Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-25
T.. WHIFmORE.
Publisher and Proprietor
A PERPLExING MAGICIAN.

Wonderful Feat of Newly Arrived
French Prestidigitateur.
New York World.l
M. Marius Cazeneuve is a small
gentleman with a large head and
fingers, whose dexterity would
shame the most energetic shuttle
in any wooden mill the country
boasts Of. He is the owner of in
Vulnerable gold badges and testi-
monials Of his art, five of which he
exposed on his nimble person last
evening. He appears even to dead
heads in fall evening costume> and
combines in his department The
grace of a Frenchman with the
yolubility of a Yankee. A small
table having been arranged directly
under the noses Of the Investigating
audience, NJ. Cazeneuye appeared
smiling behind it with nothing in
his looks to warrant belief Of his
league with the devil, though, a
hundred years ago, he would GER
tainly have been burned before the
evening was over for just some
such doubtful relationship.
Picking ups pack of neat, French
playing cards, he first began his
deviltry by holding them under the
nose Of a reporter, and while yet
their fresh, clean smell was in the
nostrils of that gentleman, causing
them to disappear, subsequently
extracting them from the inside OF
his coat. This was only child's
play, however. One or two re-
porters, being found willing to
touch the cards after some persua-
sion. a few were drawn from the
pack, looked at and replaced. A
salver containing dice-box and dice
was next passed around, and as
these gentlemen threw the dice ii
became horrible reality that the
total numbers of their throws re-
corded exactly the numerical posi-
ton from the top Of the cards they
had drawn and replaced. A GEN
tleman who was said to represent
the Daily Witness handled the
dice-box in an agile manner, but,
shake it as he would, he could not
avoid the supernatural result.
The next demonstration was even
more perplexing. A blank card
was handed the spectators upon
which they were requested, one af'
ter the other, to place four numer'
ais; the total amount thus set down
amounted to 1881, upon which
the reporter of the World opened
not without trepidation, sealed
envelope that had previously beer
intrusted to his care, and 10 ! the
self-same product, 1851, appeared
written in plain characters within
| At this point there might have beer
| wholesale conversion to Spiritual
ism or almost any doctrine pro
posed, had not the magician can
didly informed his audience, in ex'
cellent French, that he claimed MOI
to do the mysterious or unnatural
The sleight-of-hand tricks Of M
CazeneuYe are not, however hl
only stock in trade. He has a toll
erably good memory which serve
him IN some stead; to illustrate
He handed a gentleman in the an
dience three books, the "Chrenolo
gle Universelle." "Cours Astrono
mie," and "Tablette Ghropologique
| de L'Histoire Universelle," volume
each of several hundred pages; t,
several other gentlemen he next in
trusted a dozen or SO playipg-cards
to others he gave domin0es anc
lotto counters. Having distribute,
these good gifts, he begged the gen
tlemen with the books to open
page each at random, upon whicl
he gazed ponsively for the space o
a moment, and then visiting tn
other holders was allowed mo
mentary glance at the faces Of thoi
cards, their dominoes, and lott
counters. Shaking his head the
several times, as if to shake inf
the several cells of. memory th
various inventories Of his outstand
ing stock, he began recital Of tn
list, first repeating the entire page
that had been opened to in tn
books, and next, telling accuratel