The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-11-12
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and scrutinized the cards carefully. The
ewes of the company were now fixed OF
the pair, and no one spoke. Skeptic
having satisfied himself that the card.
had undergone mo preparation, hand
ed them to the conjurer. Take q
card, said the latter. 1t was done.
Now take the pack in your hands, put
the card back, and shuttle. Skeptie
did as he was told, and smiled as he
shuffied the cards in variety of ways.
1T would be difficult would it not asked
Herr Hermann. Ito tell you the card you
drew?'' ''Rather!' CALCULATED Skeptic.
What if were to do more. and make
you draw again the same card? 2" Il
should like to lay ten pounds to half
crown on that Keep your money,
my friend, | don't want to rob you give
me the cards. He took the cards from
Skeptic, and. shutting them, said This
| time when you draw the card do not let
| anybody See it, nor say what it is until
ask you. l must do my trick after my
own fashion. Draw -
He drew. ''Now place the card on
the table back upwards, and cover it with
your hand, holding it tightly" Skeptic
did as he was desired. Now, sir, is not
that card the one which you drew first p
Certainly not - exclaimed Skeptic
loudly and triumphantly. Indeed"
cried Hermann, there must be some
mistake y "Of course there is, rejoin-
ed the guest, ''but it was your mistake !"
and he laughed with much glee. Are
you sure?'' positive Name the
cards" Il drew the Queen of Spades,
first, and this under my hand is the Nine
Of Diamonds" Let ME look at it.
Skeptic took away his hand, turned the
card, and beheld-the Queen of Spades.
An explosion of laughter, at Skeptic's
expense, was followed by yclley of
cheers for this wonderfully clever feat OF
sleight of-hand, if indeed it was so, for |
was utterly at loss at the time-and am
now, when | think of ito account for
the manner in which it was accomplished.
Many other tricks were exhibited in
the course of the evening, but those re
lated above were decidedly the newest
and best, although some of the Others
would have made a common onjuror's
fortune. Several times Herr Hermann
held out pack of cards, and named be-
forehand the card any one Of US would
draw, in spite of every effort on our part
to foil him, and this without failing in
any one instance OF course passing
Il card is one of the commonest tricks
in card jugglery but to pass card"
and to name it beforehand, and pass
it on the company so cunning of fence
and so wary as ours, was a different mat
ter
Better than ''rassing the card with
such magical dexterity-which We know
is achieved by rapidity and neatness Of
lingering the trick with the pear,
which, indeed, was as inconceivable as
any thing shown that evening. One of
the party was asked by the conjurer to
to take pear from the table and mark it
then to cut a slice from it, to eat the slice
and hand the pear to Herr Hermann.
This was done, aud the pear handed to
the conjuter, who, on taking 1t in his.
hand, threw it up towards the ceiling,
caught it as it fell, and returned it sound
and whole to the gentleman. who declar-
ed it was the same pear he had marked
and from which he had cut the slice.
A FRGGHFUL AFFAIR." man FIuNs
into the .SUM Fat Of Distillery, and as
50 bnlUy Boiled that he dies -Dierich
Nipper, milk pedlar Of this city, died
this morning at an early hour from the
effects Of an injury he received at
O'Neil's distiliery ON Tuesday evening.
1t is the practice of the milk men to go
to the vat for swill which comes boiling
hot from the di>tillery. On Tue sday
evening, Nipper went there as was his
custom, and while dipping out III DO.
ing mass his foot slipped ond he fell into
the vat, the mass covering his body to
the neck There was nobody about the
distiilery at the time, but Nipper ago
nzing cries brought help from the out
side and he was taken out and to his home
in the 9Th ward, about half a mile from
thu distiilery.
The unfortunate man was burned OF
boiled in the most fearful manner. The
flesh fairly dropped from his body in
large masses, and his suferings were
intense. This morning death relieved
him.
Nipper was 46 years of age, German
who has lived in this country for many
years, aud leaves wife and TWO children.
He was man highly respected by all
who knew him. --IHiltoauhfee Wisconsin.