Music By The Yard

lio who hath music in his soul, but can not express it through lackof technic.al skill with instruments devised to stimiüate the conoord of swéet sounds, nced no longer despair. Inventare genius ha solved the problem without Forcing him to be content with the monotonqus hand-organ or the mechanica] music-box. The automatic organ, as it is called, involves the necessity on the part oí the player oí using the ieet upon the treadles,"but the manipulations oí the keys by tlie fingers is dispensad vrith by the peculiar process of having the music play itself, ín place of ordinary notes printed on a few pages, the roll of music is yards in length and the notes are perforations rarying in sizc and place aecording to the time and piteh. By an arrangement of wheels t'nis roll is unwound and drawn over the openinga above the reeds by the same motion of the pedáis which forces the air throtigh thelatter; and as the perforations pass over the reeds the musical sounds are allowed to escape in harmony, jngt as they do when the keys are pressed in an ordinary organ. When the tune isplayed, an Ingenióos contrivanec permits the macliinery to le reversed and the sheet of music to be removed in readinoss for another performance. It can then be readily removed and another put in its place. Ac corduigtothe scope oí the instrument the style oí the music performed may be variedfrom a "Stabat Mater " to airs from " Pinafore." The cost of the rolls is only sligiitly in advanceof ordinary sheet-music : while a lawe sized instrument can be had for affout the same as the cheapest ordinary parlor organ. This invention is a reafization of the fancy of music reeled out by the yard. - New York Tribune. ■ - A soda-water generator exploded in an Albany, N. Y., drug-store one day reoently. Wliile they were charging the fountain the druggist asked his assistant how many pounds of gas were on and was told that there were two lnmdrett and thirty. He then reached up to turn the valve which Iets the gas into the fountain, whon tlie generator exploded, filling the eyes of botli with its contenta and knocfcing tiiem down. The forcé of the explosión drove the vitriol ch&mbor., weighing about sixty pounds, up tbxough me flóoring, making quite a large hole. and drenching the contects of one side of the store. The two men were badlv burned. - Une day, a fríend of mine was visiting the Botanical Gardena at Durban in Natal, South África. He rode to the top of a beautiful rango of hills, and tliere he had the pleasure of fínding a line garden well stoeked with foreign trees and plants. Hearing angiy voices, the visitar waited til! the manager appeared, verj hot and troubled, and made apology for the "hard words." "It woulit have made Job mad," s:id lie. "1 had succeeded in growing a fine set of vinos, bearing twcnty-six different kinds of grapes. I wished to find out which kind would best snit the Natal climate, but feared that the birds might get ahead oi' me. So I had somo nnisliu bngs made, and told a Zulú servant to tie up a bunch in every bag. Just now I niet hini trumlling a wheelbarrow loaded with muslin oags Btuffed with grapes. He had cut off all the bunches first, and then tied them up in the bags!" Tliat was provoking, but still the Zula had oiien obedient - perhaps too obedient. -