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the brain to the concept dog, it must be clear at once
that that tract will be Itself a very large and much
subdivided region. For it must include all the
soparate visible attributes of the dog in general;
and so it must contain as sub-species in subordina-
tion to it every kind of known dog, not only those
already enumerated, but also the Eskimau dog, the
Pomeranian, the French poodle, the turnspit, the
Australian dingo, the Cuban bloodhound, the Gordon
setter, and so forth, through every other form of dog
the particular possessor of that individual brain has
ever seen, cognized, or heard of. Is it not clear that,
on the hypothesis of such definite and distinct locali-
tion, dog-tract alone ought to monopolize a region
about one sixth as big every way as our whole assign-
able provision of brain-surface ?
Moreover, about this point we seem to bo getting
ourselves into a sad muddl6. for we have next to
remember our own private dog, Grip, let us call him,
or if you prefer it, Prince or Ponto. Now, I suppose,
his name, viewed as a name, will be localized in the
language department of our particular brain, and
will there be arranged under the general heading of
proper names, division dog-names. But there must
be some intimate cross-connection between the cell
or cells representing the audible and pronounceable
name Grip, or the letters G, R, I, P, and the cell or
cells which have to do with the idea dog, and also, I
imagine, with tho name dog : for both the word
Grip is intimately connected in my mind with the
words "my dog," and the idea Grip is intimately
connected in that same humble empirical subjec"
tivity with the idea of dog in general. In fact, I
can't think of Grip without thinking at once of his
visible appearance, his personal name, and his essen"
tial dogginess of name and nature. Grip is to me a
symbol, primarily, of some dog or other, and second-
arily or more particularly of my dog. But whether
Grip and Ponto are arranged and pigeon-holed in
cells next door to one another, as being both by
name dogs; or whether one is arranged under G, as
in a dictionary, and the other under P (just after
Pontius, for example, and just before Pontus Euxinus,
both of which form distinct component elements of
my verbal memory), I can not imagine. At each
step in the effort to realize this wooden sort of locali-
zation, is it not clear that we are sinking deeper and
deeper into a bottomless slough of utter inconceiva-
bility V
(To be continued.)
LAWRENCE BROTHERS, organ manufacturers, Eas-
ton, Pa., dissolved. Philip J. Lawrence continues.
MRS. M. C. THAYER, St. Paul, Minn., made an
assignment.
CHARLES D. BLAKE ]& Co., Boston, Mass., dis-
solved.
W. PIESEL, manufacturer of band instruments, New
York city, given a bill of sale for $300.
W. A. EVANS & BROTHERS, sheet music publishers,
Chicago, closed by sheriff.
JOHN H.. YOUNG, piano manufacturer, Boston,
Mass., chattel morgage for $115, subject to a prior
one for $400.
C. A WILLIAMSON, Columbus, Ohio, suspended.
JOHN DIERDORPP, Indianopolis, Ind., assigned.
GEORGE CAVELESS & Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, to
close out and retire from business.
BRYANT WILLIAM J. SMITH, Springfield, 111., chattel mort-
gage, $390.
LAMBREOHT & DBIBLE, Oshkosh, "Wis., dissolved.
G. L. KENT, Charles City, Iowa, chattel mortgage,
$141.
SHA.W &NADEAU, Fort Madeson, Iowa, W. T. B.,
bill of sale, $550, deed $2.
P. G. HULL, Columbus, Ohio, chattel mortgage,
$17.
A. W. FISCHER, Toledo, Ohio, chattel mortgage,
$312, renewed.
SAMUEL W. TYLER, Clinton, Mass., deceased.
KIMBALL & SON, Walla Walla, W. T., realty mort-
gage, $7,500.
N. L. & A. L. DERBY, Marengo, 111., chattel mort-
gage, $50.
S. H. WOOLEY, Clay Centre, Kansas City, selling
out.
J. H. HOLTZINGER, Tyrone, Pa., Judgement, $830,
revival.
R. C. BOLINGER, Fort Smith, Arkansas, sold out.
CROSS & AINBUHL, Chicago, dissolved.
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.
WEEK ENDING MARCH 2,
THE GAZETTE.
1886.
R. W.
Organs,
"
Pianos,
Liverpool,
Organs,
Organ m't'ls,
London,
Organs,
Brit. W. Indies , Organs,
Music boxes,
Now Zeland,
Organs,
9
3
H
2 cases
6
3
2
5
IMPORTS.
WEEK ENDING, FEB. 27, 1886.
128
Packages,
$13,283
EXPORTS.
1886.
Piano,
1 case, $ 300
"
400
M't'ls.,
:$ "
London,
Organ,
1 "
75
Liverpool,
Organs,
30 "
2,319
130
Glasgow,
Organs,
3 "
Br. W. Indies, Organs,
4 "
875
"
"
Cornets,
1 "
40
63
Music,
2 "
New Zealand, Organs,
2 "
150
58
Cuba,
Organs,
1 "
Hayti,
Musical Instrum'ts, , 1 "
74
San Domingo, Musical Instrum'ts, 3 "
108
U. S. Colombia, Orguinettes,
3 "
225
Chili,
Pianos,
3 "
1,000
WEEK ENDING MARCH 9,
Hamburg,
IMPORTS.
WEEK ENDING MARCH 5, 1886.
$16,670
I do not believe that my readers (that is to say,
the entire music trade), are overwhelmingly inter-
ested in any casvs belli that may exist between the
above mentioned individual and myself. The quar-
rels of editors are usually stale, flat, and unprofita-
ble, generally conducted on a basis of billingsgate
and blatherskite, and resembling nothing so much
as the " m u g s " that disagreeable children pull at
one another in the street. These being my senti-
ments, I should look down upon this MR. BLUMEN-
BERG, with supreme indifference and sublime con-
tempt, were it not for the fact that in his issue of the
Courier for March 17, he charges me with making a
gross misstatement, which charge is utterly without
foundation.
I refer, of course, to the paragraph which I pub-
lished in " Trade Chat," in the last issue of T H E
MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, to the effect that Messrs.
CORRY BROS., Providence, R. I., assigned. Liabili-
ties, $34,000; assets, $14,000.
BEHNING & SON were about to remove their ware-
rooms from Fourteenth street to their factory in
128th street. BLUMENBERG says, virtually, that they
never told me anything of the kind.
In reply, I will simply state that MR. HENRY
OBITUARY.
$ 525
1,475
600
175
385
142
17
225
BERG.
Cross continues.
EXPORTS.
Hamburg,
BLUMENBERG'S BELLOW.
I really regret the necessity I am under of devol-
ing even a little time or space to Mit. M. A. BLUMEN-
BEHNING, J R . , MR. HENRY BEHNING, SR., and
MRS. EMMA J . BRILL.
M
RS. EMMA J., wife of Mr. Theodore Brill,
and daughter of James H. Hickok, Esq.
(the music dealer), died at her residence,
No. 56 Washington street, on Monday. Her death
was quite sudden, and was caused by an acute attack
of Bright's disease. She attended the Washington
Street M. E Church Sunday morning, and spent the
evening at her father's house in Catharine street, ap-
parently in her usual health. She was taken ill
about twelve o'clock on Sunday night, soon became
unconscious and remained so until her death, which
took place at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon.
The news of the sudden death of this young lady
will not only be received with great sorrow by her
numerous relatives but also among a host of friends
by whom she was so well-known and respected. She
was married last May, and at the time of her death
was in the 25th year of her age. She was a respected
member of the Washington Street M. E. Church and
Sunday School, and these organizations in her death
have sustained a great loss. The family will have
the sympathies of the entire community in the afflic-
tion which has so suddenly come upon them.
The notice of the funeral will be found in another
column.—Poughkeepise Daily Eagle, March 9, 1886.
the
young man who I suppose is the bookkeeper at the
factory, were responsible for the statement I made.
Further than this I shall not say at present.
Mr. BLUMENBERG'S recent heat is palpably due to
the charge made by Messrs. LUDDEN & BATES, of
Savannah, Ga., that he at one time had been guilty
of dealing in stencilled pianos, a practice he now
condemns in other people.
The charges of Messrs. LTJDDEN & BATES, or their
substance, were published in the Music TRADE R E -
VIEW, the American Art Journal, the Chicago Indica-
tor, and the Free Press, and stirred BLUMENBERG up
almost to the verge of frenzy.
He urges that I should have called upon MR. C. D.
PEASE, from whom I might have learned that he, (MR.
PEASE), never made any stencilled pianos for MR.
M. A. BLUMENBERG.
In the face of MR. ISAAC LEON'S sworn statement
PROMISSORY
NOTE.—INDORSER'S
LIABILITY.—A
promissory note in renewal of one that had been dis-
counted by a bank, was indorsed by the defendant in
the case of Wessel et al. vs. Glenn (Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania), for the accommodation of the maker.
When the note was signed and indorsed, there was a
blank left for the place of payment, which was pre-
ceded by the word " a t . " The maker took the note
to the bank, but the bank refused to take it, as there
was no place of payment. He then filled up the blank
after the word "at, "by writing the name of the bank.
The court held that this was not such an alteration
as would relieve the indorser.
that MR. M. A. BLUMENBERG, to his, (LEON'S) knowl-
edge, sold pianos stencilled "Blumenberg, Balti-
more," it was not necessary for me to call on MR.
PEASE. The latter gentleman certainly denies that
he made stencilled pianos for M. A. BLUMENBERG,
but that does not say that HALE, or other manufac-
turers did not make them for him.
BLUMEKBERG makes a passing allusion to my re-
cent " illnees," with a cute little mark of interroga-