MUSIC AND MYSTERY.
Persons who like puzzles might often find amusement in the musical advertisements, which are put forth in some of the weekly prints. Here is one, for instance, which contains so hard a nut that even Notes and Queries would find it difficult to crack:-
Ewer’s royal pavilion, Shaftesbury, Dorset.- wanted, Thee Musicians to join immediately, double-handed would be preferred, For particulars, e.c., address as above.
Does the advertiser mean to say, that musicians with two hands are so seldom to be met with, that he thus avows his preference for those who are so gifted? If it be true that as a rule musicians have one hand more commonly than two, the College of Surgeons should be acquainted with the fact, and should set their wits to work in some way to account for it. As far as our experience and memory will carry us, we cannot call to mind that we have ever seen a one-handed musician, and this makes us the more curious to hear, if we can do so, some statistics on the subject.
In the same paper we find another nut to crack, which, for hardness of its shell, compared to the foregoing, is as a Brazil nut to a Kentish filbert:-
To pianoforte players,- wanted, in a first-class establishment, in the North, for a Spirit Bar-parlour, a good pianoforte player who can also sing. A lame man would be preferred, the salary being moderate. The party suiting the engagement would be permanent. Address, &c.
Why a lame man should be here preferred because the salary is moderate, is a problem of more puzzlement then we have brains to solve. A lame man might indeed find it hard to use the pedal, and his piano-playing therefore might be somewhat imperfect. But this does not account for the preference professed for him; because, however moderate the salary might be, one would fancy that the advertiser would wish to get as good a player as he could for it; and might just as well have tried to get an able-legged performer, supposing one were not more expensive than a lame one. If we wished to please the public we should certainly not choose a lame performer for so doing; for however good a hand he might be with his fingers, he never could make much of a quick running accompaniment.
Very fishy.
Why is the Council about to meet in Paris like a great female eel?
Because it’s a Conger-ess.
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