Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-06


chased cotton plantation of some two
thousand two hundred acres, near Lake
Providence, Louisiana. We understand
that be intends cultivating one thousand
acres of cotton this season. "a Is
Chaplain Lozier, for some days past,
has been iaboring in Richmond, Ind, 10
raise funds for the Soldisrs Home. One
night the great magician Hermann held
forth in the public ball, aud Lozier went
toses how A' he did it," no doubt with an
intention Of picking up items whereby
he might "know how TO do IT," The
Chaplain communicates the result Of bis
Investigations in letter to the Cincin-
natl Commercial from which we take
ths following liberal extract: ~
Last Sunday night Hermann had the
hall and the crowd, and, having nothing
to do, went to see him. Hermann 10
the great Prestotateroigger, you know.
He astonished everybody with his leafs.
Some were agog, some semi-agog, and
here and there saw one that was DEM
agogue. saw through nearly everything
he did His (irst feat gas TO let people
select three cards, ana then he threw the
cards against q glass in q frame, and
the three cards appeared in the frame,
under the glass He brought the frame
forward, and took the glass out of it,
and held il ap to rs. saw through il
in moment Then he brought out a
goblet, and put an egg into it, and spread
handkerchief over the top, and, while
a man held the handkerchief, he. took
the egg out of the goblet and substitute
ed another handkerchief in place of the
egg. The man held the goblet up be.
fore the audience, and Immediately
saw through that. Then he took lady's
ring, and man broke it with ham.
mer; be then folded the pieces in O pa.
per, and sealed them up with wax. A
man took the paper and unfolded it. and
continued 10 unfold five other papers
inside of each other, and in the inner
one found tie ring. He held up the ring,
and saw through that, too. Then
Eaau took bird cage, and stood out in
the audience, and he made five canaries
pass from another cage into the one in
the mans hand. 1t was o common wire
cage, everybody saw through il.
Then he borrowed lady's handker.
ehief, and a man poured stuff on it, and |
set it afre and burned it to ashes, and
when the paper was opened there was
the handkerchief It puzzled me a
little at first; bat, just as the smoke of |
the burning handkerchief rolled up, | |
saw through it all fVsN
Then he put some cards in glass; |
and, when men called for them to come |
out, the one they named would crawl
right up out of the pack He used Just
q common tumbler; saw through it,
Then he took crinoline and things out
of . bat. saw into it at . glance
Lastly, be took, two rabbits, one white
and the other black, and rubbed them
both into one spotted one. which was
such disgusting piece of miscegena-
ton" that | suspicioned ct once that
he had con federate somewhere
about; so l left without seeing through
that. A
omitted to say that he took hat,
and caught q lot of money that was lay
ing about loose in the air, and in peo-
pies hair. didn't call that much Of
trick though, for have caught several
hats full OF money in that same hall my
sell, and can do it again whenever the
soldiers or the country need it. /
wouldn't be bit surprised If / became
80 akilled at catching money, that some
lady will want to call me HERMAN some
of these dayals vsrna
On Tuesday night had good audi
ence in Starr Hall, and after laying the
facts and figures before them, they pro-
cseded to take contributions and organ
ize committees, to put my enterprise
through in regular Wayne County style.
When see the result. shall let you
know it,
In reading over the manuscript il oc-
Cured to me, speaking of the "under.
ground railroad" that ina: was probably |
the worst "played OUT railroad in the
world.
Speaking of railroads, naturally sug.
gests . train--of thought, which may as
well be allowed to switch of here az any
where else II isaIl about people and
things that have reached the superlative
degree 10 their line. To my opinion they
rank about 90 follows:
Worst played-out man in the nation
James Buchanan.
Worst played.out woman-Lucy Stone.
Worst played-out word in the vernac-
ular-" chivalry."
Worst played-ous phrase - estate
Worst pIayed-out title" master"
sWorst played-out song" Tramp,
Tramp, Tramp"
Worst played.out plaee-Stevenson.