Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1873-07-10
Who were the JuEglers2

In Mr.. George Lunt's new book,
"Old Now England Traits" he gives
an account of feat of jugglery, which
was related to him years ago BY a per
son of undoubted veracity. It is as
follows
my father" said this worthy per-
son, "has often told me of being in
Market Square when q man, a woman
and little dog appeared, and soon
collected quito crowd by the exhibi-
ton Of feats Of jugglery. At length,
after due collections of tribute from the
bystanders, the man produced a ball Of
cord from his pocket, threw it into the
air, and began to ascend it hand over
hand. The woman followed, and after
her the little dog. While the crowd
gaping in expectation of the return of
this mysterious trio. some one drove
into the market-place and inquired the
occasion of this unusual congregation.
Being informed, he said that he had
just met such party on the road a
mile from the town. 1 had read the
most extraordinary accounts, by Brit
ish officers and others, of exhibitions
like this, which they alleged they had
often Witnessed in India. remember
ell one III particular, where tigers, and
other like guests, and even the some
what unwieldy bulk of an elephant,
had seemingly been brought down be-
fore their eyes upon a cable fastened
by some mysterious agency far aloft {;
for supposed it behooved to be made
fast in some uncomfortable region of The,
upper dir. But that similar demon
stration conld have been made in a
sober New England town, at MONDAY,
could scarcely fail to put me from
my faith. 1t lmpresses me, however,
as at least an extraordinary relation,
coming from such a source and hap
pening to meet another ancient and
equally reputable friend on the same
day, one, too, who had been much
about the world in the capacity of q
navigator to foreign climes, 1 took
occasion to relate to him the strange
narrative which 1 had just heard. Oh,
said he, there is no doubt of it ); my
mother has often told me she was pres
ent and saw tho whole transaction,
In the mouth of two or three Witness
es,' says the Scripture, shall every
word be established.
We should like to know more about
this singlar performance. The adroit
deluders of other peoples vision did
not confine the exhibition of their
power of the air to New England. As
many as thirty years ago, a gentle
man whose veracity was unques-
tionable, was witness to the
same delusion. He told his son of it,
from whom the writer has information.
Mr.. C. was ono day walking on the
tow-path of the Erie Canal, near
Oneida Castle, in Oneida county, when
he met q queer old man and woman
riding very fast. They were 50
wierd and foreign that they attracted
his attention. We forget whether
they were accompanied by dog.
Upon turning q bend in the
canal Mr.. G. came upon q crowd of
people, his neighbors, standing upon
tho path, and looking intently into the
sky. He asked them what they were
looking at, and they told him that al,
old man and woman hal Just been per-
forming some tricks, and that suddenly
the man threw ball of Irvine into the
air, which unwound "a it went up, that
the old woman climbed up it, and the
man followed her, and both disappear
ed in the sky. The people they
described were the queer pair Mr.. G
had Just met running round the bend.
How they han managed TO deceive the
crowd he could not explain. Can
anybody tell who these remarkable
iugglers wcre2