The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-06-15
gfIRTELors JJGGLEHY.

art" The editor OF the COntBtGTcfGt
BuiIetin, travelling in the East, has
contributed to that paper some very
interesting letters ON the customs Of
the strange people he has visited I'm
der the above heading he tells his
readers il Ii last issue, that'c, NJ; les
ccnce is q capital time for mild amuse-
ments which will not tire the languid
brain. and we hai some jug&le.s mp
almost every day. We never could
find out their tricks, which are very
marvellous. Or course every body has
heard of the basket trick, where q
small boy gets inside a basket, and 4
;uggler plunges a sword through and
through it, bringing it out reeking
with blocd and then holds up the
basket shows there's nothing there,
and calls the boy, who calmly appears
from outside the circle Ct spectators.
And also the mango trick, where Il
seed is placed in the ground, is cover
cd with a cloth, and appears as a
shrub. growing visibly before ones
ewes. and then bears fruit which ri
pens and is edible in five minutes from
the first planting These fellows have
very scantv clolJiHg and apparently
no apparatus whatever. There are
some wiscacycs who profess to know
all about these tricks. ! never saw
The disc lb)weiinc and immediate
healing of takers. in India, nor men
sitting in the air, leviated, us Madame
Blavas-ky calls it. But have seen
some other tricks IS surprising and
equally uuaccountable by any art or
science with which Europeans or
Americans appear to ba acquainted
NOWADAYS. | have seen man throw
M into the mir number OF balls mum
bered in succession from one upwards,
As each went up, and there was no de
ception about their going MP, the ball
was seen clearly III the air, getting
smaller and smaller till it disappeared
altogether ont Of sight. When they
were all NJ twenty or more, the oper-
ator would politely ask which ball you
wanted to see. and ,hen would shout
to No. |, No Is. and 50 OIL, as in,truc-
ted bv the spectators. when the bail
demanded would bound to his feet,
violently, from some remote distance.
"Then I've seen them swallow .h!ec
different coIored powders, and then,
throwing back the head, wash them
down with water, drunk in the native
fashion in cUH,iHuOu, stream from a
lotgh, or brass pot, held at arms length
till the swollen body could not hold
another drop, and the water oveItiowcd
from the lips Then these fellows, ar-
ter squirting out the water in their
mouths, have spat ont She three pow
ders on to a clean piece of paper, dry
and uumiXcd As to the thimhlrrig-
gerry OF their minor tricks, hey are cN-
ccedingIy expert, but are probably
cuuaicd ny many Of cur distinguished
Drestidigjtatcurs and Whatever may
he said OF the basket and mango
tricks, or the sitting in the air, don t
think any of our people are up to the
sending OF balls into space and recall
ing them in all nprCmeditated ord r.
This reminds me of the trick Marco
Pole. the great, Ncnitian Traveller of
earlier tim >, speaks Of having seen at
the court of nre5ter John, in Central
Asia, when a bean was planted and
sprung mp rapidly toward the Ii, ,avens,
its summit being lost in the clouds
Up this one iug9Ier Travelled, and then
another after him with a drawn sword
In few minutes down dropped ears,
a nose. head, and limbs Of No. | ;
No = lci-urylv dcSccuds. wiDiug a
bloody sword, shOvels up. the frag-
ments of his victim into a box and
goes on with other performances.
pr, s1ntlv calling out to his dvfunct
companion. who thcreupon presents
himself, as large as life, all alive and
kicking. from the thromg This is not
modern trick, but those. have seen
are certainly hot less marvellous.
Then too, it is Il well authenticated
fact that some Of these iuggl r., on
more chan one occasion in recent wears.
have suffered themselves to be hurried
alive, and have been dug out alive al~
ter the lapse of 4 year"
CURrosITY Suop.-Tallow candles
for light in 1860.
Spectacles invented by an Italian in
124S
Glass windows were first used fol
Jle Ntiii9Hl'i VI l'4HC III iIoV
WOODEN cloth made in England 1871
Chimneys were first put to houses
in 1886.
Frogs live from u TO II ,ears-i
not eaten.
Art of printing from moycahle type
III li40
There are $4,000 species of living
animals
HAWKS can fly at the rate of l5t
miles an hour.
Ducks can fly at the rate of sc mile:
an hour.
The falcon can hy az the rate of I,
miles an hour.
The sparrow can fly at the rate o
% miles an huur.