Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1874 — Exports of Musical Instruments. [ARTICLE]

Exports of Musical Instruments.

Official records of Custom-House returns at Washington show that the total value of musical instruments exported from the United States during the year ending June 30,1874, was $550,327. Of this, $258,176 was fOr pianos and $292,151 for parlor or reed organs.. Of this latter . amount $163,169, or more than one-half of the whole, was of the cabinet organs made by the Mason & Hamlin Organ Co., which bid fair to become as famous in Europe as they have long been in America. This company certainly have reason to be proud of the fact that the European demand for their organs is larger than that for all others combined. —Boston Traveller. Locking the stable door after the horse is stolen has a nevy illustration at Milford, N. H., where the'bank directors are putting on a lock that would have absolutely prevented the recent great robbery. It is made on the same principle as a clock, and cannot be opened until a certain hour, by the cashier or any other man. —Never give anybody a piece of your mind; give him the whole or none.