Orpheonist

This year, happens to be, leap year,—to ensure eternal amity between the two nations (for the people, after, all have the alternative of peace, or war, in their own hands;) what if the bachelor orpheonists of France, and the maidens of England, should take this opportunity of uniting themselves in lasting bonds as suggested in the orchestral painting, and settling the matter at once to the tune of the Wedding March?

Michel had engaged a dozen orpheonists, who sang very primitive Basque airs in chorus, accompanied by a species of shrill flageolet, the invariable refrain being Viva Imperatrisa!

On the 5th and 7th the festival of the French orpheonists will be held, and on the 8th there will be an international competition of orpheonists, with from 5000 to 6000 performers.

The orchestra and the orpheonists filled the sacred apsis.

The orpheonists, out of breath with the double exertion of singing and running, but keeping on their howl for all that, dragged after them their flag-bearers, with their flags flung over their shoulders.