Mobile register and journal., 1845-10-07
From Chambers Edinburgh Journal.
IuGGLERS OLE INDIA.

THE convention friend recently arrived from India
enables to notice two Of the surprising perfor
mances the ugglers ofthst country, which, though aml
liar to persons acquainted with masters be
| new to many ofthe readers of those pages
A parry of juggers came forward on one occasion
TO perform publicly the yard Of the barracks of
Madras. Eany hundred of people, Of all kinds, ages
| and denominations, including the soldery of the es-
| 'ablishment, assembled to witness the exhibition,
| and some little temporary arrangements were made
that all might hear conveniently. The leader OF the
jugglers, who all, of course, natives of Hndos
tan, requested The commanding officer 10 place
guard Of men around the of dsplay-a precau-
ton which was adopted, and proved very wise
The floor of the COURT be il observed, composed
of sand, firm and well rodden. On this ground then,
after some preliminary tricks of an inferior kind,
one man left alone with ii little girl, the latter
| seeming about or years old. Beside them stood
ii tall narrow basket, perhaps or feet high, by
little more than foot in width and open at the top.
No other object, living or inanmate, appeared upon
the ground. After short period spent by the man
in conversng with the girl, he seemed 10 get angry
and began to rail loudly at her for her neglect Of
some wish OF his. The child attempted TO sooihe
him, hut he continued 10 show increased degree
| Of irritation rs he went BY degrees he lashed
himself into such apparent fury that the foam actually
stood upon his lips, and being naturally Of an unpre
possessing countenance, he looked TO the white spec
tators at least as like enraged demon might lie.
Finally his wrath at the girl seemingly to
controllable height; and he seized her and put her
beneath the basket or rather turned the open mouth
of the basket over her person. She was thus shut
entirely up the turned bottom of The basket closing
her in above Having thus disposed of the child, in
spite of her screams and entreates, the man drew
his sword, which bright as the surface of a
mirror, and he appeared as il about to wreak some
further evil on the object of his ireland after some
moments, during which he talked to himself and to
the enclosed girl, if juslfying his anger, he did
actually at length plunge the sword down into the
hal u.a.t u al, l.A
least bood-ed drops! The child screamed piteously
from her prison, but in VAIN; for the man plunged
the weapon again and again into the scene Of her
confinement As he did so, the cries Of the girl be-
came faint by degrees, and in the end died away al
together. The ded Of death was coasummated.
So, al least thought most Of the horror struck per-
sous vino witnessed this action. And well il was
for the performer in it that he requested guard
TO be placed. for it required all the exertions of this
guard TO prevent the aroused sodiery, who believed
this to be no trick. but dabolcal buchery, from
eaping intn the arena and tearing the pieces
The excitable freshman among the number in parti-
cular, ground their teeth against one another, and
uttered language not very complimentary to The Jug
gler Even the officers, whose better education and
experience made them less open 10 such fee lings,
grew pale with aneasiness. But observe the issue
of all this.
When the man seemed 10 have carried his rage
TO the last extremity warned, perhaps, by the looks
of the soldiers that It wodd be well close the
exhibition without delay, he raised his bloody sword
for moment before the eyes Of the assemblage, aud
then struck The basket smarily with it, The basket
tumbled over on side, and the spot which it had
covered bn place Of the expected corpse of The girl
whose last groans had just been heard, there
seen--noihing! No vesiage Of dress, or any other
thing to indicate that the girl had ever been there.
The amazement Of the spectators WIS unbuunded,
and il if possible, rendered more intense, when,
after the lapse of few seconds, the identical little
girl came bounding from the side of the court yard
from among the spectators feet seemed, and clasp
ed the jugger around the knees with every sign Of
Affection and without tie slightest marks Of having
Undergone any injury whatever. We have said the
astonisbment of The assembly was im,nea surable;
and it might really well be SO, seeing that the feat
was performed 10 the centre Of court every point
Of the circumference Of which was crowded with
spectators whose eyes we're never off the performers
for one instant. As to the notion of subterranean
PASSAGE The nature Of the ground put that out of the
question, and. besides, that nothing Of that Kind
listed was made plain TO all who choose 10 satisfy
themselves on The subject by boxing al the OF
periorma noes when they had closed. Every was
sure that The girl had been put below the basket, and
that she did not get out of it 10 the natural way
Blu, she did get out, and howl 1t 10 impossible to
saw, though there can be no doubt that it was ac-
conplished by some sklllu mannuvre.
A somewhat similar feat is sometimes performed
with animals A juggler will place lean dog be-
low one Of the baskets, and presto, pass! when he
lifts up you will behold litter of ms fine pups
er whipper-in could desire. But most people will
probably think the trec-trck more wonderful one
than any of these. A juggler in performing this,
chooses either small spot Of earth, of the extent of
two or three feet square, aud fills il with mould for
his purpose Either of the ways will do. Having
this small plat Of earth before him. and his specta-
tors ranged around ut distance Of two three feet
lie isgglsr shows 70 The ssmPays nsngo slspe, Of