Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-04-19
A MAN A MESMERIZER IN SPITE OF

NhEoHir.hlIER IN SPITE Ot
the Christmas of the yea,
1912, we dined at a friends hous, with a mar.
" oil eight (numeric perfection for a Dime,
party, according to the ingenious author of the
Originally IN the evening. Mackay's book on
popular decisions being on the d%rawing-room
table, some one asked if the author had treat.
ed oil mesmerism. Upon this, one of the par
ty, who had recently returned from London
q man who had lived a studious life. and of n
nlghlyf nervous temperament-said he had
lately witnessed a mesmeric exhibition. and
would undertake to mesmerize any one nres.
ent. Upon this, two or three ladies' yolum
teered as patients-and he commenced exper-
imenting upon a lady of some TWENTY-FIVE
years old, whom he had known intimately
rom childhood, clever, and well read, but
ratner imaginative. To make the thing more
RIDICULOUS, he knelt on both knees, and COM
menced making passes with both hands Slow.
~ before her eyes, telling her, whenever she
took her eyes off, to look fixedly at him. and
keeping a perfectly grave face when every
oody around was laughing unreservedly. AZ
yer this had endured Tor some three minutes.
the iady's eye gradually closed, she fell for,
wSiis, ana was only prevented farther falling
ny peing caught by the mesmeriser. HI shook
her' and IN a rather rough manner, brought
her TO her senses; then, suspicious lest She
mad been %purposely deceivinghim questioned
ner seriously as To whether her sleep was
ieigned or real. She assured him that il was
not simulated, that the sensation was irresist-
lpie, different from that of ordinary sleep. bv
no means unpleasant; and that the ONLY dis
as!eeane part was the being reused. Upon
inns the gentleman declared he knew NOTHING
oil mesmerism, and that, had he believed there
was any thing III it he would not have at
marfpa~the joke. Another lady present.
ahxi2is 10 have the -atGmily. was now most
ner. ape SAID she had before sat to an expe-
rienced Wesmesizer, who had failed and She
was sulIfncredulous, and believed NJ
iidu gwen way 10 All imaginative tennera-
ment. ~Itreauired considerable perstasion "a
induce the Gentleman who had before ouers'
ted, to try any more experiments. He pro-
tested that he knew nothing about it, that he
had once, seen a person said to be in the mes
menc state, but that if he succeeded again in
inducing coma, he knew not at all how To
awake the patient. Curiously enough, he was
instructed with the manipulation by the skep-
tcal patient, who had previously seen public
mesmeric exhibitions. After some further
persuasion, and with the permission of the
other lady's husband, who was present. he
commenced again the same passes as with the
former patient, the only difference being. that
ne was In this case sitting instead of kneeling.
N patient kept constantly bursting into
hts OF laughter, and as constantly apolog1isinp.
telling him that his gravity Of face was ire.
sisuble. Vi the other persons present, some
lauShed-others Were too much terrified tn
laugh, but they kept up a constant running
iire OF comment, s%atirical and serious, upon
the mesmeriser, and the mesmerisee. In four
or five minutes, the fits Of laughter of the lat.
ter assumed a rather unnatural character. II
was evident she forced herself to laugh in spite
OF the strongest disinclination, and in a min
ute or two more she fell into a state of
ghastly ~cataiepsy--the eyes wide open, but
the lids hxed-the features all rigid (except
the lower lip, which was convu1sive.) and
pale as a corpse. The bystanders. now much
frightened, interfered, and laid hold of the
mermerlser. After some time, water being
gwen her TO drink, she came TO herself. and
appeared not to have suffered from the exper-
ment'"|lBlackwood's Magazine.
GREAT LAND SALE-Edward J. Black
as tne Attorney OF the State of Indiana. ad,
Vei,ises Tor sale three hundred thousand acres
VI iand IN Georgia, which formerly belonged
~ we Georgia lumber company, and by9 il
conveyed to the State of Indiana. The Ia,ds
are located in the counties of Telfa;r Mn.
gomeIy, Latuens, Pulaski, Wilkinson an1
ia'hail, and some of them are much imnyo,aI
EUMPTlON.--The man spokep M :, ,ho
following paragraph will never be hung III.
genius Will save him, no matter i'm what eY1
tremity he may be placed.
"A IRE lately broke out in a four story b,;Id
ing IN New York, and the smoke and 0s,nes
winch assembled from the lower part nj ,Lo
building, efiectually prevented the escape of
nos n VINO were IN the upper stories. A fc-
NIL IRAN lNaA. H.