Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1901 — Rebbed and Then Made to Sing. [ARTICLE]

Rebbed and Then Made to Sing.

Senor Manuel Garcia, the oldest professor of music In the world, wee bora ninety-four years ago in Spain. Ho left his native country during the peninsular war, owing to Wellington’s advance on Badajoz. When Gounod, Verdi and Wagner wore still at school' Garcia was singing on the operatic stage. Many years ago he was on a tour with his father in Mexico, and they were “held up” by masked brigands, who first robbed them of over a thousand ounces of gold and then compelled the Garcias to sing to them for nothing. Senor Garcia, by the way. invented the laryngoscope.