Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-08-08
The DeVilman.

The Liverpool correspondent of the Boston Daily
Advertiser gives the following account of
cromancer who has been astonishing the French and
is coming TO astonsh the Londoners
The London swes, ever, like the people of Athens
craving for some excitement, ale eagerly anti
cipatng the visit of Slgnor RagaZZoni, magnetism
of such extraordinary powers that the Italians call
him the Man Devil,' or the Devilman,' forget
exactly which, nor does it much matter. The Sig.
nor, from extreme distance from another apart
ment can, it is said, strike senseless any one whom
he selects as his patient, or perhaps, should say,
his victim. He is the first whose power has been
strong enough TO stop the pulsation of the heart
At St. Cloud, in the presence Of the Emperor, and
large circle of visitors, he performed the other day
some OF his surprising experiments. He placed him
self at the end of long gallery the palace, and
upon receiving memorandum in writing, ind eating
the person chosen from among the company to be
an example of his power, outstretched his hand to-
wards the victim who instantly fell, struck as by
lighening stiff and senseless to the floor, and thus
remained to all appearance, dead, SO long as the Sig
nor wiled Another gesture the part of the mag
netser, and the patient rises, staring with neffdble
amazement around and wondering what the whole
| thing is about, staggers to his seat
| The most curious experiment at St. Cloud was
made upon young Italian singer Gemae) just
rived from Florence, who introduced under the
auspices of the Princess Mathilde, and who sung
with great ecLnt the andante of Vaccas bravura LIE
Romeo In the allegro, which follows, the singer
was in the act of executing some particularly bril-
| liant passage, Wnen Cne Emperor; VINO was seated al
the further end of the room, made sign to RagaZZo-
nj The latter stretched forth his hand towards the
lady, when suddenly, as if some internal power had
seized her within its grasp, she stopped with staring
eyes and mouth wide open. The unfinished note
died away, and after two or three gupng efforts she
gazed around terror and then fell forward on the
piano and bust into tears.
Her voice was paralyzed, and in answer to the kind
solicitations of those around her not in the secret
and who thought she was i'll, she could only point to
her throat with pteous expression of countenance
and shake her head in despair. another sign from
the Emperor, RagaZzon withdrew his magnetic spell,
and the cantatrce gave way to her pent-up words in
torrents of thanks at being liberated from distress
) sing bondage. She could not be persuaded how.
| ever, to finish the piece.
THE ANT THAT FIGHTS ITsELF-The insects, as
/, have often said are countless swarm everywhere,
and everything Their tenaclty OF lie is most anus
ing. I have told you of the manner in which one
half of bull dog ant fights the other, if cut in two.
saw an instance of it just now. One giant cut one
in two that was annoying him. The head immedi-
atev seized the body with its mandible, and the body
heosn singing away manfully at the head. The
fcRt went on for half an hour without any diminish
ed sign of life; this is what they always do In
stead of DYING as they ought do they set and fight
away for hours some # the other ants do not come
and carry them away-whether to eat them or bury
them we know no.-Howltts australia.
> No PLEASING ANYBoDY.-Gratan, speaking of the
Prince Regent said " They have abused him in
every possible shape for first, they have abused his
person. of which he is very vain and secondly they
have abused his mistress, of whom ne is very fond
). and thirdly, not content with all that they have
praised his own wife. Poor gentleman, ne is sadly
, used"