The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-02-14

corously, looking out of the corners of
his eyes at his fellow performers. There
was a smile on Schreiners face, too,
but / thought nothing Of it till
it changed to an expression of amaze
ment and unmistakable chagrin. Char
ley's lips were parted wide, his face was
overspread with rosy color, his eyes
were fixed on the chandelier, all just as
it should be for tenor climax, and the
top note Of the song was sounding
beautifully clear and sweet, without a
suspicion of that forced quality that
sometimes Injuries such effect
thought had never heard Charley
give such pure tone, and was de-
lighted, but following Schreiner's
glance, for his keen ear had detected
the fraud instantly, was just in time
to see Mollenhauer taking his clarinet
from his lips. Then understood.
The clarinetist was but five or six
feet behind the singer, and there was
not one person In the audience who
failed to believe that the top note came
from Charley's throat. A couple of
chords from the strings to close, the
piece were inaudible on account of the
tumultuous applause. Charley went out
to bow again and again, but nothing
could induce him to give an ''encore :"
He knew that the trick would not sue
coed twice. The ugly Schreiner would
have done something to spoil it a second
time.
And up in the box Miss Mary sat
smiling, enjoying her lover s triumph,
and when, months after they We're mar
ried and she taxed him for the reason
why he never could be persuaded to
sing the charity concert song, even in
private, he told her it was because he
never could produce again that silver
top note. Then he confessed how it was
done, and, like the true woman that
she was, she kissed him and told him
it wouldn' t have made the least differ
ence to her if his voice had broken in a
thousand pieces
81 know that now," said Charley,
''but it would have tickled Schreiner
The trick was worth the fun for his
discontinue Frederick R. Burton in
chicago News
Peculiarities of Languages.
The Hindoos have no word for
''friend
The Italians have no equivalent for
humility.
The Russian dictionary gives word
the definition of which is mot to have
enough buttons on your footman s
coat, a second means ''to kill over
again. third ''earn by dancing, .
while the word ''knout, - which we have
all learned to consider as of exclusively
Russian meaning and application,
proves upon investigation to be their
word ''knut, and to mean only a
whip of any kind. +"
The Germans call thimble Ginger
hat, which it certainly is, and grass
hopper a ebay horse. A glove with
them is ''hand shoe, +" showing evil
IDENTIFY that they wore shoes before
gloves. Poultry is Feather cattle, =
while the names for the well known
substances Oxygen" and hydrogen"
are in their language ''sour stuff and
''water stuff =
The French, strange to say, have no
verb ''to stand, nor can a Frenchman
speak of kicking" any one. The near
est approach in his politeness he makes
to it is ''to threaten to give blow
with his foot, " the same thing probably
to the recipient in either case, but it
seems to want the directness and the
energy of our ''kick. Neither has he
any word for ''home'' nor comfort !"
The terms Cup stairs and ''down
stairs are also unknown in French