Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1897 — Tuning Up. [ARTICLE]

Tuning Up.

It has often puzzled the uninitiated why musicians tune their Instruments in public, and not before they enter the orchestra. If they manipulated them before entering the theater or concert room they might find the temperature different in the place of performance, and the Instruments would not be tn tune. King Oscar of Sweden and Norway, who will soon celebrate the twentyfifth anniversary of his reign, has re celved the honorary degree of doctor in all the faculties of the University of Vienna. This is the first time that such a distinction, which has to be sanctioned by an imperial decree, has ever beeh conferred. A delegation of savants from the university will visit the jubilee at Stockholm to present the diploma to King Oscar in person. The document Itself is a fine work of art, on which several of the most prominent Viennese artists have collaborated. In some of the farming districts of China pigs are harnessed to small wagons and made to draw them,.