Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1885 — A Double-Faced Musical Creed. [ARTICLE]

A Double-Faced Musical Creed.

The following jeu d'espritis ascribed to the Rev. Charles Wesley. It may be read in columns or straight across with opposite effect: Handel d'ye see’s. A downright arrant block The man for me Is John Sebastian Bach, Who can write well Why none but German John Bnt oid Handel Ought to be spat upon, George is for air The stupidest of cooaa Beyond compare ’ Is -Bach at graceful tones, To Handel 8 name We all propine our hate Give then the fame To Bach’s chromatic pate. •—The Keynqte. The fashionable color at the skating rinks this season is green. We presume this is on accoxint of the large number of amateurs with which the rinks are filled this year.