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...prize winners. The contest will be under the supervision of the Society of the Friends of Music. The awards, in all, total $20,000. Franz Schubert sold many of his most beautiful creations for 20c. He submitted the "Erl-King" to Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipsic publishers. They, suspicious of the MS. from Vienna, wrote to one Franz Schubert of Dresden, Royal Church composer, inquired if he had submitted the song. The answer: "With the utmost astonishment I inform you that this cantata was never composed by me. I will use every endeavor to discover who has so discourteously sent you this...
...Ms. Ferguson has surrendered the governorship of Texas in a blaze of notoriety. During her term of office she has evinced an almost complete lack of executive ability and a strange predilection in favour of prisoners, over 3000 of whom she has pardoned. By a probably unprecedented reverse English on petticoat government, she is said to have been misdirected by her husband, former governor James Ferguson...
...James Matthew Barrie, anatomist of sentiment: " 'I have lost the use of my right hand,' I announced, in sending to a charity auction the MS. of my play The Old Lady Shows Her Medals. 'At the completion of that play my right hand (probably frightened at the sight of my calligraph) gave out,' said I, 'and I have ever since had to write with my left.' The MS., which fetched $1,025, was auctioned by Major Hon. John Jacob Astor, Chairman of the London Times Publishing Company; and William Harrison, who has been buying...