The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-06-22
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Myst .r.Ous 0Ua 40.
Perhaps the most familiar OF mys
teriOus sounds are those produced
by the ventriloquist familiar be-
cause almost every county fur Is
visited by one or other of these ex-
hibitors mysterious because the
real source OF sound docs not cor
respond with the apparent 1t lies
within the province of the auatomist
or physiolosist to explain why it is
that some can speak from the stom
ach instead of from the throat, AMI
without any percoptihle movments
of tho lips but the person who can
d. this, the ventriloqnist, may make
himself most bewillering deceivcr
of those who listen to him. Oar
power Of determining tho exact di-
rcctiun whence sound comes is
less than we usually imagine. 1t is
said that Saville Carey; whs could
well initiate the whistling of the
wind, would sometimes amuse him
self by eyertiug this art in II public
coffee house somo of the guests Mt
once ruso TO sec wether tho win.
dows we're quite closed, while Others
would button up their coats, as ii
cold.
Sir David brewster notices ven
triloquist of exceptional skill, VI. st
Gille, who one day entered n church
where some monks were lamcnting
the death of brother. Suddenly
they heard voice, as il from over
their heads, bewailing the condition
OF the departed in purgatory, AMI
reproaching them for their want of
zeal, uot suspecting the trick, they
fell on their face aud chanted the
De H'timiis A committee appoin
ted by the academic des sciences to
report on the phenomena of von-
triloa1ismwent with VI. st. Clio TO
the house OF II lady, to whom they
announced that they had come to
investigate a case of aerial spirits
someN here in tho neighborhood
During the interview she heard what
she termed spirit voices above her
head. underneath the door, aud in
distant parts of the room and was
with diiiicnlty convinced that the
only spirit resent was tho ventall-
opnistc voice of IT. st. Gille. Brew
ster tells of another master of this
art. Lonis Branbant, valet do cham-
bre to Francis l.. whose suit was re
iocted by the parents of n beautiful
and wcll.dowered girl with whom
he was in love. He called on the
mother after the death Of the father
again TO urge his suit and while he
was present she heard the voice Of
her deceased husband expressing re-
morse for having rejected Louis
Brabant, aud comparing her to give
her immediate consent to the be"
trothal frightened aud alarmed,
she consented Brabint, deemlng
| il desirable to behave liberally in
the marriage arrangements bat hav-
ing not much cash ut commlnd, TO.
/ solved to try whether his ventrilo>
ouism would be as etlicacious with Il
money len nling banker as it hal
been with the widow. Calling on the
old usurer ut Lyons, ho managed
| that the conversation should tarn
upon the subject of demons, spectros
and purgatory. Suddenly was heard
the voice Of the usurers father, con-
planning of the horrible suffering he
was enduring III purgatory, and
saying there was no way OF obtaining
alienation except by tho usurer ad'
vIncing money to the visitor for the
sake OF ransoning Christians from
the hands of tho Turks. The usurer
was terrified, but too mnch in love
with gold to yield at once.-Brabant
went next day and resumed the con-
versation, when shortly wero heard
the voices of host Of dead relations
all telling the same terrible story,
and all pointing out the only way OF
obtaining relief. The usurer could
resist no longer he placed 10000
crowns in the hands of the unsus-
pected ventriloquist, who, of course,
forgot to pay it over for the ransom
of Christians either in Turkey or
anywhere else.--When the usurer
learned afterward how he had been
duped, he diel of vexation. Cham-
gers JON NAL.