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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3697, 30 October 1880, Page 4

Professor Weyse the eminent Danish musical composer, has been for some time past painfully exercised by the mournful and incessant tinkling of a superannuated piano, the property of a family resident upon the floor immediately beneath his apartments. Morning, noon, and night his ear has been distracted by dismal discords and melancholy stummings, to the stultification, ss, he himself avers, of some of his happiest inspirations. The other evening, as he sat in his study, deeply excogitating a "Leit-motiv" for the second movement of his new symphony, a burst of more than usually discordant sounds from the yillanous instrument below at once irretrievably scattered his ideas and prompted him to desperate enterprise. Attired as he was, in dressing-gown and slippers, he hurried down-stairs and rang his persecutor's door-bell. Admitted to the tormentchamber containing the abominable apparatus which had wrought him woe, he found there assembled a goodly and . joyous company, which welcomed him with effusion despite his unconventional costume. After bowing gravely to his host and hostess, he sat down before the open piano without uttering a word, and played one of his own fantasias, a par* ticular favourite of the Copenhagen public. As soon as he had concluded, he shut the piano, locked it, put the key in bi« pocket, and' again bowing to the master and mistress of the house with a sardonic smile, departed as lie had come, in profound silence. For the remainder of that night at least the engine of his discomforture was mute and innocuous. HonowAT'B Puiia.—Theße celebrated Pills are essentially useful in purifying the. blood, cleansing the stomach, gently stimulating the kidneys, and acting as mild aperients. A few doses of this purifying medicine set .the'foulest stomach right, remove all bilious 'symptoms, steady the circulation, gwe strength to the muscles and composure t» tho brain and nerves. The lilis are so innoxious that they may be taken _ by perloni in the most delicate state of health, and with marvellous effect. When the system has .> been enervated by- I;over-, indulgence, or exhau»ted;by mercurial preparations, the«e Pill» »re excellent restoratives, they expel fcbe poigou aud enrich the blood,'