The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-12-05
A New and Happy Departure in Must
cnI Circles.

A New and Happy Departure in Musi-
caI Circles.
There is in our neighborhood rich, thrifty
man, who generally has two three thousand dollars
lying idle In bank and Is always forehanded and pros
porous. Ito is n musician. II IL curious that You
sometimes meet merchant or professional man, or
IN Army or Navy onlccr, clerk or gentleman In
any other walk Of NO. who is hard up but when You
meet musician You always find him rich and pros
porous, with rows Of houses and bank stock, mort
| gagos and deeds Of trust, IN abundance.
| Thcy-and by they we mean musicians-are like
poets professors of pcnmanshp, professors OF cocu-
op, phrcnoogIsts and temperance lecturers: always
| rolling In abundance, luxury, and wealth.
And then the musician Is such nm amiable man. II
he belong to church choir hIs amiabty Is increased
| thousand-f who ever heard Of any trouble In
| chors Aud then again he Is such handy man; who
ever saw musician who could not turn his hand 70
anythingY lie Is valuable In any emergency. Take
addier for instance: his industry is proverbai He
has been to scrape all night for nine drinks OF
rye, twenty thirty glasses Of beer, handful Of
cigars and seventy-fve cents. Such man Is public
benefactor. There was an old gentleman once who
was blessed with twin boys One Of these boys deve-
oped talent rs vIolinist and now, at forty years OF
age, he makes gorgeous living; he earns IS week
In an orchestra and he has family OF eleven small
children. The other boy accidentally had both his
arms cut of early In life, and he never learned to nd
de- but he prospered and became man OF property
character, and mark hut OF course this was an ex-
| ccption.
The particular musician are referring TO now is a
master Of many Instruments; he can MARBLE on bass
drum play solo on ono cymbal, initiate pig under
fence on his VIOLIN and 90 through all Creation on
comb and paper Ills musical gifts are remarkable,
and after he sounds his last note In this wicked world
1 N.l, tfuntar
The ncghbors wish he had the Job now.
lie wears glasses, and lately bought piccolo and
gave tho nelghhors tho benent OF his endcnvors to
master II. lie practiccd all night for many nights
With his windows open. There Ia no rose without It's
thorn and but few thorns without pleasant odorsi the
pcoio was dire to he sure, but gentleman cat, who
| always carried night-key and WAS known TO be q
Jona,ab, and raised Hail Columbia In the neighbour
hood nightly heard that piccoc, cured UP gracefully,
and t,icd twas too much for him. Aud dog named
Cmsar, mn Italian greyhound OF course, who uacd to
| bay tho and keep everybody awake. and was
known to be Dashaway, became rabid when he heard
II, and despatched by the policeman. 3d. although
had the pccolo, we certainly got ldof tho Immoral
| eat and the dissipnted dog.
But there far reaching mischief done ny thaf
p,ccoo that has not been rccored baby was born In
the nclg,borhood, md whom It was a week old the
physician was writing prescription, ana tIat Oaoy
reached up took tho pencil from tho DOCTOR thrust
into It's little MOUTH and commenced to whistle like
plccolo This nearly ended In suit to recover dam
ages, but 1t was compromised, and the baby Is now
| travelling ms n musical prodigy.
Our musical neighbor Ind largo collection Of in-
strumcnts of all kinds. among others NcrO's fiddle,
with his monogram on tho back OF It. "d David
harp but II had several strings broken and was salt
To he ont Of tune. Ono day he disappeared ana re-
mainci AWAY for several weeks. The ncighbors wer'
In dreadful state OF mind about this they reared III
might return. Time wore OH and he came not. Prop
crty advanced. and several owners VINO hnd thel
houses In Waggaman's hands Withdrew theh' ant
said they wonu not SOL NJ any price,
ono very dark night, when everybody was asleep
there came from the street horrible noise 'hat awok
all hands and caused them to rush to tho windows Il
see what was up.
One gentleman expressed tile opinion thpt there wa
| n female In distress down there. Another Thought
was hog, with oui'uog tackied u mini. mo'he'.
old lady dih not believe this put saiu " WINS VIC
man, with the collie, md she called ont - h'm Una
she would heat some water aud put tablesroonfni
mustard In and send 1t down TO NM ons IN IN
meantime she advised MIN to put MS hngsr uoWh III
! throat. Another lady, VINO had "eeh 10 tho c'rc"
that afternoon, Thought some OF tho VITA peasts ha
escaped and were lighting desperately III the street
And very liberal, witty man, VINO wasverY iona OF
Joke who wore duo stockings ana peeved moreover
so many babies In the ad flaco not span long ira
there was no room down there Tor grown people, wh
always prided himself on being "scorchmai' na
his head ont OF his winuow' MS mouth opoh' aha III
tongue hanging out, completely ehtrahced. ne khe'
what 1t was, Int ho didh't say word.
I'y and by one OF the ne'ghl,ors brought to bear
tho racket tho rays from ba'Fs-oyo lantern anu
could SEQ that II was our husicai helshpor' MI ""g
ner, with q bagpipa, WHO stopped phyihg.
''Why, It's MIR. Wagner ~ saiu eyerypody:
"Cer'ainiy IL is " rephea he' hnypouy Gu
play violin apyanner, mute, ciatiohet' NORM e'c'