Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-10-13

When after eight or ten years study Berlioz,
the once despised, but now celebrated, French
composer began to comprehend the power of
music, he was invited to lead the amateur
orchestra Of a recently constituted philharmonic
society. He was sure their experience in the
ar, OF directing instrumental masses, even by
experimenting IN eo,to,e v1le, he accepted the
Office Of thef a'o,rAeshr. On the day OF re.
hearsal he found some sixty performers, who
were tuning their instruments with the discor.
dant din peculiar to amateurs. They we're about
to try symphony in d, by Gyrowetz-of all
rubbishy things the most rubbishy. They be.
gan: their clarionets sent forth frightful dis.
sonance. Bcrlioz, stopping the orchestra, said
to the culprits-"You have probably mistaken
one piece for another, Messieurs. We are play.
ing in the key of ID, and you are playing in F."
mo, Monsieur, there is no mistake in the peice;
1t is Gyrowetzs symphony" "Let us begin
again, then" Fresh dscord; another stoppage.
"There is something wrong. Show me your
part. Parbleu! the cocophony is easily ex.
planned. Your part, certainly, is written in F,
but for clarionets in Al and your F, in that case
becomes the unison Of our ID. You have taken
the wrong instruments" "Monsieur, we have
only claronets in c." "Well, then, transpose
your parts into the right key" "We can't
transpose; we don't know how" SIN that
case, ma fol, hold your tongues /; keep silence,
and shut up your instruments" ~ dare say
indeed, we shall do that We ere members of
the society. and we have just as much right to
play as the Others" At this incredible speech
Berlioz dropped his conductors baton and ran
away as il the deuce were at his heels
don Seeitiy.
Roscoe Conkling. says the Washington
Critic, when in the senate was regarded as
the worst speller in tha. body. Senator
Mitchell. Of Oregon. was assigned to a seat
directly behind Conkling, and soon the Sena.
tor from New York, who had been busilly en-
gagged in writing, turned to him and said
Senator Mitchell how would you spell
wagon" Wagon said the Oreeonian.
WELL said Mr.. Conkling, will Immediately
proceed to erase 'g," spelled the word
with two "g's." On another occasion he
asked Senator Mitchell how to spell car, and
being told, remarked have Just spelled il
"z-a.r," SO will prefix the letter "c."' Many
other eccentrcites in spelling are told Of Sen.
tor Conkling."
memoir has been prepared by NJ. Riccardi
on the chemical composition Of the banana at
different stages Of its growth. green banana
contains half its weight Of starch. This starch
disappears in the ripe fruit. The sugar in the
fruit rpened on the plant is almost entirely
cane sugar, but Il the fruit is matured after
being gathered the sugar is four -ffths what is
called inverted, and the remaining fifth cane.
Both the fannie substances and the organic
acids Of the green are not 10 be found in the
ripe fruit Alcoholic fermentation does not
appear to play any part in the production Of
the carbonic acid yielded by the banana when
1t arrives at its third act Of ripening.
Very few people know that a letter mailed in
hotel envelope which fails to reach the per.
son addressed Is sent at once to the dead letter
Office, Notwithstanding the ten days return no.
tice on the comet If you stop a, hotel and
use one OF their envelopes. always mark out
the name and insert your own il you want your
letter again, II it fails to reach the person ad-
dressed.
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