Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1875 — Too Much Music. [ARTICLE]

Too Much Music.

A gentleman who lives on Brush street, a book-keeper in a commission-house, who has recently, owing to the press of business, been kept at his post until late at night, has for some time past been annoyed by a v musician who lives next door to him, who insisted upon blowing a brass horn until the wee sma’ hours. A polite note, requesting the musician to cease his noises or confine them to more reasonable hours, failed of being eflectual. The book-keeper then determined to try if other means would not accomplish the desired end. He accordingly secured the lease of a bass drum, snare drum and cymbals, and purchased a set of “ bones" and a rag hora. At night, as soon as he heard the dreaded blasts from his neighbor's bed-room window, he pounded away at the bass drum and cymbals, and pounded with so much force that he burst one end of the head of the drum and cracked a cymbal. Next came the noise of the snare drum, then the “ toot” of the rag horn, with a finale with the ebonies, after which he started up anew on the other head of the big drum, playing the other instruments alternately throughout the entire night, paying no attention to the fact that the man with the brass horn had hung up his instrument long before the usual time. The following night the bookkeeper enjoyed what had not been his good fortune for some time past—arrentire night of undisturbed . slumber, and he has not since been made an unwilling listener to the instrumentations of his musical neighbor. —Detroit Free Press.