Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-02-25
UP IN THE AIR.

Some few months back was called in
Il attn surgeon by prnfcssion-to attend
a Senior Turnadns, who, despite his name,
was as true an Englshmaa. by birth and
parentage, rs the pnrish of Lambeth ever
bred and reared. | found him suffering
from extreme debility ard nervousness.
brought on by the overstrained tension Of
the muscles and siDews lie ttll me that
lie was rome dancer, slack and tight: a
tuml Ter, stiff and loose and many other
things which have escaped nv memory.
His family consisted Of his wife-a pale.
sIckly won an, st new hat older than him
seli-nI d a very handsome little girl Ac
custOmeG ~ | was 10 witness the devotion
Of women by n sick bedside, and the rri-
taiilty'of male patients, the self-sacrifice
OF Madame 1crnados, and the demnnstra-
tive gratitude Of her husband for each act
of attenti, II, surprised me-. He was under
my care for some months and as he re-
covered, grew takative and familiar. One
evening. as he sat in an easy chair, prop
ped no by pillows, he favored me with the
following narrative. | purposely suppress
any professional techncalities and aero
batic drgOt, which would be unintelligible
! to Il e oIdir airy reader.
/ "1ou sec, sir" he tegan, my father
was a hawker over in Lambert | never
! knew my mother, because she died when
| was quite young. d Mt know how it
was learned tunbing The first thing !
/ car remember was standing on nv head
{ by Westminster Bridge, aud a gentleman
/ going ly gave me a shilling Now, my
boy the gentleman said. do that again
which ! did Now said he, spring :,
which did, and came on my feet again
Good boy said he. pattiug me on the
/ bead. That gentleman, cir, Of course. after
sues eu"ouragem: from SUch a man, q
tumtler | became. spared neither pains
nor trouble. and Jracticed till | became
master VI my art aud head Of my Irofes-
sion.
About seven years agN-I was just TWEEN
ty-three-l first met with James Ranford
who was also in my line, AID be proposed
that we should work together, consent
ed. and we travelled about and exhibited
at town halls and assembly room. and large
rooms at inns: but we did very badly =
Rlnford had wife and chill, 81 it fel
harder on him. | was forced to lend hin
what little | could spare, for could no
see young wcman aud little baby &,
without while had it. could |?
We'll, sir. things got from bad to worse
and my partner, being man of violen
temper took to drink-he was always Civ
en- to that way-and. | am sorry to say
he used to beat his wife. Sometimes my
blood has boiled, and have walked away
for fear that should interfere. However
used to cheer up the missus as well as
could, and nurse the little girl. and they
both grew 10 like me very much.
0ne night, at a place called Peddlethorp
we had no audience at all We wert
without money, and were asking each 9th
err what we should do, when the squire,
son and lot of young gentlemen came If
and asked US to perform for them, which
we did ; and they gave us q couple of SOW
origins, and more than that, asked Us *
supper at the hotel. After supper the
squire looked at one of ouI bills Of the day
and said, ''HOllo! wig see you call your
selves Messrs. J. Raniord and W. Kerr
No wonder you get no audiences. sup
pose these are your real names% We an
swered that they were.
"Oh, that'll never do" he said. "Ycu
must have an alias; you mustn't let tht
public suppose that you are Englishmen
1t is contrary to the rules of professional
etiquette. You must make out that yor
are foreigners"
"Well, at that, all the gentlemen begar
to laugh; but it was settled before vi
broke up that night that, Cor the future
we were to call ourselves 1.-The two Foscar
tine spineless Siamese of SyriaW
Well, sir, from that moment Ranford anC
/ began to do well; but am sorry to say
that our good luck only caused my partner
TO drink the harder, and in consequence tC
behave more badly to bis wife. His chiIC
he certainly was very fond of, partly,
think, because he had only known her {
short time, for Ranford was one of those
men who ike new faces, AZ soon as be me
stranger be was all life and spirit, and h
would do anything or go anywhere to obiigt
him but when he had known 0 man fol
some time, he didn't care for him, but grew
cross and contradictory.
At last we got an engagement at gar
den near London. where there was grand
galanight every week, on which occasion 6
balloon assembled. ! scraped acquaintance
with the eronaut. and one evening wen
up with him. The sensation was singular
l cannot describe it, but l liked it very
much. The eronaut showed me how bt
managed to steer through the sir. when t.
throw out the sand, and how TO descend
As we were sailing over London he said t.
me:
"You couldn't do the slack rope up here
Foscari, could you ?"
"Why not Z" said and as spoke thu
idea flashed upoa me what a splendid tea
ture in the programme il you'd be;-PeF-