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and artillery a few batteries going off by electricity so as to touch them off in good time.  One little page of Beethovens music played quietly at home would give a musician [[strikethrough]] more [[/strikethrough]] satisfaction than all the anvils and cannons in the world [[strikethrough]] even [[/strikethrough]] except a Bostonian one.  I guess it was a speculation affair altogether.  The Bostonians are a very sharp people.

Grand Peace Jubilee.  The grandest and glorioustest music entertainment ever seen in the known world will be given at the Boston Colyseum.  The chief performers have been engaged at an immense outlay amongst the fire department of Boston & will appear in a new costume expertly ordered for the occasion.  The new [[strikethrough]] apparatus [[/strikethrough]] electric apparatus for touching off the batteries has been invented perfected and installed by Professor Smythe of the Boston University ABBCCDDEFG perfectly regardless of price.
The choruses are so large that there is a difference of half a [[strikethrough]] note [[/strikethrough]] bar in time from the first to the last row of singers.
The choicest works of Beethoven Mozart & Weber have been carefully selected by Professor Jones of the Boston Normal School & set to music by a select committee of Boston gentlemen.

A small pamphlet containing all the principal terms [[strikethrough]] used [[/strikethrough]] of musical criticism & teaching the correct method of using them, enabling any one of ordinary ability to criticize [[strikethrough]] the nos [[/strikethrough]] correctly the most difficult & perfect music after 10 minutes careful reading is sold at the door & at the book stores.  Price 15 cents.  No gentleman will be without one.

The roads for the cannons are [[strikethrough]] compose for [[/strikethrough]] selections from the opera of Rienzi & other chef d'oeuvres de Herr Wagner & are the finest specimens of sheet music & printing ever imported into this country.  They were got out expressly for the occasion [[strikethrough]] at a gue [[/strikethrough]] at Leipzig by the celebrated maison of Breittkopf & Loggerhead, all regardless of expense.

[[strikethrough]] Mr. Morrissey [[/strikethrough]] The honorable Mr. Morrissey MC. has kindly tendered his services to beat the huge drum eight yards in