VARIETIES.

VARIETIES.The Dishonest Servant.A well-known firm in Edinburgh consisted of two partners, and to provide against dangers from fire and burglary it was made a stipulation in the deed of partnership that one or other of the heads of the firm should always sleep on the premises.In the course of years this became rather an irksome restriction on their liberty, and in order to free themselves from it they agreed to take into partnership their manager, an old servant of the house, on condition that he should occupy the bedroom and so fulfil the requirements of the deed.The old servant was naturally very much moved by this recognition of his services, but pleaded that he had not the necessary capital to qualify him for partnership. As to that it was only £500 that was required, and that the firm had decided to give him.And so the matter was settled. The trusty servant became a partner and took possession of the room, and in it he was found dead next morning, having committed suicide.He left behind him a letter in which he explained that all those years during which he had been so trusted by his employers, he had been robbing them, and their great kindness had so filled him with remorse that he could not live under it.The Power of Music.The late Dean Stanley was very fond of Jenny Lind, but when she stayed at his father’s palace at Norwich, he always left the room when she sang.One evening Jenny Lind had been singing Handel’s “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” Stanley, as usual, had left the room, but he came back after the music was over, and went shyly up to the great singer.“You know,” he said, “I dislike music. I don’t know what people mean in admiring it. I am very stupid, tone-deaf, as others are colour-blind. But,” he added, with some warmth, “to-night, when from a distance I heard you singing that song, I had an inkling of what people mean by music. Something came over me which I had never felt before; or, yes, I have felt it once before in my life.”Jenny Lind was all attention.“Some years ago,” he continued, “I was at Vienna, and one evening there was a tattoo before the palace performed by four hundred drummers. I felt shaken, and to-night while listening to your singing, the same feeling came over me. I felt deeply moved.”“Dear man,” Jenny Lind used to say, when she told this story, “I know he meant well, and a more honest compliment I never received in all my life.”Bad Temper.“Of all bad things by which mankind are cursedTheir own bad temper surely is the worst.”Cumberland.

The Dishonest Servant.

A well-known firm in Edinburgh consisted of two partners, and to provide against dangers from fire and burglary it was made a stipulation in the deed of partnership that one or other of the heads of the firm should always sleep on the premises.

In the course of years this became rather an irksome restriction on their liberty, and in order to free themselves from it they agreed to take into partnership their manager, an old servant of the house, on condition that he should occupy the bedroom and so fulfil the requirements of the deed.

The old servant was naturally very much moved by this recognition of his services, but pleaded that he had not the necessary capital to qualify him for partnership. As to that it was only £500 that was required, and that the firm had decided to give him.

And so the matter was settled. The trusty servant became a partner and took possession of the room, and in it he was found dead next morning, having committed suicide.

He left behind him a letter in which he explained that all those years during which he had been so trusted by his employers, he had been robbing them, and their great kindness had so filled him with remorse that he could not live under it.

The Power of Music.

The late Dean Stanley was very fond of Jenny Lind, but when she stayed at his father’s palace at Norwich, he always left the room when she sang.

One evening Jenny Lind had been singing Handel’s “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” Stanley, as usual, had left the room, but he came back after the music was over, and went shyly up to the great singer.

“You know,” he said, “I dislike music. I don’t know what people mean in admiring it. I am very stupid, tone-deaf, as others are colour-blind. But,” he added, with some warmth, “to-night, when from a distance I heard you singing that song, I had an inkling of what people mean by music. Something came over me which I had never felt before; or, yes, I have felt it once before in my life.”

Jenny Lind was all attention.

“Some years ago,” he continued, “I was at Vienna, and one evening there was a tattoo before the palace performed by four hundred drummers. I felt shaken, and to-night while listening to your singing, the same feeling came over me. I felt deeply moved.”

“Dear man,” Jenny Lind used to say, when she told this story, “I know he meant well, and a more honest compliment I never received in all my life.”

Bad Temper.

“Of all bad things by which mankind are cursedTheir own bad temper surely is the worst.”Cumberland.

“Of all bad things by which mankind are cursedTheir own bad temper surely is the worst.”

“Of all bad things by which mankind are cursed

Their own bad temper surely is the worst.”

Cumberland.

Answer to Double Acrostic I.(p. 364).1.OasiS2.BlA3.ElectriC4.DurbaR5.IlluminatI (a)6.EthelwolF (b)7.NancI (c)8.CambriC (d)9.EuphrosynE (e)Obedience.Sacrifice.(a)A secret society founded in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, for mutual assistance in attaining higher morality and virtue. It was suppressed by the Bavarian Government in 1784.(b)The son of Egbert, and father of Alfred the Great.(c)Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, besieged Nanci in 1476; but he was defeated and killed.(d)So called from being made first at Cambray.(e)One of the three Graces, or Charities.

1.OasiS2.BlA3.ElectriC4.DurbaR5.IlluminatI (a)6.EthelwolF (b)7.NancI (c)8.CambriC (d)9.EuphrosynE (e)Obedience.Sacrifice.

(a)A secret society founded in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt at Ingolstadt, Bavaria, for mutual assistance in attaining higher morality and virtue. It was suppressed by the Bavarian Government in 1784.

(b)The son of Egbert, and father of Alfred the Great.

(c)Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, besieged Nanci in 1476; but he was defeated and killed.

(d)So called from being made first at Cambray.

(e)One of the three Graces, or Charities.

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