CONCRETE MUSIC.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1956, 12 April 1875, Page 4

CONCRETE MUSIC.

Two or three painful incidents are reported in the American ,papers to have occurred lately. Tlie other evening in Williamsvillo, 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 liadj,. ( 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 forborne little time. On attempting at the conclusion of the performance to rise, they found themselves, however, in an embarrassing and uncomfortable position. They were, in fact, glued to the pavement, and could only regain their feet at a terrible sacrifice of their clothing. After a lengthened discussion as, to what was best v to be done under the circumstances, it was decided that they must free themselves at any cost. They accordingly screwed their courage up to tearing point, and with "a mighty wrench" rose from the pavement, leaving behind them, almost as much of their garments as they carried awjiy.—Another case of somewhat similar character is reported from New Jersey. A gentleman having tried the experiment last summer of roofing his house with the material out of which concrete pavements are made, was much annoyed l)y the animated discussion carried on by the cats of the neighborhood on the top of his dwelling, Finding the noise unbearable, he ascended the garret one night and looked out of the trap-door. To his horror he Found no fewer than 196 >ats stuck fasti -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'libuse 'the whole 196 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 his wife, who was standing below with a candle in her hand. Both husband and wife were seriously but mot, dangerously idjured.-^ Pall' Mali Gazette.