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r THE MAGIC ART.
Some remarkable illusions and
UNEXPLAINED TRICKS.
“ito Wonderful Performances of a Party
of Traveling Magicians in Anam —
Materializations in Broad Day
light—A Decapitation.
[Philadelphia Times.]
“It’s rather a curious fact,” said a gentle
man and unprofessional prestidigitateur,
“that none of the shows and circuses that
use so many adjectives in describing what
they have got do not bring to this country a
really fine troupe of magicians. It may be
possible that they will not come, but it cer
tainly would be a paying investment, as the
people in the United States have no ade
quate idea of the tricks that are executed by
some of the jugglers of the east.
“The finest exhibition I ever witnessed,”
Continued the speaker, “was in Anam. I
was traveling through the country with a
party of G rman officials, when we stopi>ed
one night at an inn where it chanced that
a number of magicians were resting. There
were six of them, four men and two women,
all very small, except one, who was a fleshy
giant, resembling the typical wrestlers. I
soon made their acquaintance, as I was then
greatly interested in legerdemain, and soon
won their good will. They wore very eager
for me to show them an exhibition of my
skill. I did so, but in every case they
caught me and laughed at my efforts, ex
cepting once. Though I tried some of our
best tricks upon them, curiously enough, the
most stupid thing of all fooled them. It
was the old “Pharaoh’s serpents” trick,
which was so much in vogue some years ago.
“After I had finished my exhibition the
doors were clod, and only those admitted
who paid a regular admittance fee—a small
sum—and soon the apartment being filled
the magicians began their performance.
The audience sat on the floor about the
fakirs, so that they had no way of conceal
ing themselves or of hiding any thing. At
their reque t1 examined them and satisfied
myself that they bad nothing about them.
Then one of the women stepped into the in
closure, the rest remaining behind the spec
tators, who formed a close ring around them.
The light was now turned down a little, and
In a moment the woman’s face began to be
illumined by a ghostly light that extended
quickly over her entire body. She then be
gan to move round and round, uttering a
low, murmuring sound the while, gradually
quickening the pace until she was whirling
about like a top.
“A moment of this and the light that had
clung about her seemed to be whirled off by
centrifugal force, and assumed a pillar-like
form beside her. As soon as this was ac
complished she stopped, turned, and began
to mold the light with her hands, and,
though I could distinctly see her hands
move through the light as if it were a cloud,
it began to assume human form. We saw
the arms, hands and legs all molded, and
finally a face and headgear. She next
called for a light, and, the candles being re
lighted there stood an utter stranger, a na
tive seemingly evolved out of cloudland.
He stepped forward and grasped me by the
hand; his hands were moist, as if with per
spiration, and he was a very healthy spirit.
After he bad talked and drank a glass of
rack, he took his place beside the woman
again and began to whirl about.
“The lights were dimmed, but not so that
we could not see, and in a few moments the
figure began to fade, soon assuming the ap
pearance of a pillar or form of light and
then attaching itself to the woman and
seemingly being absorbed by her. All this
was done in a vei y short space of time, be
fore the eyes of at least fifty people, and not
ten feet from myself. The girl appeared
greatly exhausted afterward. Now this
would be explained by the Psychological
society as sdme new sense or power, etc., but
between you and I, who know that all
things can be explained by cold facts, it
was merely a clever trick, so skillfully done
that I did not discover it in any way or
shape.
“The man next took his place in the ring,
and, handing me a large, highly ornamented
sabre, he said: ‘ln five minutes by the clock
I wish you to behead me.’ I objected, of
course, but he insisted, and said it had been
done a dozen times, so I finally agreed. He
was searched, and in the dim light began
to contort himself in strange positions until
he seemed to grow perceptibly smaller, and
finally stood before us so gauzy that I
thought I could see right through him. It
was now five minutes, so 1 took the sabre
and struck a light blow, only sufficient
to knock a man over, when, to my
horror, the blood spurted into my face and
the head dropped with a thud upon the floor.
As soon as it fell the body stooped and
picked it up, held it in the air, then placed
it upon the shoulders. The full light being
turned on, there stood the giant, grinning
and warm.
“The blood? That had faded away by the
time the light was turned up and, you must
remember, that in all this though the light
was dim it was not sufficient to prevent our
seeing every thing, and seemed to be ued
only that we might observe the figures of
lights that were evolved so curiously from
the mediums, as our spiritualists would call
them.
“The next trial was equally mystical. All
the party now stepped into the ring and be
gan to chant and move about. In a few
minutes they ceased and we observed that
one was missing, though no one saw him go.
A moment after the whirling was repeated
and another was found to have disappeared,
and so on until in fifteen minutes only the
giant was seen. More light being given us,
a noise was heard at the door and, upon
some one going to it, there stood the mystic
five clamoring for admission. That ended
the performance for the night and I sat up
the rest of it, or well into the morning, try
ing to figure out how it was all done. The
natives accepted it as magic without debate,
and I began to think that was about the
easiest way out of it.
“The following day another performance
wes given at mid-day that was even more
wonderful. The giant, as I called him,
caused the audience to sit on a grass plat,
leaving a circle of about twenty-five feet
across, and in this the jugglers took their
places, the giant opening the entertainment
by taking a roll of ribbon, and by a dexter
ous toss sending it up fifty feet or so, where
we distinctly saw a small hawk dart at it
and carry it up higher until we nearly lost
sight of it. It then seemed to enter a cloud
that, I assumed, was caused by something
burning on the ribbon; but from the cloud
came sliding down, first a dog, then a snake
—a good big one, too—that wriggled off the
moment it touched the ground and was cap
tured by the men.
Then a larger object was seen sliding along
and one of the women leaping forward re
ceived and held it out to the crowd, a laugh
ing native baby. The giant had all this
tints held the end of the ribbon and releas
ing it it seemed to disappear in the air; at
any rate it no more. Afew moments
later they all joined hands and began to
move about rapidly. When they moved to
t ho right I distinctly counted twelve persons
in the circle; when they changed the move
ment we saw only eight and some one ap
peared to standing in the center.
“These are only samples of the marvels, as
I might say, that they went through.”
Novel Mode of Extinguishing a Fire.
[Pattersouville (Iowa) Cor. Scientific American.]
We had what seemed to us rather a novel
mode of extinguishing a fire. Fob. 16, the
sexton of the Congregational church built a
fire in the furnace and left it to heat up the
church. On his return to ring the bell for
services he discovered the audience and fur
nace room densely filled with smoke; he at
once rang the alarm. A crowd soon col
lected, but, in the absence of any apparatus
for extinguishing fire, all hopes ware given
up of saving the building, as the fire was
under the floor between the joists.
Dr. N. G. O. Coad went to his store and
procured two or three buckets full of com
mon soda and a bucket full of sulphuric
acid; the water was then poured on the
soda, and the acid emptied in a tub full of
water. The windows were then opened, in
order to lift the smoke from the room. The
material thus preps red was emptied into the
register of furnace; the experiment was a
success, as the fire was extinguished in
stantly. The floor was then partly torn up
to make sure, when it was found that a
large number of the joists were entirely
burned through. The church was saved,
and the entire business portion of the vil
lage, as the wind was blowing a gale; and
nothing but frame buildings, mercury down
20 degrees below zero, and a scarcity of
water, presented rather a gloomy aspect to
the citizens.
Cuba's Best Tobacco.
[Cor. Indianapolis Journal.]
Havana tobacco can be harvested but
once a year. Attempts have been made to
obtain two crops annually, but these have
been unsuccessful. The best tobacco is
known under the name of tobacco de la
vuelta de abajo. It grows in the regions of
the small rivers in the Sierras de losOranjos.
Each year this part of the island is over
flown, and a heavy, rich quality of alluvium
is deposited on the soil. Irrigation has
proved a failure in Cuba. In the growing
season a heavy dew falls each night, but the
soil, which is a red loam, becomes dry
quickly, and absorbs a great deal of mois
ture. Only one good crop can be assured in
each five years.
The Third Wife’s Bliss.
[Chicago Times.]
A rather novel conception of heavenly
bliss has just been promulgated by a devout
widow, who had been her husband’s third
wife. The future she looked for was to be
permitted to sit at the feet of her beloved
husband, his other better-halves sitting one
on his right hand the other on his left, and
all singing psalms of praise.
Beauties in tv nite.
[Dublin Letter.]
Eight hundred ladies were presented to
the princess of Wales at her “drawing room”
in Dublin. Fancy the ghostly effect of 800
white frocks collected together and unre
lieved by a single touch of color. It was a
trying hour for the mature beauties.
The Odd Circumstance.
[Arkansaw Traveler.]
Its de odd sarcumstance dat ketches de
man on de hip. We ginnerally knows how
ter han’le de sarcumstances whut ain’t odd,
case we knows dar tricks. I ne'pr wants ter
box wider lef’ handed man nor rassle wid
or bcw-laiged pusson.
A Substitute for Base Ball.
[Norristown Herald.]
A sporting paper contains an article en
titled: “How to Prevent Accidents in the
Game of Base Ball ” This difficulty may be
overcome by the substitution of garden-dig
ging for base ball. A young man who is
digging garden never gets injured by run
ning the bases or by the tat flying out of
another player’s hand, though when he gets
through with the game he may be induced
to think he has exchanged backs with a man
197 years old.
Photos of Colored People.
[Chicago Times.]
Colored people are more successfully photo
graphed, as a rule, than white people are,
says an experienced photographer, the me
dium mulatto making the finest photograph
in the world. Light complexions are hard
est to take and light-colored clothing does
not look well in pictures. It is impossible tz
photograph a diamond, as it looks like e peb
cle or a fish scale.
A Prolific Inventor.
[Exchange.]
The largest number of patents received
from the United States patent office in one
week by one person was issued recently to
a Cincinnati gentleman. The financial
clerk of the patent office says the final fees,
$520, for twenty-six patents paid by him, is
the largest amount for this purpose ever
paid into the office at one time.
The Russian Navy.
[Exchange.]
The archduke Alexis is credited with
bringing the Russian navy up to a high state
of efficiency. The Vassische Zeitung says
Russia aims to become the second naval
power and has already made rapid strides in
that direction. She has fine fleets in the
Baltic and the Black sea and a large flotilla
on her Siberian coast
A Hint to Justice.
[Chicago Herald.]
In a Missouri court some time ago an il
literate person was sentenced to jail till he
could learn to write, and another was sen
tenced till he could teach the former the art.
In a little over three weeks the prisoner re
appeared, able to write a fair letter at dic
tation, and both men were discharged.
Fan-making has been one of the leading
industries of Japan for over 1,000 years,
“Hunt’s Remedy is valuable and its bene
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disease.” Sullivan Fenner,
Providence, R. I.
American Institute on Grapes and Wine,
orunlcnness, or the Liquor Habit Can
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I It can be given in a cup of coffee or tea
without the knowledge of the person taking
1, effecting a speedy and permanent cure,
vhethe-r the patient is a moderate drinker or
in alconolic wreck. Thousands of drunkards
lave been made temperate men who have
aken the Golden Specific in their coffee
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\BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 7
DEAF AND BLIND.
How an Atlanta Woman was
Made to See and Hear.
AN INTERESTING STORY.
Miss Minnie Wallaoe resides with Mrs.
George Fickland, 41 McAfee street. Atlanta,
Ga., and from her own lips a Constitution re
porter learned the following story:
Several months ago she became almost to
tally blind and deaf, and could not tas’e any
thing except silt. Her bones became the seat
ot Intense pain, her joints were swollen and
painful, and eventually her whole body and
limbs became covered with splotches and
small sores. Her appetite failed, and she
gradually lost flesh andstrengih, and had but
little use of herself, as her limbs and muscles
were paralyzed She, as well as her friends
and those with whom she lived, despaired of
her recovey. Her sufferings, combined with
loss of hearing and taste, and blindness, were
truly heartrending.
All treatment from physicians and the use
of medicines seemed powerless. Her dis
ease was blood poison and rheumatism.
As she now seemed well and hearty the re
porter asked what wrought such a wonderful
change.
“I used a medicine recommended by a
friend,” she replied, “and before one bottle
had been taken I began to see and hear. The
second bottle relieved all rheumatic pains
and improved my appetite. When I had com
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1 now feel as well as I ever did, and my
friends, as well as myself, are astonished.”
“What was the Medicine?” asked the re
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any unpleasant symptoms from its use, and
its action is so quick that it surprises all.”
The reporter then sought a physician who
knew the case, whereupon he handed us the
following lines:
“1 examined the above case of blood poison
and rheumatism, before and after being
cured, and certify to the main facts above
stated, and must acknowledge that the B. B.
B. effected a most wonderful cure in this
well-known case.
[Signed] “J P. DROMGOOLE, M. D.”
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