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Evening Star, Issue 7473, 17 March 1888, Page 3

Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a brightness over everything, It is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude. As Haydn, the composer, was amusing himself one morning iu shopping he int|uired of tho music-seller if he had any select and beautiful music. " Certainly," replied the shopman ; " I have just printed some sublime music of Haydn's." " Ob,' returned Haydn, "I'll have nothing to do with that." "How, sir? You will have nothing to do with Haydn's music ? And pra.y what fault have you to find with it ?" " Oh, plenty ; but it's uselcsß talking about it since it does not suit me ; show me some other." The music-seller, who was a warm Haydnist, replied : " No, sir ; I have music, it is true, but not for such as you " ; and turned his back upon him. Aa Haydn was going away smiling a gentleman of his acquaintance entered and accosted him by name. The music-seller, still out of humor, turned at the name, and. said to the person who had just entered the shop : " Haydn ! Aye, here is a fellow who says ha doesn't like that great man's music." The Englishman laughed, an explanation took place, and the music-seller was for tho future acquainted with the man who found fault with Haydn's music. " How is it, Sheridan, that your namohaa not 'O' attached to it? Your family is Irish and no doubt illustrious." "No family had a better right to 'O' than our family," said Sheridan, " for we owe everybody."