, 1874-10-11
WONDERS or kaAGlc.
Tricks Of Jugglers Contrasted VIII
Spirit Manifestations
Ancient and Modern Itlaumaturgy---Re-
storiuq the Dead to Lite.


...Houlin's Marvellous Deccptlons.
| Fraal tie -,e,p Fork Hard.
So eminent scieutist US Prof. Alfred Il. Wal
lace hss written several elaborate articles in II
EnslsA periodical in support Of tie claim thu
tho phyeical p,ono1nepo,. called soiritualstic i
produced by spirits Which once Inhabited Eu1na1
bolies. 5!any 1narvelouB things are reported al
most daily OF this spirit manifestation. tev
7cara ago nothing moro startling than raps ART
tuble-:ipping was produced. but now we arE
as';al 10 bclioye not only that mediums lil:s
Home elongate their bodies from 6 to II feet
carry rel-hot Goals in their hands without injury
aud boat visby in the sir, but that tho ''spir.s
can ''n.atetialixe themselves so ~ to become
the solid flesh aud bone that thsy we're in thi.
life. Nay, more: Col. Olcott, II cleas-headet
practical lawyer ard gentleman OF uniplpeac',
ale rerGcity, who is al CLittenden, VI, inyasti-
! eating the alleged rnon;'nona producsd BY tlt
Eddy mediums, tole@raphs to New icr6 it
triumph that lie has succeeded in catching ona ol
the upisi;a-e female one and weighing her or
Fairbanks scalee.
PROFESSIONAL IAGIo1ASs
Now, all this from Aleaars. Wallace, Croo's,
and Varley, from Col. Olcott, from Philadelphia,
from Ao:asia, n. T., and otter places haunted
| by matsralizel spirits, snd from persons whc
! have SAT witt. sisde. Foster, and Mansfield, il
very wonderful, hut Ia 1t conclusive proof that
| the c'nlms Of sptntnalisn are right. What il it
| caa DO shown tint phenomena quito as sxtraor-
! Glnary have beeu produced by professional Jug
| glers. 1ne1, who have uade no pretenss tna.
they wa1a assisted Ly oeo..it powers, and who
| hayo even explained the mechanism Of their
tricks II this can be done, tnc Inference must
| necessarily follow either that the Splritualistc
mediums are GINNING :Epostors, CT that the pro-
! fessional uccromancera are liars when they ie-
clare that their phenomena are moro trickery.
| aud that they are really assiatcd By Buper1nurl-
| dane agents. AL history is full Of tho
| doceptious Practical eithcr by these pro-
| tesEioa2l characters OF oslers WHO pretended to
supernatural poWsr5. aud were subsequently OK
| POSED as cAarln!ants JuEgiory w3H allied to
| tue anceut rotiginns OF the Grcese, Romans,
| Egyp:lans. aud Cba!dccaEs. Helas had it.
| orscle, with iss cuuotug priesthood; no:na its
aug's and t!iyinefn, aud Chalilee It's ,rorid-re-
kuawned uaeclans. In the dark ages OF Eu-
! rope tlcra wero encllanters, sorrerers, and as
trolcgcTs. a.,t little later. witches, who had to
j,aya their coulE-y burned aud drowned oct OF
tll.1a. Tps 1A4unaturyis:s aul hosic1loans
pretended to .2asicx! powef5. Ihase il MT All
age III the worlds recorded past. hardly year
even, that sou:e pissitiig!a'eGs' has not tgnr5l
OIL the ecane, either az Co:1:1 appendage.ta rcl-
/! t,ioua leader. or All actor performing tor tbs
amusement Of TUG poptlace. Let tbs Dayen-
port Brothers or ur. S.sdu do mora than is re-
| lated here, aud then they wall hava 3 right to
ssk Us to consider If the pkenomena they show
are the work Of "spsit=.'
In the Lives of the NeeFou,auoora." by
William Gaax,n {Lo1dsn. l5l4). taesa is al
account of cvujuror ct the Court Of
Wcpccslaus. King OF Uohe.ni1 and afterwards
r.
! person. Ziito oy name. exhibited his extra
c1lina.v skill to the Court. He showed Lilns2 If
first il his proper shape, and the. in thoEe OF
al5:eEent persons sncsesslvelE. With conn-
sepances aud stature totally different from his
oxn- At one time Ae Was apleEdidly ast.rod in
robes Of purple and silk. and then, in the
t,viuklDg Of au eye. in coarse Linen aud Glow nish
coat OF fr.cze.
A sy4a!cAL TREE.
Ii the same volcme sketci. is given Of DR..
! Lamb noted nceromxncsc iii the time Of
Charles the First. Tie celebrated l:;charti Bax-
ter l. aqtloaity for the statement 1!.xr Lamb
meeting two Lis acgu2in1auces in the ssreet, aud
they having expressed a desire TO witness some
examples Of his skill, invited them home with
kim. He then conducted them into an inner
!poa, when, presently, to thei1 no Small sur
prise, they HaE tree spring up in the middle OF
tue apartment. They had scarrely ceasod Won
dcriug at this phenomenon When, III Elulnent.
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