Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — New Catalogue of Organs. [ARTICLE]

New Catalogue of Organs.

The Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Com pan v have just Issued their new Catalogue for the season of 1884-5. It forms a handsome 4to pamphlet of 46 pages, and contains illustrations accurately showing the appearance of all the styles of organs regularly made by them, with detailed descriptions of the capacity of each; together with quite full mention of the general modes of construction employed and the great favor with which their organs have been received all over the world; with accounts of their triumphs at all the great comparisons of such instruments at World’s Industrial Exhibitions for many years; with pictures of medals, decorations and diplomas of honor obtained. In looking over such a catalogue one is forcibly reminded of the magnitudejvhich the business of reed instruments has attained. Twenty-live years 6ince only a few were made, under the name “Melodeons,” which had not and did not deserve much favor with musicians, enjoying very limited sale at prices varying from $lO to $125. Now 80.000 organs are made yearly in the United States, which are sold in all civilised countries at prices ranging from $22 to SI,OOO or more. This at least may be said to any purchaser of a Mason & Hamlin organ: ho will unquestionably get the very best instrument of its class which can be made. Thirty years’ experience is a guarantee of what this company can and will do. They cannot afford to send out poor organs. The present catalogue shows an increased and very complete assortment, both as to cases and capacities. It will be sent free to any one desiring to sec it, on application to the Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano Company, Boston, New York, or Chicago.— Boston Traveller. As squirrels, burying acorns and nuts in the autumn, have planted, says Nature, many an oak forest and hazel forest, so it is probable that the earthworms plant many of the ash and sycamore trees that we see perched in out-of-the-way corners, it is difficult to explain how the.blown seed can have got covered by mold enough to allow it to germinate. If an overhanging tree drops the seed, or the wind carries it anywhere near the worm’s feedingground, it is dragged in and planted in leaf-mold, and kept moist till springtime. At this time of the year we see clusters of sycamore seedlings growing up together out of the little worm-hills into which they had been dragged heavy end first. “Hello 1” wo heard one man say to another, the other day. “1 didn’t know you at first. Why! you look ten years younger than you did when I saw you last.” “I /eel ten years joungcr,” was the reply. “You know I used to be under the weather all the time and gave up expecting to be any better. The doctor said I had consumption. I was terribly weak, had night-sweats, cough, no appetite, and lost tiesh. I saw Dr. Pierce’s ‘Golden Medical Discovery’ advertised, and thought it would do no harm if it did no good. It has cured me. I am a new man because lam a well one.” A man of fine ability—a Justice of the Peace.