Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-03-27

A Pooh RULE THAT WON'T WORK Born
WAYS. Paris, FEB. 2SA, I556.-All Of lis
have been more or less annoyed by ardent
musicians. don't mean the gentry who foot
away at a trombone or eornet- a-piston, during
the day and night. That is not an annoyance,
but tortuIe-and in such cases homicide be-
comes excusable. The piano is the aft elton
or, perhaps l should say, the yoitug lady
who lives i'll the same house with you, who is
''taking lessons, which her professor enjoins
it upon her to practice sat least two hours be-
fore breakfast. is such. Who is there, among
the luckless and unfortunate of your readers,
who have not had terrible experience in this
sort of thing: have bit Of consolation for
them. The business is not confined to our
own blessed country it exists even in France
Listen and judge The sleeping apartments
of two gentlemen, belonging TO different
grades Of the upper classes, joined each other.
NJ. de V passed his nights in amusing
himself at his club, and came home TO go to
bed at five o'clock in the morning, NJ. de
P, his neighbor. rose at six O'Clock, and,
being an enthusiastic lover of music COM
menced "practising' at the piano. This ar
rangemsnt not being precisely agreeable to N.
de ", that worthy entreated his neigh
Dor to restrain his enthusiasm until four or five
hours later in the day NJ. de p coolly
responded that his enthusiasm was Of the ma
ture of the moon gun" in the garden OF the
Palais Royal, and was ''bound to go off" at
the regular hour. The nocturnal gentleman
Appealed to neighborng Commssary of Po-
lice. He was laughed at for his pains, and
advised to go to bed at a reasonable hour. He
had lease for six years; he tried to rent also
the apartments OF the musician, but found
that he too, had agreed with the landlord for
a term of six years. That plan was, therefore,
indeteasible. Should he send the musician
challenge? Upon INJURY, he learned that
the object Of his resentment was an invalid,
and never quilted his room.
As sort of deraier resort NJ de v
caused his walls to be lined with thick mat
trasses but this did not exclude the horrible
matinal music. NJ. de v concluded to
commence the aggressive He bought an enor-
nous cor de chaSSe and made his servant keep
mp fearful din throughout the night. NJ. de
p, the piano man, cited his neigLboI
before magistrate and caused him to be fined
for a misdemeanor-b blowing the French Horn
for amusement being only permitted during
the last days Of the Carnival. M. de V
bought hammer and pounded with all his
might upon the wall. NJ. de p waited
till he and the servant were both exhausted
with their exertions, and then recommended
MS pldHOs All lnlS time NJ. ue V could
get no sleep at ALL The Hammer wouldn't
do-that was clear, The noise couldn't be
kept up long enough He must invent some
thing that would be lasting and incessant in
its din. The piano mast be forced to capitu-
late. A hand organ passed one day under
M. de Us window. He called in the
proprietor, Savoyard, and purchased the in
strument. 1t was an organ which had been
frozen during its passage across the Alps, and
had never since been tuned, NJ de v
bought a patent turn-spit, which ran eight
days without being wound up but once, and
''adaPted it, to his hand organ. When all
was ready, he put his organ close to his neigh
boris wall and set the turn spit in notion
NJ. de P stood it bravely for nineteen
hours, at the end of which time he concluded
to send a bearer Of flag of truce. He was
informed that NJ. de v had gone into
the country for eight days, and had carried
the key OF the apartment with him. AT the
present writing, the organ is in rapid motion,
and Nj. de P--->is trying to underlet his
rooms-though with small chances OF success.