CONCRETE MUSIC.

Patea Mail, Volume 1, Issue 13, 26 May 1875, Page 3

CONCRETE MUSIC.

Two or three painful incidents arc reported in the American papers to have occurred lately. The other evening in Wilhamsville, lowa, some samples of tar pavement had been laid down in a few of the side streets. Sixteen young men, ‘ armed with every known musical instrument,’ proceeded that night to serenade a young lady, in front of whose house a sample of tar pavement had, unknown to them, been thus laid. Seating themselves on the sidewalk, with their feet on the roadway, they played and sang with much feeling and good taste for some little time. On attempting at the conclusion of the performance to rise, they found themselves, however, in an embarnssing and uncomfortable position. They were, in fact, glued to pavement, and conld only regain their feet at a terrible sacrifice of their clothing. After a lengthened discussion ns to what was best to ho done under the circumstances, Mas decided that they must free themes at "any cost. They accordingly screwed their courage up to tearing point, and with ‘ a mighty wrench’ rose 'from the pavement, leading behind them almost as much of their garments as they carried awav. Another case nr a some.

what similar character is reported from New Jersey. A gentleman having tim'd the experiment last summer of roofing his house with the material out of which concrete pavements are made, was much annoyed by the animated discussion carried on hy the eats of the neighbourhood on the top of his house. Finding the noise unbearable, he ascended the garret one night and looked out of the trap-door. To his horror ho found no fewer than one hundred and ninty-six cats stuck fast knee-deep in the concrete, which had been softened by the heat. Some of them had been there four days. The moment they caught sight of the owner of the house the whole one hundred and ninety-six doubled their spines, ruffled their hair, shook their tails, and gave one wild, unearthly yell, which so frightened him that he fell down the step ladder on the head of Ids wife, who was standing below witli a candle in her hand. Roth husband and wife were seriously but not dangerously injured. — “ Pall Mall Gazette.”