Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — Bagpipe Music. [ARTICLE]

Bagpipe Music.

Except to Scotchmen the sounds usually evoked from a bagpipe are not highly musical. A humorist in the Clarion attempts an analysis of them: Big files on windows—72 per cent.; cats on midnight tiles—ll% per cent.; voices of infant puppies—6 per cent.; grunting of hungry pigs in the morning—s% per cent.; steam-whistles—3 per cent.; chant of cricket—2 per cent. The present population of the United States exceeds that of Germany by about 22,000,000 and that pf Great Britain by 34,000,000.