Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-08

$40 according TO binding. did not receive
a single order for one of the SO kind. The
most popular were the $3.75 and $4.75 ed
| itions."
There is probably no cornet player in
America no matter what his abilities are a. a
solost, who can hold a given note longer
than Prof. John Reising. In the Big Six
| Prize Medley Mr.. Rei!ing trills on a Ger tain
note for 4s bars, without the sign Of break,
while the orchestra plays the air of the Carni-
val de Venice. Instead of being exhausted
at the end of the feat, Prof. Reising actually
makes swell and concludes with . fortis-
simo blast Herr K1ster and Korthener, the
Toledo artists who visited this city to play at
| the charity concert, recently, were amazed at
the long trill and said that in long musical
| experience in America and Europe they had
| never seen cornstist with such an immense
fund of wind as lReisirg. A good story is
told OF a lung-tester fakir on the Market
| square. The latter was frantically i'm
poring people to csme up and
| have their lungs tested one dull afternoon.
After he had expended q good deal OF els-
| quence, John Rssing Innocently stepped up
to the machine, after depositing his nickel
| with the cashier. After taking in a breath
that would serve an ordinary man half an
hour, Prot. Reising commenced TO blow
gently and calmly into the tube of the lung
tester, with an innocent twinkle in his left
eye. Slowly the index figure rose to the fig
ure which marks the lung capacity of ordi-
nary humanity, and then went beyond it.
Surely and steadily it SCARED onward, until it
reached the limit OF the exceptionally large
lungs sometimes met with in aucuoneers
and Bible canvassers. Still the customer
showed no signs of having reached his limit.
The fskir began to grow hdgety, and to exam-
inc the Prot. more closely, but the latter stood
calmly at his post gradually forcing the
small index finger up to unhesrd of heights.
At last the fakir cGuld bear it no longer, and
when the finger of the dial was within an
eight of an inch of the total capacity of the
machine he implored his customer to stop.
Prof. Reisng quietly walked away amid the
yells OF the crowd. Wheu he had gone the
fakir asked eagerly who he was. "Great
Heavens" said he, "that man has lungs like
a bellowsl | thought he'd smash the DANCED
machine to smithereens"
Mr.. Morris A. Hayward, formerly Of this
city, has been put in charge of wholesale
lumber yard in Kansas City by l.. S. Baker
L Co. of Big Rapids, Mich, who recently
started the yard as business venture.
We were 10 have enjoyed first-class opera
next Monday evening, the Queens Lace
Handkerchief by the Grau Opera Co.
The Autographs arrived G. o. D. and all
arrangements were made, but the company
backed out at the last minute. What Is the
matter with our managers? They have not
given US an opera this winter.
Mr. W. Fl. Austin, well known as a news
paper man and advertising solicitor in this
city, has decided TO abandon the quill, and
go into the real estate business He will
also publish land Journal.
The twelfth missionary conversations of
the young people of the First Presbyterian
church was held last week at the resi-
dence of Miss Belle n. Brain, on West
Pleasant street, and was attended by about
thirty of the young people. The CONVEX
sazione deals entirely with missionary topics.
About dozen persons are given FIVE ques-
tions each, to which they are expected to
hunt up answers. This makes about sixty
questions asked and answered during the
evening. Besides the questions general dis
cussious are INDUCED in. The system is
very excellent one.
A trial balance is the awful nemesis OF a
bookkeeper's existence. A bookkeeper in a
Main street dry goods house worked himself
up into such a horribly nervous state over
tue maze of figures in his trial balance last
week that he went into Weller's candy store,
and electrified the clerks and customers by
asking how much 10 cents worth of butter
scotch would come to. RAEBLER.