Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1875-07-29


cord, and giasping one end of the
cord in his hand, slung tie other up
! into the air with such force that its
extremity was beyond the reach of
our sight. He then Immediately
climbed up the cord with indescriba-
bic swiftness, and We could no lon
ger see him. / stood full of astonish-
ment, not conceiving what was to
come of this; when 10! leg came
tumbling down out of the air.
One of the conjuring company in
stantly snatc.ed it up, and threw it
into the basket ] noticed above. y
moment later hand came down, and
Immediately on that another leg; and
| in short all the members Of the body
came thus successfully tumbling from
the air, and were cast together into
the basket. The last fragment of
all that We sw tumble down was the
head, and no sooner had that touch-
ed the ground than he who had
snatched up all the limbs and put
them into the basket turned them out
again topsyturvy. Then straight,way
we saw with these eyes all these limbs
creep together again, and in short
a whole man, who Ut once could stand
Just as before without showing the
least damage. Never in my life was
so a,tonished As when | beheld this
wonderful performance, and ! doubts
ed now no longer that these misguid-
ed men did it by the all Of the devil.
In the plate illustrating this extra
ordinary pass, the juggler is shown,
firstly, throwing up the ball Of rope;
secondly, climbing up a rope, the su-
perior end of which disappears in the
clouds and thirdly, in the act Of
coming down by instailments, which a
confederate is picking up and putting
into basket There can, therefore,.
be no possible doubt as TO the exact
meaning OF the Anglo Dutch voya-
ger,
1t is curious TO find a similar story
in the memoirs of tn. Emperor Je.
hangire." Seven jugglers from Ben
gal exhibited before his majesty. "Af-
Ter performing the feat of cutting a
man to pieces, scattering the limbs all
over the floor. covering them with a
sheet, and then bringing him out safe
and sound, they produced chain tf-
ty cubits in length, and in my pres
ence thres one end of it toward the
sky, where il remained Us if fastened
to something in the air 4 dog was
then brought forward, and being pla-
ced at the lower end OF the chain,
Immediately ran up. and reaching
the other end Immediately disappear
ed in the air. In the same manner II
hog, panther, lion and a tiger were
successfully sent up the chsin, and
all equally disappeared at the upper
end OF it. At last they took down
the chain and pulling it into bag,
no one ever diScovere in what WAY
the different animals We're made to
vanish in the mysterious manner
above described
The varieties of the vanishing trick
impress the reader with the truthful
ness Of the several narratives. -
Although one de>cribc- leather
thong, another 4 rope, and the third
a chain, all agree that the line was
hooked on to the sky, Modern visi
tors to jugglingsesnce' arc we'll aware
from the experience Of Peppers ghost,
that almost any illusion can be pro-
produce on stag or in an lnclO'ed
pace by skillfuliy arranging mirrors;
but all the accounts cited agree in
this Chinese feat being performed in
the open air. Edward Melton draws
Il large open square in the market
place surrounded by shops and filled
with crowd Of people, who are stan
ding all around tie jugglels-s n liber-
ty by no means permitted by moiern
professors.