Musicians And Their Worshippers

1 1 is the proiul privilege oí' musical "stars" lo sür the fair breasts oí' lashion-lcading Russian ladios witli such mighty impulses of enihusiastic admiration that dames and damscls of the higtvest rank, citrried away by their leelings, are wout iiow and anon to icrt'orni i tic strangest acts of lieroworship. At the tenniuaiion of Anton ltubinstcin's last concert in Moscow, tlie patrie inu Ivautios ot' tliat aristocratie city eirried tlio platform by storm, and devoured ( ho yrcit jianist's hand with fervent kisses, to dia manifest embarrasBmeiit and confusión. Apropos of this quaint freak of the Muscovita ladies, the Russische Zeitumj remitida its readers of a coioical incident that took place toward the end of (J.ar Nicholas's roign, when Salvi, a tenor sinter cndowod witli uucoiiiiiion personal attraclions, haví coinpleted his engagement at the Moscow Opera House, was about to take li is departurc for !St. Petersburg. A large number of his fciualeadinirers lor the most part patricians of the 11 rat water, drove to the railway station to see 11 lm off, laden with wreaths and bouquets of costly exotics, and suiTOUnded hini on the platform as he was about lo get inio tlie train, im])loring him in passionate accents to hestow upon tiiem sume trille by which they might recall him to their memories when heshould be faraway. iáalvi was at lirst sinitten with ]iainful perplexity by the prayers of his fair worshippers, but presently a ludicrous notion suggested ilself to him, and he proposed, in jest ratlicr than in earnest, that hc should ndminisLer to each lady a smart farcwell pincli "to remeniber him by." To his amazeïnent this absurd proposition was hailcd with joyful acclaniation; and, as he proceeüed to jmt it into execulion, tlie enthusiastic recipients of hÏ3 souvenirs eagerly importuned him to pinch hard, "so as to loavo a nice bluo mark that wou ld last a long whilo, and. above all. whcre they could beo it -