The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-07-15
woadorruI Feat. BY Juggler..


Iba Batuta, the Moor, says he saw at
Hangehau, in China, the account given BY
Edward Melton, an English gentleman, who
wrote his "Zee-en-Land Reizeu," in low
Dutch, Of the performances of Chinese
troupe of jugglers, which he witnessed at
Batavia in December, 1876. What gives
this account an extraordinary circumstan-
tiallty, is that Melton's book, profusely
adorned with plates, has a remarkable one,
in which the Cinnamon aforesaid are de-
picted performing the 'perche," we'll
known in London streets; the famous bas-
ket-murder trick, known for ages in India,
and recently performed in Europe, and the
wonderful trick that Melton, after giving a
vivid account of the basket-murder trick,
proceeds to describe thus:
but now am going to relate thing
which surpasses all belief, and which /
should scarcely venture to assert here, had
1t not been witnessed by thousands before
my own eyes. One of the same gang took
q ball Of cord, and grasping one end of the
cord, slung the other up into the air
with such force that its extremity was be-
yond reach of our sight. He then imme-
diately climbed up the cord with indescrib-
able swiftness and we could no longer see
him. ] stood full of astonishment, NOT con-
ceiving what was to come of this; when 10
a leg came tumbling down out of the air.
Zone of the conjuring company instantly
snatched it up and threw it into tine basket
j noticed above. A moment later hand
came down, and Immediately on that an
other leg. And in short all the members
OF the body came thus successfully tumbling
IRON the air, aud were cast together into
the basket. Tho last fragment of all that
we saw tumbling down was the head, and
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than he who had snatched up all the limbs
and put them in the basket turned them all
out again t0psytHrrg. Then straight away
we saw with these eyes all these limbs creep
together again, and in short form whole
man. who at once could stand and Just as
before, without showing the least damage
Never in my life was so astonished as
: when Lbeheld this wonderful performance,
and doubted now no longer that these mis-
guided men did IL by the help Of the devil. Is
In the plate illustrating this extraordi-
nary pass, the juggler is shown, firstly,
throwing up the ball Of rope; secondly,
climbing up rope, the superior end of
which disappears in the clouds; and, third
~ IN the act Of coming down by INSTALL
ments, which his confederate is picking up
aud putting into a basket. There can,
therefore, be no possible doubt rs 70 the
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II Is curious to find similar story In the
r1temoirs OF tho Emperor Jehangire. -
Seven jugglers from Bengal exhibited be-
fore his Majesty. ALTER performing the
feat of cutting man to pieces, scattering
the limbs over the door, covering them
with sheet, and then bringing him out
safe aud sound, they produced 4 chain City
cuhlts in length, and in my presence threw
Que end Of il toward tho sky, where il no
manned rs II fastened 10 something in the
air. A dog was then brought forward, and
being placed at the lower end Of the chain,
Immediately ran up, and reaching the other
end, Immediately disappeared in the air.
In the same manner hog, 4 panther, .
lion and = tiger were successfully sent up
the chain, and all equally DISAPPEARED At the
upper end Of IL At last they took down
the chain and pat il into bag. no enc ever
discovering in what way the different AM.
mails were made to vanish m the mysterious
manner above described