Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1886 — No Change in the Violin. [ARTICLE]

No Change in the Violin.

It is remarkable that while the piano has arrived at itspresent stage of perfection through evolution, like man from a very inferior creation, as Darwin believed, the violin in its earliest stages was at its best, and the- efforts of all fiddle makers to-day • are directed towards imitating, as far as possible? the early models. They don’t dare to chapge a curve or a swell, nor vary in the slightest manner those queer fshaped openings. The young man who plays the fiddle may come and go, but the same fiddle remains forever.— Texas Siftings. “

Strike a man, use him with violence, . and the memory of that blow, be it in act or word, will engender feelings ol hatred in him against you so long as his life