The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-14

the archbishop and church council.
prior to performance, and called up
on to answer various charges of ire.
ligion, and as being an 'sidle, mis-
chievous person" The council were
not able to find him guilty, but he
treated them to a gratuitous perform
ance. He astonished the assemblage
by announcing that watch, which he
exhibited, would be transported to a
cushion in the cathedral pulpit; and
there it was found when a messenger
went to search for it.
His first feat as a ventrilOquist was
in dissecting-room, whittier he had
been invited by medical friend. The
doctor, scalpel in hand, had made an
incision in the body of woman, to
which she protested. ''It is cruel to
mutilate,' said the voice, "the re-
mains Of 4 woman.
"Yes,' came from another body
upon another table lit is an outrage
to thus abuse a woman" Doctor and
students made rush for the door and
it was only when the surgeon had fran
tically driven home in his carriage
taking Signor Blitz with him, that the
ventriloquist explained.
1t is impossible to give more than a
few of the many anecdotes which Sig.
nor Blitz himself has left of his long
life and varied experience. Meeting
Paganini, the violinist, during a visit
to Glasgow, an infants cry came from
within the great Italians fiddle.
my God" said Raganini, "what is
this %
"You know whose child it isl said
a female voice from a neighboring
closet. The excited musician rushed
to the closed, thence back to his violin,
and then turned round to see Signor
Blitz laughing and to receive his ex-
PLANTATION.
An Egyptian mummy was presented
by the American consul at Cairo to a
Philadelphia museum. A crowd was
one day about the case, and was star
tied by voice from the multitudinous
linen folds.
"Open the box open the box y said
the voice.
tsWho are you?'" asked one visitor,
more venturesome than the rest.
'I'm descendant of the Pharoahs,'
answered the voice.
"What do you want -
"Ask yourself. Your COMPOUNDED
Yankee curiosity has walked me up
from the sleep of ages. Open the
box!"
"What' your name =
sSignor Blitz," answered the voice,
and the great ventriloquist made him.
self known.
The Signor while in Nova Scotia was
by an old orange woman
with basket of delicious fruit. He
bought an orange for sixpence, and
cutting it in half drew from the cen
tire golden sovereign. This perform.
ance was repeated with another orange,
the old woman looking on with amaze
ment. He was about to take third
from her basket, when she snatched it
away and vowed he should have no
more sovereigns for sixpence.
Introduced to very solemn clergy.
man in Hartford, Conn.,, that gentle
man abruptly denounced the signor
for performances which were ''dan-
gerous to the welfare of mankind,'
and much more of the same sort. In
terrupting him the signor plucked a
pack of playing cards from the pocket
of his ministerial coat and withdrew
dice-box and dice from his clerical hat.
Signor Blitz was troubled with no
more orthodox objections from that
gentleman.
In the old Sixth street market, Phil
adelphia, he bought a dozen eggs for
twenty-four cents from stolid Dutch
man. "Clear as water nit well.
bucket, ell q remarked the vendor, as
he handed them over.
The signor broke one, and there
came peering through the aperture
first feathered head and then a whole
canary bird, which sang sweetly to
the man of eggs.
The Signor's fun-making propensity
seems to have been irresistible, and
found expression in all manner of
ways and places. He made a
negro cry out from within his trunk
on one occasion, and came near being
as an abolitionits. He
made his horse talk, and the brighten.
ed hostler could not be induced to re-
enter the stable. So the signor was
compelled to groom the ami
NAL. His favorite resort seems to
have been in the market-places, where
he gave voice to chickens and pigs and
fish and even oysters, to the great con-
fusion of the market.people. But
when he had had his laugh the kind.
hearted professor never failed to make
good any loss, direct or indirect, that
his victims might have suffered. His
benevolence was comprehensive, and
it was said of him that he gave way
half of what he made in charity. In