East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-01-13

TAKEN UP.-Came into the premises
of the subscriber on or about the 10th
inst, a small, scrawney, starved, man
gy, crop-eared, yellow-kivered, dog
purp.
He's gentle, he is kind, he's got no tail behind,
He don't look much like old Dog Tray,
Or any other dorg, /" that's what's the
matter" We have ruined two butch
or shops in trying to provide the little
innocent full meal, but he don't APP
pear to be entirely satisfied, and like
Blair, over the river, continues to
whine and whine. If he was feline,
we could without danger to our feel
ings, create catastrophe which would
soon rid US of his lamentod presence,
but being of the canine persuasion,
and property, by the statute, we fear
that in porforating his golden fleece
and penetrating his cadaverou.s car
cass with the wee bit of lead necessa-
ny to stop craving which cart loads
of beef cannot satisfy we may do vio-
lence to the feelings, sentiments, af-
fections and vested rights of some
over-sonsitive or dogmatic individual,
whose purpose was not to send us a
purp but whom accident has bereft OF
faithful though Unsuitable compan-
ion, hence this notice. If the afore-
said owner win notify us whore he
abides, vegetables or travels,
His faithful dog shall bear him company"
Instanter. No such notification CON-
ing to hand, there will soon be dog
funeral in the Second Ward.
MUSICAL CmrIusM-We cut the
following unique and intelligent criti-
cism upon the subject of piano play
ing from q late English Christmas
story:
There is something very surprising
Il had almost said very humiliating
in the way in which music, the
most spiritual of all human arts, is
often degraded into merely mechan-
ical work, and the trick of playing
made, too evidently, trick essentially
the same in its nature as the slight
of-hand Of conjurer. We see very or
binary women play with dexterity and
accuracy that charm their hearers,
pieces Of music to compose which has
tasked all the powers of the greatest
masters. They execute the most diff.
ficult passages and the most brilliant
movements without any apparent eff.
fort, and people cry, "What a won.
derful playerp' And all the while
these women may be only clever
trained automatic, as soulness and un.
appreciative of what they do as Mr.
Babbage's calculating-machine, and as
unlike real musicians as that machine
is unlike land unfit to be) chancellor
of the exchequr. Their criticisms OF
music would probably be the perfec
ton of absurdity or common place.
They have never paused to consider
the meaning of what they play, OF
asked what was intended to be con
veyed by the grand passages they ex
ecute SO readily. Sorrow, JOY, anger
love, disappointment, ecstacy, despair
every emotion that thrills our NOR
tai bodies was felt, it may be, by th'
mighty master as he swept the chord
and brought out these melodies. TX
the player it is all mere wrist and fin
ger work. And yet so wonderfully cor
rect is the mechanical performance
that, as the electric current fashe
through and gathers strength from
the passive insulator, to the nearer al
these passions may still come out ant
live again, evolved by her who nei
ther feels them or knows them.
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