Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-01-09
Indian Jugglers Surpassed.
The London Era saws:

| Of all tribes Of Thaumaturgists
that have at various times wrought
their wonders upon a metropolitan
stage, tile palm Of superiority must
be awarded to the Professor Wiial-
ha Frinell, who on Thursday eve
ming astonished and delighted a full
and fashionable assent blage at the
Hanover Square Rooms. Ordinary
professors of legerdemain resort to
| d multiplicity OF trick boxes, double
lidded canisters, and other contri-
! vances Of the same sort, but the
Professor despises those aids, and
spurns all such ancient appliances,
effecting his tours d'addressa
through his hands alone. From the
| first illusion to the last The closest
scrutiny of the spectator is invited,
only to be hopelessly bafied. The
crimson curtains are withdrawn ,and
reveal no. other background than a
plain screen, before which IS placed
two ordinary chairs. Then enters
the Professor, Il pleasant-looking
personage,; attired in evening dress,
and with the Tueto1lic cast Of coun-
tenance that is characteristic Of our
cousins German and after barring
his wrists and vigorously slapping
his coat-tails, to show that he has
nothing concealed; he shakes a silk
handkerchief proceeds there
from to draw hundreds OF plunes
of ostrich feathers, four globes of
water with the gold and silver fish
swimming actively about in them,,
and when all probability and posi-
bility Of production seems to be ut.
terly exhausted, he has only to give.
bis handkerchief another twist, and:
forthwith there are hundreds of col.
ored feathers more, strewing the:
platform with a protusion that would
serve to supply the whole Ojibbe-.
way tribe with marks Of social dis
tinctlon $* 4
A wedding ring is borrowed from
a lady, bent and broken with a.
hammer by gentleman at her side,
it is then enclosed in apiece Of pa
per, fired off from pistol and IS
presently found perfectly restored
and neatly put up i'll a sealed envel-
ope, which is but itself the kernel
OF dozen larger ones, all sealed
in like manner. At the instant OF
its return the Professor breathes
upon the restored ring, and imme-.
diately it is reinclosed in dozen Or
more envelops similarly secured,
and in which it is identified by the
owner. 1t must be understood that
during this time the wizard never
departs from before the sight Of the
audience ;. that he has no assistant,
and that between his wonder, work
ing finger and thumb, everything;
seems to appear and disappear. A
live canary is rolled Up in a piece
Of paper, given to a lady to hold,
and is then found to BE crushed
even by her gentle pressure, To:
resusciate it, the Professor cuts of, f,
its head, rubs UP the body into the
palm OF his hand, j. where it vanish
es, Of course, and then producing
two lemons, gives the lady the
choice as to which shall contain the
bird. He peels the one selected,
and ont pops the head Of the little
prisoner, that being further liberia
tod, is suffered to escape, and be-
comes captured byione Of the audi
ence who retains it as souvenir Of
his visit :. " Il. .g......,...,:g3 tsss.s.
A pigeon is rolled up in like
manner, vanishes, and re-appears
IN a bottle Of old port, which has
had its contents emptied just before.
Half a dozen half crowns are .bor-
rowed, put into a tu1nbler, placed
in a chair, and made, not only to
respond audibly to eve-y question
asked, tell the cards chosen and dis
tinguish the suit Of each, but a die
being handed round to the audience;
and one particular number being
thought Of the communicative coins
even divine that with unfailing pre-
cisionn..: The Gun Trick is done, but
IN a neater' and more inscrutable
way than usual. A pistol is the
employed, loaded to- the
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