Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-22
The Wonderful Conjuror in Paris

The Atlantic cable has probably turned the current of continental astoinshment in another direction, but when iris was last heard from the miracles of Professor WILJALBA FRIKELL
 were the top wave of wonder. He is thus described:-" Ordinary professors of legerde- main resort to a multiplicity of trick boxes. double lidded canssters, and other contrivances ot the same sort, but the professor despises those ads and spurns all such ancient appliances. ef- tectIng his tours datresse through his hands alone. From the first illusion to the last. the closest scrutiny of the spectator is invited only to De hoplessly baffied. The crimson curtains are withdrawn and reveal m other back ground than plain screen, before which l. placed two ordinary chairs. Then enters tn, Professor-a picaSant-lookIng perSonage attired V evening dress, and with the Tentonic cast of counte nance, and, after barring his wrists and vigor- ously skipping his coat tails, to show that he has nothing concealed, he shakes silk hand kerchief out and proceeds tharefrom to draw hundreds Of plumes of ostrich feathers, four globes of water with gold ard silver fish swimming actively about in them, and when all probability and possibility of production seems to be utterly exhausted, he has only to give his handkerchief another twist and for with there are hundreds of coiored feathers more strewing the platform with profu>ion that would serve to supply the whole OIbb3way tribe with marks. Of social distinction A we'd ding ring is borrowel from lady bent and broken with hammer by a gentleman at her Sid-; It Is then enclosed in piece of paper hrei off from pistol, and is presently louud perfectly restored and neatly put up in a scale. envelope, which is but itself lhe kernel of 4 dozen lager ooe>, all sealed in like mlnner.- Al the instant of it's return, the Professor breathes upon the restored ring. and imme- dIately it is sre-enclosed in dozen or more enve lopes similarly securel, and in which it i. identified by the owner. Itmust be understood that during this time the wiz ri never departs from before the sight of the audience: that he has no assistant and that between his wonder working finger and thumb everything seems to appear and disappear. 4 live canary is rolled mp m piece of paper, given to lady to hold and IS then found to be crushed even by her gentle pressure. To resuscitate it, the Profes sor cuts off its head, rubS up the body into the palm of his hand where 1t vanishes of conrse and then producing two lemons, gives the lady the choice as to which shall contain the bird. lie peels the one selected, and out pops the head of the little prisoner, that being further iloera'ed, Is suffered to escape, and becomes captured by one of the audience who retains | It.. Al up Tn hke manner, vanishes, and re-appears in 4 bottle of old port, which has had it's contents emptied just before Half dozen half crowns are borrowed, put into a tumbler, placed in a chair, and made, not only to respond au,iibly to every question asked, tell the cards chosen. and distinguish the result of each, but a die being handed round to the audience and one particu- lar number being thought Of, the communica- tive colns even divine that with unfailing pre- cision. The gun trick Is done, but in a heater and more mscrutable way than usual pistol IS the weapon empoyed loaded to the muzzle with six bullets, examined by the audience, dischargel by one of them, and the bullets are caught on silver saiver with the greatest dex- terity by the professor, who has co0lly pre- sented himself as the target Three small black flags are rubbed between the fingers into enough to supply the entire audince, each flag having a distinct motto An egg is taken crushed in the palm of his hand. and found 10 have mysteriously vanished; lemon on again being cut into, is discovered to be the place of its destination. But perhaps. amidst so much that was perplexing and nscrutab!e, the most startling feat of all. was the production of an amazing quantity of tin cups from hat bor- rowed tor the purpose One hundred and tweny half pint cups are excessively produced from lue inteilor Wltn lnconcelVaole rapldfty. Then shake of the empty hat fills it with hundreds of scent packets, distributed among the spec tators; another shake, and whole packs of cards rise up in profusion. and tumble out of the hn- ing, Chen the hat goes of with bang, and is trampled on by the wizard, to destroy the eff. feet Of the detonaiion; then it is torn up into fragments, and given, wrapped up in brown pa- I per- to gentleman in the stalls, who has them
 hardly minute in bis possession before another report IS heard, the retained parcel is found to contain baby, and the restored hat flies up the ceiling, whence it comes to the owner at the
 word of command, and is immdately pro
 nounced to be the one which was originally
 borrowed. All these feals are accomplish
 ed entirely by the Professors 1uickness of hand, if we except little possible aii from electric currents; and the art of prestodigita- tion, 1t must be confessed, has never been
 brought to greater perfeciion.'
 II A Character
 And there was one
 | IVY ho strove most valiantly to be a man.
 | Who smoked and still got sick drank hard and woke
 Each morn with hcaaache: his poof ti,norous voice