Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1866-02-28

ADJUSTMENTS Minstrels play
at Lockport n. Y. tomorrow night Skif
& Gaylord's opened in Chicago on Monday
evening. Hunkidori was in Cleveland on the
18th Frank Pell is one Of the end-men of
Hooley's Minstrels, Brooklyn, n. Y. Dan
Rice is showing at Philadelphia The Car
ter Zouave Troupe are at Nashville, Tenn.
TIE Hanlon Brothers performed their new
and exciting feat last week at the Contnen-
tai Theatre. Boston The act Is entitled f
! ropaleticiSm. or walking in the air. perform
ed by Mr. Alfred Haulon, and is said to be
one OF the most daring and dangerous gym
nastic leaiS ever witnessed. A stout frame
work is suspended Just below the ceiling OF
the theatre, from side to side and from this
is suspended a trapeze upon which Mr.. Han
lon executes a variety OF graceful and utre-
pid teats, such as balancing upon a ladder
and again upon a chair, causing the SWING to
gyrate in the air in different ways while
standing upright on the bar without the sup
port of his hands. etc, before entering upon
his grand act From the frame before men
toned hangs twenty-four rings at equal d
tance from each other, and to these he finally
ascends from his trapeze. Then commenc-
ing at one side OF the theatre. he walks across
to the other side head downwards, like a fly
upon the ceiling, by placing his feet, one al-
ter the other in the rings, cln2ing by one
foot thereto until the next one is placed in
the succeeding ring. As serious damage
would probably result to both The audience
and the performer in case of a fall. large
net Is spread across the theatre, above the |
auditors heads.
SLIGHT OF UMBRELLA-MOns. Hermann |
gave his last audience in Dayton a specimen /
OF slight OF hand not in the bills The |
chief objection to it was that the striking fea-
ture was not visible to the public He was
about to show a lady's handkerchief could be |
rent INTO strips and be returned in perfect |
condition. A lady lent her handkerchief for |
the purpose. and Hermann's assistant delib |
erately tore it TO pieCeS-tO all appearances. |
Meantime Hermann had seized an umbrella |
for the purpose of showing that there was no !
handkerchief inside. Unfortunately the as
siStant had given him the wrong unbreIla-I
The audience greeted the tolLc pas with |
shouts Of laughter. The diSmayed as
siStant rushed of the stage pursued by the
hot prestiligitateur Directly the curtain |
went down and a series of blows were heard |
There seemed to be a fight behind the scenes
Some of the ladies' in the audience were fri
ghtened. bat the gentlemen thought it rather
good joke, though disappointed at losing
that part OF the exhibition. After consider
able delay the curtain rose again, and Her
mann, considerably ogitated, proceeded with
the show. It leaked out Yesterday that
when the show man rushed off the stage,
Herman damned his unlucIy assistant with
the umbrella until it was disabled for all fu-
ture slight of hand performances. The
formance, and Hermann declared he was
" Never so mooch mortify in bis life, adding,
II have been in New York I shall have
shoote myself, I so much mortify" The la
dy received her handkerchief after the per-
formance.-Daytop Journal Jan. 81.