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History of a Wooden Shoe.
Towards the end of September, 1832, it
was announced amongst the artistic circles
of Paris that Nicolo Paganini had fallen se
riously ill, at the conclusion of a grand con
cert given by the illustrious violinist. He
was attacked by a low intermittent fever,
which refused to yield to the remedies em
ployed, and even gave rise to apprehension
for his life.
Paganini, whose leanness was already al
most spectral, now seemed to have his frail
existence suspended by a thread, which the
slightest shock might sever. The physic
ians unanimously ordered solitude, abso
lute repose, and a strict regimen as to diet
In order to carry out these prescriptions,
Paganini removed to the Villa Lutetiana, in
Faubourg Poissonniers. This excellent es
tablishment which no longer exists, was in
tended exclusively for the reception and
cure of wealthy invalids. A spacious com
fortable house stood in a large, park-like
garden, where each patient could ramble at.
will, and enjoy either solitude or society at
his choice. A great charm of this house
was that every one lived just as he or she
pleased: in the evening either retiring to
the solitude of his apartment, or joining in
the games, music, and conversation held in
the drawing-room. Paganini naturally be
longed to those who preferred parsing the
evenings in quietness and retirement. —
There was plenty of gossip about him in
the drawing room ; three or four censorious
old maids fell on him tooth and nail.
“Ladies,” began one, “have you seen this
great musician ? He salutes no one, and
never speaks a word. He takes his bowl of
soup in an arbor in the garden, and then
hastens away if any one approaches. What
an oddity he must be !”
1 “That’s part of bis malady,” said another;
“people say that there is some terrible mys
tery about his life; some love-story, I im
agine.”
“Not at all,” added a third; “Paganini
is a miser; there’s no mystery about that
Do you remember that concert which
was organiz ’d in favor of the famlies w r ho
had suffered from the inundation at St.
Etienne ? The great violinist refused to take
part in it because he would have had to play
gratuitously. Depend upon it he fears that
were he to mix in our society he might be
asked for similar favors.”
Paganini guessed pretty well how ho was
regarded by his fellow-boarders, but, like
Gallio of old, he cared for none of these
things. Hi health became gradually bet
ter, vet in tho whole house ho never ex
changed a word with any one except Ni
cette. This was the housemaid who at
tended on him; a cheerful, innocent coun
try-girl, whose gay prattle, when she served
his meals, often availed to dispel the cloud
which habitually darkened the brows of
Paganini.
One morning Nicette presented herself
with a sad, drooping countenance, and serv
ed breakfast without uttering a word. The
musician, who was amusing himself with
carving a piece of ivory for the handle of a
dagger, noticed the change in the young
girl, and questioned her upon it.
“What’s the matter, my child ? You look
sad; your eyes are red ; some misfortunes
has belallen you, Nicctte !”
“Oh, yes! sir.”
“Would it he indiscreet to ask you what
it is ?”
“No sir, not precisely ; but ”
Paganiui fixed his large black eyes on the
girl’s troubled countenance.
“Come,” he said, “I see how it is. After
having made you a thousand promises lie has
quitted you, and you no longer have any ti
dings of him.”
“Ah! poor fellow ! he has quitted me
certainly, but it was not his fault!”
“How is that ?”
“Because in the conscription he drew a
bad number, and he has been sent away with
a great long gun on his shoulder,and I shall
never see him again,” sobbed poor Nicette,
and she buried her face in her white apron.
“But, Nicette, could you not purchase a
substitute for him
The girl, withdrawing her apron, smiled
sadlj through her tears.
“Monsieur is jesting,” she said : “how
could I ever buy a substitute
“Does it cost very dear?”
“This year men are tremendously dear on
account of the report that there is going to
be a war. Fifteen hundred francs is the
lowest price.”
The musioian pressed Nicette’s little
plump hand between his long sallow fingers,
as he said:
“If that’s all, my girl, don’t cry; we’ll see
what can be done.”
Then taking out his pocket-book, he
wrote on a blank leaf:—
“Mem. To see about giving a concert
for the benefit of Nicette.”
A month passed on; winter arrived, and
Paganini’s physician said to him:
“My dear sir, you must not venture out
doors again until after the month of
March.”
“To hear is to obey,” replied the musi
cian.
During the winter a comparative degree
of health returned to Paganini. Having
no longer the pleasant, shady arbors of the
garden as a refuge, he began gradually to
linger a little in the drawing room. After
dinner he used to throw himself on a sofa
of crimson velvet, and pass half an hour in
turning over a volume of engravings, or in
sipping a glass of sugared water flavored
with orange flowers. The old ladies of the
society goseipped on about him and his odd
ways, but he affected not to hear, and cer
tainly did uot heed them.
Christmas-eve approached. On the an
niversary of the birth of Our Lord, a cus
tom exists in France, very dear to its juven
ile inhabitants. A wooden shoe is placed
at the corner of the hearth, and a beneficent
fairy is supposed to come down the chimney
laden with various presents and dainties
with which he fills it. It is calculated that
one year with another the Christmas wooden
shoe enriches the trade of Paris with two
million francs.
On the morning of the 24th December
four of Paganini’s female critics were in
consultation together.
“It will be for this evening,” said one.
“Yes, for this evening; that’s settled,”
replied another.
After dinner Paganini was, according to
his custom, seated on the drawing room sofa
sipping his eou sucree, when an unusual
noi»e was heard in the corridor. Presently
Nicette entered, and announced that a porter
had arrived with a ease, directed to Signor
Paganini.
“I don’t expect any case,” said he “but 1
suppose he had better bring it in.”
Accordingly, a stout porter entered, bear
ing a good sized deal box, on which, besides
the address, were the words, “Fragile, with
care.” Paganini examined it with some
curiosity, and having paid the messenger,
proceeded to open the lid. His long, thin,
but extremely muscular fingers accomplished
this task without difficulty, and the compa
ny whose curiosity caused them somewhat
to transgress the bounds of good manners,
crowded around in order to see the contents
of the box.
The musician first drew cut a large packet,
enveloped in strong brown paper, and se
cured with several seals. Having opened
this, a second, and then a third envelope ap
peared; and at length the curious eyes of
twenty persons were regaled with a gigantic
wooden shoe, carved out of of a pieceof ash,
and almost large enough to serve for a child’s
cradle. Bursts of laughter hailed this dis
covery.
“Ah !” said Paganini, “a wooden shoe.
I can guess tolerably well who has sent it.
Some of these excellent ladies wish to com
pare me to a child who always expects pres
ents and never gives any. Well ! be it so.
We will see if we cannot find some method
of making this shoe worth its weight in
gold.”
So saying, and scarcely saluting the com
pany, Paganini withdrew to his own apart
ment, carrying with him the case and its
contents.
During three days he did not reappear in
the drawing-room; Nicette informed the
company that he worked from morning till
night with carpenter’s tools. In fact, the
musician whose hands were wondrously
flexible and dexterous in other things besides
violin playing, had fashioned a perfect and
sonorous instrument out of the clumsy wood
en shoe. Having enriched it with one sil
ver string, his work was complete. Next
day a public notice appeared that, on New
Year’s Eve, Paganini would give a concert
in the large hall of the Villa Lutetiana.—
The gveat master announced that lie would
play ten Dieces, five on a violiu, five on a
wooden shoe. The price of the tickets was
fixed at twenty francs each. Os these only
one hundred were issued, and it is needless
to add that they were immediately pur
chased by the elite of the beau monde , who,
during several months, had missed the
pleasure of hearing Paganini. The appoint
ed evening arrived ; the hall, furnished with
comfortable chairs, was prepared and light
ed for the occasion, elegant equipages were
stationed along the Faubourg Poissonniere,
and expectation was on tip toe to know what
the announcement respecting the wooden
shoe could possibly mean.
At length Paganini appeared, smiling,
with every appearance of reuewed health,
and on his favorite violin played some
strains, which never failed to transport his
auditors to the seventh heaven of delight.
Then he seized the shoe, which, in its new
guise of a violin, still preserved somewhat
of its pristine form, and, his whole being
lighted up with enthusiasm, he commenced
one of those wondrous improvisations which
captivated the souls of his hearers. This
one represented first the departure of a con
script, the tears, the wailing ot his betrothed,
then his stormy life in the camp, and on
the field of battle, and finally, his return,
accompanied by triumph and rejoicing. A
merry peal of wedding-bells completed the
musical drama. Long and loud were the
thunders of applause; even the old ladies
who disliked Paganini could not refrain
from clapping, and boquets, thrown by fair
and jeweled hands, fell at the feet of the
musician. In a corner of the hall, next to
the door, Nicette was weeping bitterly; the
symphony of the conscript had gone straight
to her heart. At the end of the concert the
receipts were counted, they amounted to two
thousand francs.
“Here, Nicette,’’ said Paganini, “youhave
five hundred francs over the sum required
to purchase a substitute : they will pay your
bridegroom’s travelling expenses.”
Then, after a pause, he continued, “But
you will want something herewith to begin
housekeeping. Take this shoe-violin or this
violin-shoe, and sell it for your dowry.”
Nicette did so, and received from a rich
amateur six thousand francs for Paganini’s
wooden shoe.
It is now, we believe, in the possession of
an English nobleman, who was formerly
British Ambassador at Paris.
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Remarkably characterised By vivacity and variety in
the selections, and by clearness in the directions' and
the rules that they contain ; they have added to the
reading exercises of our classes that interest ami de
light which properly belong to them and which we
consider essential to rapid improvement
It has been my privilege to examine F.utler’s Gram
mar, and lam free to state that I consider it one of
the very best Grammars that we have. Following the
same g-neral plan as Bullions it is, in many points,
decidedly superior to that work. If. el assured that
after a fair trial of Butler, nearly all of those teachers
who are now using Bulliuii’s vvoulo permanently sub
stitute Butler.
The handsome and intelligib'e style in which the
house of Jno. P. M ron & Cos. get up their School
Books, constitutes no small recommendation to the r
adoption.
JNO.M BONN ELL,
President.
PROF SMITH’S OPINION OF THE ARITHMETIC.
A striking feature of Towne’s Arithmetic, is that rt
contains no supeifluisies.
Most cf the Arithmetics are cumber and with l-uany
thing- which the pupils never earn, and are never ex
pected to learn. Prof. Towne has studiid<o densa
tmn aud brevity in the enunciation of rules d> fi itions
and principles, and he has shown this st Idom if ever,
at the expense cf clearness. Percentage with it-; ap
plications, is presented in a manner new and origi
nal, but very cleai and satisfactory The chapter on
Ratio and Proportion is an excel ent one. Wo ven
ture to say that it is inferior to the corresponding
part of no work in u e in this country. Upon the
wk le. we think that this hook is en: iti and to. place
in the first rank of Arithmetics, and we at all r j .ice
to hear ofits general.:ntroduction into our -eh ols.
O. W S IIT 11,
Prof. Math. W. F. College.
PROF. POLHILL’S TESTIMONY.
Orange Street School, )
Macon, Ga., July 20th, 1866. j
It gives ire great pleasure to recommend to all in
structors of youth, the whole Series <fGo •< roll’s
Readers, edited by Noble But er A. M. Ila ve used
all of them in my school sin e 1858. and that iln-m fet
ter adapted to the u-e of ehools, than a y books 'hat
I have used during an experience of fourteen years
as a teacher
The chief recommendation of these Books, is the
easy gradation ol the senes from number on**, to six,
by wnich the pupil is led almost imperceptibly, f < m
the simp!e-t less, ns, to reading from the r.e-t English
Classics. To learn to read rapidly and well. t,.e pupil
must, read understanding!y, and for this purpose these
Books excel all others that I have used.
BENI. M. POL MILL.
REV HOSIER HBNDF.E LVTE PRESIDENT OF G*:EEXBBORO COL
LEGE, ADDS HIS TESTIMONY FOR THESE BOOKS.
Y cng Ladies’ Academy, )
Macon, Ga., July 21-t, 1860\ j
It affords me p'easure to eo" mend such Cooks as
are adapted to me wants of our school-, at. the i res
ent time. Asa teaci er of Young Ladas or twenty
years, it wou’d have saved mo much labor t > have
had. what I now regard as treasures, in ‘ the Prim try
and Practical English Grammar,” and the s ries of
School Readers (Goodrich’s first to sixth) .edited by
Noble Butler, A. M Toese books are severa lv suited
co the puipos s intended. Th • Grammars fi i a place
ursuppl eu before. T e Sixth Read r alone, or in
connection with Bronson’s Elocution, canno' fail to
faci itaje th * plans of instruction in this dt ligi.tfut and
beautiful art. ,
I have just examined and am delighted with the
Arithmetic and Algebra, by Pr f. Towne, and shall in
troduce tt em at once into mv school
HOMER HENDEF.
Our Agent for the Slate cf Georgia, is Rev. A. R.
MACEY. who will call in p rs ri upon the Teachers < f
the State a- rapidly as possible O'rs is ihe only
Southern house engilg -d ; n the publico ion of chool
Books Thi- we ••xp'ci no int log. to nun to consid
er a valid reason f r adopting an infe.ior book; we
present ihe statement morel, as an inducement ior
Southern men to examine our books, which we wish,
and expect to stand on their merits. These books
nr** use ' by the best teachers in Virginia. A abania,
Mississippi, Missouri, Louisiana. Tennessee. Georgia,
and more recently ad< pted by the Slate Educati nal
Convention of Texas, as th*- tepet books, to be used in
the schools of the state. Wh fee 1 just tied in prod ct
ing that they will become the SIv.ND.iKD SCHOOL
BOOKS, throughout the South
Messrs. J. W. Buike&Co., Macon, Gu, keep
constantly on hand, a large supply of our pub ications,
for the trade, and will furnish copies f>r examination
gratis, upon application from Teachers. Lptters to
t e General Agent. Rev. A. R. Macpy, must be directed
to the cure of J. W. Burke & Cos., Macon, Ga.
Very Respectfu’Ty.
. JNO. P. MORTON & • .
THE
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