~ Harrington, and by Agents
throughout theNew England States. my6-dly
G. Newton, M. D., & f. H. Kelley, M. D..
ANlNG effected co-partnership in business will
IL from this date, prosecute The practice of
Medicine and Surgery,
Under the firm OF NEwToE & KELLEY. The increas
ing professional duties devolvng on DR. Newton have
rendered II imperative for him to engage partner in
business; ana ne has accordingly associated with him.
sell one emmehty qualified to disseminate the prjnci-
pies OF the liberal school of medicine
II Is due TO Dr. Kelley to say, that he has enoyed
the most ample facilities for thoroughly acquainting
himself with both the Old and the New system of pruc
iice-io learning the imperectons of the one and The
superiority of the other To him more especallv win
be committed the department of Surgery as his on
pcrtmiles to qualify himself for This branch have been
preennent; and his experience and skill Ms nm onero
tor, entltle him TO more than ordinary favor
~ Iumors Hydrocele Fistue Hernia Diseases of
lne Eye ana Ear, &c. will be scientifically and sue
cessfully treated ' w
Worcester June 10, 1851 ie19-dvv1v
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FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN
q Lot of Chandeliers for Rnrninn Oil

nNE large one, with twelve burners and two small
Oones with four each. FourFountan Chan
daliers, with four burners each Three do with three
burners EACH and large Entry Lamp with glass Ian
tern. lot of SIDE Lamps and Fixtures together with
Chi nneys and shades for the above. ready for use
ing Fluid nearly new and four Bracket Burneis ogeth
er win shades complete.
Inc above will he sold heap, for tine reason that the
CIV nave introduced tine city building For
iurtner particulars INQUIRE Oi DAVID GLEASON (,!iv
Messenger. the c ~ Hall. seni.dao
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For further Information regarding these valuable Medi-
eincs Pamphlet be had Of the agents. where testimony
from the highest quarters will be found among which are
letters from
IIoN. MARSHALL p WILDER Boston, Mass
HoS.JAMES G. CHURCHILL, Portland Me-
ENOCH PATTERSON, ESQ, Boston, Mass
carr. CIIAs. II. COLE, Rindge N. H.. late of New
Bedford, Mass
EPIIiAIM MURDOCH. in, Esq, Wnchendon Mass
IRA RUSSELL VI. D.. Wmchendon, Mass.
N. KINGSBURY, NJ. d.. Temple, n II.
i. DARWIN ABELI, NJ. D., Rindge N. II.
GEO JEWETT. NJ. D.. Templeton, Mass.
REV. a. w. BURNHAM, Rindge N. II.
REv. RUFUS TILT0N, Peerboro' n. 81.
CALEB $. CARTER. ESQ, Portland, Me
GEO w. MCCLELLAN, Esq, Deputy Collector, Custom
House. Boston, Mass
WILLIAM NICHOLS. ESQ. Townsend Nrnss
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Worcester and Nashua Railroad.

Ia EE:s:;l.;:;:iE
Winter Arrangement
On and after Monday Dec. LIST, TRAINS will run az
follows:
Leave Arrive al GToton Nashua AMI
worcester nj junction at Lowell nj
6,3O aD. g l0am. 90 ain.
HOO a IA. IL 80 pm. LIS p.In
40 p.n. 30 pm. $50 pm
i. Leave Arrive al Groton
Nashua and Lowell Junction Worcester
80 am. 20 AIN. s0a.m 80 am
tl,30 am. ll.30 IN. $780, pm. 200 pm,
4.45 pm. 4.4j p.m. 5.35 PIN. ZOO D M
FITCHBURG AND WORCESTER TRAINS.
IN connection with Worcester and Nashua Trains
Leave Worcester al $50 and IL a. M and d. Is D. m.
Leave Fitchburg at 800 a. m and IL 80 and 5.45 pm
Passengers by the Middle Trains win connect al Gro.
Lon Junction with Downward Train TO Boston No
Howard Trains on the Fchburg road passes Groon
Junction till O'Clock i. NJ
FREIGHT TRAINS daily each way between
Worcester, Gr0ton Junction. Nashua, Lowell and Fitch.
burg.
The morning train from Worcester connects with the
q Steamboat Train from New York via Notwithstanding
train into Worcester, connects with the
New York 81
Gy For connections with the other road at Worcester
GroloD junction and Nashua, see Snow Wilder's
Pathfinder and Railway Guide.
Or Through Tickets issued at Worcester for Bur
iiDgtpn, Montpelier, Wells River and White River juno
ton az The same fare by each of the different
Nashua and Fiicbbnrg. J. w. ST0WELL, supt.
aa0 Worcester, April7, 1851. asl apr5.dwtf
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EXCHANGES
MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION.
once Nos. 81 10, FOcPs Budding, SDringfeLd Ms
Il Wills Association organized October lst IS4e
ana was the rsi of the kind organized in the
United States, and is the only purely Mutual Health
Association now in operation. 1t is maaaged by its
members, and has now
An accumulated Cash Capitaio of S33 Oo0
a guaranty capital OF $4,000
Rates OF annual denosts for members under fifty
wears of aye ~ 10y
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NEW DRUG STORE.

NEW DRUG STORE.
'hh subscriber would inform the public that, for the
accommodations Of his fellow citizens in The south
a m SCUM Easery part of the city, he has opened
nig tore at the corner Of Park and Trumbul streets
anu snpphed II with an entire stock of the hest
Drugs, Medicines, and Chemicals,
suss'her win large assortment of FANCY GOODS,
suon az IRE usually kept by Druggists and that he will
pe AZ a thes ready to supply any oders in his line Of
rarllcular personal attention paid to the componi
mg ana putting up of physicians prescriptions day OF
nigh. "A g. HATES NJ /, ,nnpooo J,r
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vARNIsH vARNIsH !!

IFlsoM one OF the Oldest and best Manufactures in
Newark n j., all qualities put up in s gallon cans,
~ ~ ana Az gallon casks also, by the single gallo
!aeuto give entire Satisfaction For sale ut IIarrng-
top corner, opposite City Hall
sAML. c. WHITE Il co.
hReht ioi the manufacturers. dw3m-o2
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MEDICINES. &C.
Formerly located at cor. Of Lynde 8. Cambridge SIS.
Boston, Mass

boston, Mass,
yyTOULD inform her old patients, and such others
Y as may desire Il Try her medicines, thai, having
lately returned from a III Europe, (where they
have been since the decea,e of Mrs Mott they have
established themselves at No 259 Green street, New
York, and purpose visiting Worcester and several
other towns in Which MRS MOTT gave such general
satisfaction, and had extensive practice furnish
those medicines and be consulted their in all
complaints incident to the human Frame except those
arising from immO, atty.
MRS DRAKE wishes to impress upon the minds
of thos whom it interest, that she was carefully
educated by her Mother (the late Mrs. Mot) for the
profession and that She for Years previous her
decease, practised in conjunction with her This fact
Il be readily remembered by all patients under thsr
care in Boston AMI vicinity.
MRS DRAKE would assure tnuse persons calling on
her for vice. &C. that it will be her aim pursue the
same UPRIGHT and candid to all, for which
Mrs Mott was so celebrated and universally respected.
DR.. DRAKE (Alrs Motifs son in-law) has Tor sew
eral years devoted himself to Mrs Motifs system of
medicines and method of curing Diseases and has also
travelled with her al seasons as is well known by
all her old patients. This is mentioned assure ill.,
valid that it is not proposed introduced SYSTEM
bur one practctd by Mrs. Mott many years, giving
universal satisfaction and proving blessing TO hous-
ands when Others had failed To those unacquainted
with the nature and stem of medicines may be
proper to state that no mercury or other mineral pre-
parations are used, no hot medicines cold water;
but Preparations of
Herbs, Roots, Flowers, Vegetable & Es-
sential Oils Gums, BaIsams & simpIes,
forming in fact union of the simpes of the Materl
Medca and the Herbal Medca; therefore called Veget-
able.
To those inv lids residing distance and those who
are unable to call in person. ould that by he
ing informed by letter, through friend, the
symptoms attendant upon, mode Of attack, and the
natural tate OF the patient prescribe the
sary remedies to he used in their complaints and forward
the san with full directions by express, from New
York.
DIR. DRAKE and MRS. DRAKE will be at MR.. P.
w. WATTS TEMPERANCE EXCHANGE, neary
opposite the new Court lIouse Worces er, Mass, dur
q of atpl,
where they will be prepared 10 receive patients and
furnish Mrs. Motts celebrated Medicines. ADVICE
GRATIS IN all cases. and as moderate charges for med
iCines as formerly.
DR. DRAKE attends 10 male patients, and MRS
DRAKE 10 females and children 10 outdoor cases
TAKEN All communications should be addressed. post
paid, to city residence, 259 Green street, New
Yol where they will receive prompt attention. For
further particulars future advertisements Dr. and
Mrs. D. visit Northampton Springfield, and West
Brookield, the six days previous to their visit TO Wor
cester, in each month. sepI0 wl3t
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FASHIONABLE
FURNITURE WAREROOMS.

THE subscribers, having enlarged their
Rooms, No. $50 NaiA street, op.
poste the Central Exchange, Cup stairs)
have stocked them with rich and elegant
assortment of Furniture ofthe latest styles
Drawing rooms furnished in Rose Wood,
Black Walnut or Mahogany, upholstered
in plnah Namnsk Or IInir Elnah ~ -.
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RAILROADS.
Boston and Worcester Railroad

Boston and Worcester Railroad
"a e. zssa,..ss. .ss....s;ss,s 5z.ss.ss7%
WINTER ARRANGEMENT, Commencing
MONDAY Dec. !, 1851
PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE BOSTON, as follows;
FOR Worcester 7.S0 (and Ek) an, 2l5, q hx.)
4, Is 5,s0Ex) pm
Milford at 9.5e an. aOy
Saxopvflle NJ 500 500
Newton Sow. Tr), SIS, N. 1890. 2. l5Ow
IT,, $40, 5 Sis e SIS pm.
Iirookiue 7.s5, $50, - m. l2t, p, ~, Shell
WI TRAINS FOR BOSTON as follows:
eave Worcester abou,5, at 7S0, & lo25am.i OBS
Ex) 500 (l9.30 Ex) pr
. s s,,lonS 4. At 80 $50
Newton 90, g. $50 Nv. Trh SIS, has wv.
am;2 O0s. 500, 5.25+ (W Tr) IS, p. M
BrookIme Al Ills, {, 9 and TO- SO am; 100, 2-45,
s'a oslis ; WI ? - G. TwICHELL, supr
Fitchburg and Worcester Railroad
ia - s!::..z:.;.;;
rI1RATNs leave Worcester for Fitchburg, in connec
| uol with the Worcester and Nashua trains every
day except Sundays, at
go and II A. NJ, and AT 4lO Pm
RETuRsIso-Leave Fitchburg al
800 A NJ, I2.45 and 545 P. VI.
The shortest and most direct Railroad route between
Worcester Mass and Burlington, VT, il by the way
of Filchburg Bellows Falls and Rutland. This il
TWENTY-FIVE miles shorter than any other.
The next shorter route Is by the way Of Fitchburg.
Be ows Falls. Windsor, White River Junction, and
MONTPELIER This route is % miles shorter than any
other except the mentioned above and ii 20 mles
nearer than other route 60 all stations on the Yer
mont Central and Passun psc River Railroads.
Passengers going by either OF these routes by the mol
ming train stop Fi,chbarg an hour, dine al Bellows
Falls aud arrive at Burlington early by any other
route.
Passengers in the III O'Clock train from Worcesterstop
nj Ftchburg three honrs when they proceed to
Rutland or Mortified same day, and to Burlington the
next morning.
RETUREINC-The early train from Fitchburg arrives
In Worcester in connect with the trains for
Boston, Providence, Norwich, and New York, via.
Springfield.
Passengers from above, who arrive at Fitchburg in
the 50 train, dine and arrive in Worcester
at two o'clock. Those who arrive in the so train
take FItchburg, and arrive in Worcester in
son for the n. York train, via. Norwich
apl7-dn IVER S. PHILLIPS. President.
oil
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G. Newton, M. D., &F. H. Kelley, M. D..
Medicine and Snrgerv.

ANlNG effected a co-partnership in business will
Il A. from this date, prosecute The practice of
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BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.

Oh. there is one law above the rest,
Written in Wisdom-if there is word
That would trace as with pen Of fire,
Upon The unsullied temper of a child
Ii there is anything that keeps the mind
Open to argel visits, and repels
The ministry of l-'tis HUMAN LOVE.
God has made nothing worthy OF contempt:
The smallest pebble IN the well of truth
Has its peculiar meanings, and will stand
When mans hest monuments wear fast away.
The law ofHeaven is LOVE- and though its name
Has been usurped by passion, and protan'd
To its unholy uses through all time,
Still, the eternal principle is pure;
And in these deep affections that We feel,
Omnipotent with us. can we see
The lavish m.asure in which love is given,
And in the yearnng tenderness of child
H. every bird that sings above our head
And every creature feeding OIL the hills,
And every tree and flower, and running brook
We see how everything was made to love,
And how they err, who in world like this,
Find any thing to hate but human pride.
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A FOX'S REVENGE.

The Rev. l. Murray, in his work on Creation,
tells the following story:
"An old and respectable man of the county
of montgomery, used frequently to relate an
anecdote of circumstance which he saw. In
his youth he resided on the banks of the Hud.
son river One day he went to a bay on the
river in order to shoot ducks or wild geese.
When he came to the river he saw six geese
beyond shot He determined to await for them
to approach the shore. While sitting there,
he saw lCx come down to the shore and stand
some time and observe the geese. At length he
turned aud went INTO the woods, ana came out
with very large bunch of moss in his mnuta.
He thea entered the water very silently, sunk
himself and then keeping the moss above the
water, himself concealed, he tinated among the
geese Suddenly one Of them was drawn un-
der water, and the fox soon appeared OH shore
with the goose Oh his back. lie ascended the
bank and found hole made by the tearing up
of Il tree This hole he cleared, placed in the
goose, aud covered it with great care, strewing
leaves over it. The fox then left, and while he
was gone, the hunter nnhurcd the goose, closed
the hole, aud resolved to await the issue.
'.In about hall an hour the Iox returned with
another in company. They went di'ecil to
the place where the go"se had been buried, and
threw out the earth. The goose could not he
found. They stood regarding each other for
some time, when suddenly the second fox at
lacked the other most iuruuIy, as if offended
by tne trick of his friend. Duls''H the battle
lie shot them both"
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EVIL COMPANY. The following beautiful
allegory WAS translated from the German:
Sophronius, wise teacher, would not suf
fer even his grown up sons and daughters t"
associate with those whose conduct was not
pure aud upright.
"Dear father" sadthe gentle Eudalia to him
one day, when he forbade her, in company
with her b other to visit the volate Lucinda,
"dear father, you must think us very childish,
il you imagine that we should be exposed t"
danger by it,"
The father took in silence dead coal from
the hearth, and reached it to his daughter sit
will not burn you my child; take it
Eulalia did so. and behold! her delicate
white hand was soiled and blackened, and as it
happened her white dress also.
I'VE cannot be too caretulin handling Goals,
said Eudalia in vexaton.
"Yes, truly" said her father; ''you see my
child that Goals even if they do not burn, black
en-. So it is with the company of the vicious" :"
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HINTS For P1AxIsrs. Have your piano
forte tuned at least four times year by an ex-
perienced tuner. If you let it 60 too long with
ou, tuning, it usually becomes fiat, aud troubles
a tuner to get it to stay at concert pitch, es-
pecialIy in the country. Never place the IN,
strument against the outside wall, or in cold
damp room, particularly in country house.
There is no greater enemy to a piano.t"rte than
damp. Close tie instrument immediately alter
you practice; by leaving it open dust lmmedl-
ately fixes on the sound-board, and corrodes
the movements; and if in damp room the
strings must rust. Should the piano. forte stand
near, or opposite a window, guard if possible
against it being opened, especially on vet or
damp day When the sun is on the window,
close the blinds. Avoid putting metallic or oth,
er metals on. or in the piano.torte; such things
frequently cause unpleasant vibrations, and
sometimes iujure the instrument. The more
equal tn. temperament of the room, and the
less soft pedal is used, the better the piano will
stand in tune