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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW.
servitude. But ptrhaps the greater part of Miss
Cline's fame depends upon her graphic descrip-
tion of the fight between '' McCloskey and the
Nagur.''
As is well known, the song that brought Lottie
Collins to public notice was " Ta-Ra-Ra, Boom,
de-Ay," which yielded her $1,000 a week. The
same may be said of Joe Flynn, whose " Down
Went McGinty " carried him into fame from a
vaudeville singer to a " star " within six months;
and Lew Dockstader was lifted into greater de-
mand solely from his excellent interpretation of
the song "We've Both Been There Before Many
a Time."
William Hoey is as much indebted for his pre-
sent celebrity in singing "The Man Who Broke
the Bank at Monte Carlo " as anything he ever
sang, while " Comrades " has caused the name
of Helene Mora to be a byword with managers
all over the United States. Katie Lawrence, the
English vocalist, jumped from comparative ob-
scurity into the full glare of popularity through
the bicycle song, " Daisy Bell."
Two at the present time enjoying popular
favor as ballad singers are J. Aldrich Libbey and
Raymon Moore. The former is appreciating the
favor and the money which came from his intro-
duction of the song "After the Ball," which
netted him thousands of dollars, while the latter
has earned more than $10,000 in royalties through
the sentimental ballad '' Sweet Marie.''
Advertisements Live Long.
Instances in Which an " Ad " Brought a
Purchaser After Thirty Years.
*3THE value of an adve/tisement, no matter
*•£/ how old, if once it has been committed to
type, is very peculiarly shown in the experience
of Frank Howe, son of the late historian. For
many years the historian was a resident of Cin-
cinnati, engaged in the publishing business on
Main street. He was at that time a very liberal
advertiser in the newspapers of the State, and
received a very large mail. Thirty years have
passed since then, and yet occasionally, to this
day, letters addressed to Henry Howe, at his
Cincinnati street and number, are received by
his son in this city, and after having been for-
warded from Cincinnati. In one of these letters
the writer explained that he had just come across
an old paper containing an advertisement of a
book in which he was interested, and wrote at a
venture to see if a copy could be secured. The
newspaper had been packed away in some cor-
ner and had, after long disuse, found an inter-
ested eye. This and other instances of the kind
show that it is impossible to tell how and when
an advertiser will get returns. It is made equally
apparent that the good offices of an advertise-
ment in a newspaper are never ended till the
paper is destroyed.
Pussy Plays the Piano.
/vJTHE romantic suburb of Wissahickon boasts
'4D of a genuine musical prodigy. It is a
Maltese cat which is owned by William Johnson
and of which the neighbors are justly proud.
Since its early youth the cat has been fond of
music and could never be driven from the parlor
when anyone was playing on the piano. It first
began to attract attention by beating perfect
time with its paws. Then it learned gradually
to play bass parts in simple tunes as an accom-
paniment to one of the children. Now pussy is
able to play the old familiar tune of '' America ''
without missing a note.—Philadelphia Record,
RECENT LEGAL
DECISIONS.
An Insect Sounding-Board.
N'S inventions are frequently but imita-
tions, more or less clumsy and ineffectual,
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of nature's own devices. It would appear, for
instance, that even insects have sounding-boards,
TELKGRAM—FAILURE TO DE171VER.
although they may be supposed to know nothing
The Supreme Court of C.eorgia held, in the re- of the laws of acoustics.
cent case of Chandler v. Western Union Tele-
Entomologists have recently discovered on the
graph Company, that a company receiving a under side of the fore-wings of two Japanese in-
telegraphic message for transmission, and a sects, of the families cidaria, a curious pit or
connecting company whose agent at the point hollow closely connected with an organ believed
of destination failed to deliver it with due dili- to be used by the insect for producing strident
gence, cannot be joined in the same action for sounds. The pit would evidently serve to con-
the statutory penalty in Georgia, the action centrate the sound, as the shell-shaped orchestra
being brought for the alleged default of each stands at some of our seaside resorts reflect the
severally, and no joint default or joint conduct melody of the instruments to the ears of the
of the business of telegraphing by the defend- auditors.
ants being alleged.
In the Khari hills, in India, another species of
the
same insect has been found which possesses
CONSIGNMENT—CARRIER—CHARGES.
a similar set of organs. The shrill, creaking
The Supreme Court of Georgia held, in the sounds that insects produce seldom fall pleasant-
recent case of the Pennsylvania Steel Company ly upon our ears, but they must produce a dif-
vs. Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, ferent effect in the insect world, else nature
that where the same vender under a single con- would hardly have provided these little musi-
tract of sale shipped by rail several consignments cians with sounding-boards.
of goods to the same vendee, each shipment
embracing several carloads, the carrier had the
right to retain out of any one or more of the
consignments enough of the goods in value to
pay the charges for freight and storage upon all,
without respect to the particular consignments
out of which the goods were retained, and that
this right of the carrier had the same relation
to the right of stoppage in transitu by the ven-
dor which it had to the right of the consignee to
claim delivery of the retained goods where no
stoppage occurred, and that payment of the
freight and stoppage must be made before the
consignor can obtain possession under the right
MANUFACTURED BY THE
of stoppage in transitu.
BEAMBACH
PIANOS,
MARRIED WOMEN—NOTES— INDORSEMENT.
The Supreme Court of Indiana held, in the
recent case of Shirk v. North, that where the
payee of ndtes, a married woman, indorses them
in blank and delivers them to another as col-
lateral security for her husband's debt, and such
other sells them as his own to an innocent pur-
chaser for value, such notes are not technically
governed by the law of merchants, and that the
payee is estopped by her indorsement as against
such innocent purchaser from asserting an
ownership in the notes.
LAND—DEVISE—CREDITORS—DEBTS.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals held, in the
recent case of Thompson et al. vs. Meyers et al.,
that an heir or devisee takes land descended or
devised to him free from any lien for debts due
by him to the ancestor or testator, such debts
not being upon the same footing as advance-
ments made to him, and that where a ereditor
has an execution levied upon the undivided in-
terest of his debtor in land devised to him, and
at the sale under the execution became the pur-
chaser, in a division of the testator's estate he
was entitled to have alotted to him his debtor's
share of the land devised, without any diminution
on account of a debt due by the devisee to the
testator.
SALE—RETENSION OF POSSESSION—RIGHTS OF
CREDITORS.
Though possession of goods sold is retained
by the seller, the sale, which is valid except as
to creditors of the seller, can be attacked by
them only by a legal attachment or legal levy
of execution, followed by proceedings to appro-
priate the avails thereof to payment of their
debts.
Price v. Heubler, Supreme Court of Errors of
Connecticut, October 25th, 1893.
BRAMBACH PIANO CO.
Factories: DOLGEVILLE, N. Y.
SCHARWENKA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
No. 37 EAST 08th ST., NEW l'OBK.
Under'the Management of EMU. GRAMM.
Fall Term begins September loth.
Examinations daily from September 3 : 10 to 12 and I! to 5.
Students can enter at any time
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PIANO.
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97 Fifth Ave., cor. 17th St., New York.
EA8TERN REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE
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Manufacturers of Strictly Flrnt-I IIIHS (Jrand &, Upright Pianos,
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