The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-11-05

BROWN THE MIND-READER--WHA A PRESS
REPORTER KNOWS ABOUT MIND-READING.-(St.
Paul Press.] In Sunday mornings Press
appeared long article giving an account of
| the experiments of j. r. Brown, the So
called Mind. Reader" before several of the
learned faculty of Yale College. To say the
| least, it is somewhat remarkable to see pro-
| fessors Of Yale College unduly surprised By
| the performances OF Brown when the per-
! Torrance Of the very same somewhat mira
cuious feats lays within the power OF almost
any person. Mind-reading as performed
| by Mr.. Brown is but n simple parlor amuse.
ment, which can be shown any evening
when the proper conditions, which are SIM
pie, are complied with.
| Illustrative of this fact, little personal
| experience may be detailed.
More than three months ago Press re-
porter spending the evening with party OF
young ladies and gentlemen first saw the
same principle exhibited, and the very same
feat which MIR. Brown performed upon his
first experiment shown. A young lady Of
the party was blindfolded. One of the party
then took small table mat and carried it
| into another room, placing it upon stand.
| Returning, the lady bllndfolded took with
her left hand the right hand OF the person
i
and she placed her right hand for d few mo.
ments upon her companions forehead.
After standing in this position for a short
! time the right hand was removed from the
forehead, and raising the left hand Of her
companion, still! holding it in her own, to
| her forehead, she went directly through in
| tricate passage.wayS to the very article.
| After this experiment the same was re-
peated with other members of The party, the
article each time being different, and placed
| in place unknown to the person blind
! folded. The reporter was one of the num-
| Der who took the character Of the '' blind
goddess" for the performance of two eXpe-
| rimentS. After being blindioded and the
article hidden, he began the search for it,
| going directly to it at first, and unconscious
of his relative position in the house, and be-
lieying he was still going forward in q
straight line, he suddenly came to a pause
and experienced the Stralgest feeling he had
ever known in his life. 1t is hard to eX-
plain it, but it was more like endeayoring to
flv without knowing how 10 begin-a seem.
ing effort TO 60 up after something.
! This sensation is explained by the fact
that the article secreted had been placed
some distance above his reach. Instead OF
going directly forward, as he had supposed
he was told he had continued to walk by the
article without stopping, going from it for q
short time, but immediately returning. The
experience during the second experiment
was much the same. He is told that be
passed the article more than dozen times
then pausng before it. The Article was
placed below his head, and he only remem
GERS feeling sensation similar to some one
pressing gently on the back of the head
and realized that bis head was pressed upor
u book--the article OF which he was II
search--safely deposited in the lap of
young lady.
The only conditions necessary are that thu
person whom the then bliudfolded person
leads should keep the mind intcuty or The
object and where it is hidden. The = Mind
Reader" must as well keep his mind inten
on the TACT that he searches for something
, The experiment is a decidedly amusing one
which does admirable to while way an eve
ming. While the reporter has never seen tht
other experiments detailed in the article II
. Sundays issue tried, he mas no doubt tha
they can be performed by almost any one a
| well as Mr., Brown