The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-12
The Mango Trick.
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with certain Indian jugglers the "man-
con trick is their most effective feat. A
mango seed is produced, and flower-pot
filed with mold, and, after lot OF ceremony
lin plain English, fuss), the seed is put
npder the mold and several coverings OF
baskets aud cloths are placed over the pot.
Then there Is more ceremony and lingering
ahout the covered basket, and the pot
il shown with the mango leaves Just sproui-
ing M. Then II is covered over again aud
more hocussing goes on, and the cover Is
lifted up again and the plant Is seen TO nave
grown. The covering, focusing, and OPEN
Ing 90 on. the plant meanwhile having FUR
tber grown and become strong enough 10
bear fruit. the blossoms TO appear, the trtiit
10 form, and finally the fruit to ripeD, which
is then plucked of and given to be eaten.
Now we, for our part, cannot understand
how any one can fan to see through the
performance. Nay, even when to fellow
srectator, who once viewed this perform
az ce, we explained the details OF the trick
after IL was over, he would not believe, Out
reckoped the affair wonderful and even par
taking OF the supernatural. we can only
attribute it TO his having been so mystifed
ss 10 have been actually mesmerized. though
partakipg of consciousness. The real
truth about this feat was that the green
and ripe fruits, and every branch and
shoot that was exhibited. were actually
there Just as much as the seed and the
fower.pot--all in the wraps and folds
and baskets which. formed the covering.
We were carefully watching the mans pro-
ceedinas, and at the time bad acquired
some knowledge OF Juggling tricks. AS we
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of the exhibition after the particular per-
Torrance began, the baskets, wraps, &C..
could not be disturbed; but with our own
eyes we saw the performer draw out the
branches, &C., from the folds OF the cloths,
aud noticed him sticking theminto the pot
beneslh the covering, working away with
his hands, and, as we thought, very clum-
silly.
The question may be asked by doubter
OF orr account Of the process. how about
a green and a ripe fruit, as well as BIOS
SONS, being produced simultaneously, say
at a period when there are no such things
that is, when they are out OF season ? This,
indeed. has been brought forward as CON-
plete answer by those who believe in these
iupg,ers. To answer this is not so difficult,
however, as IL appears. India lisa vast contl-
nent, and from its southesnmost limit on the
Indian ocean, where there is little difference
between summer and winter, to its northern
boundary on the snowy Himalaya, there is
existing every variety OF climate at any
given time OF the year. The mango -four
ishes equally in Ceylon and In the sub-Hi-
malayan countries. We have ourselves, IN
passing through the plains into the upper
Himalayas, in the course OF successive
weeks, seen the mango season just over on
The plains; a little higher up mangoes were
ipst in season, the fruits forming higher up
still: the blossoms in full flush couple OF
thousand feet higher; while higher still
the blossoms had not yet made an appear.
ance. With this fact are TO be taken
two Others; the first, that Indian 1ugglers
all belong to one Masonic brotherhood, and
are In intimate communication with one an
other, all eyer on the move; and the Sec
opdr that even they will decline at times to
perform this particular feat--that Is, when
they are not provided with the blossoms,
green and ripe fruits. The seeds, shoots,
&C., are always everywhere procurabe.
II there be still any other doubter let MS
only add that after the performance detailed
above we took the man aside UNWILLING,
naturally, TO expose the man, and destroy
the credit by means OF which be made his
Iiying) and asked him II it was not true that
The branches and fruits were all there in the
wraps. The glance Of our eye told him that
we knew every detail in the process, and
had watched everything that he did, and so
he confessed that what We said was the
ruth, and apologized by saying that be
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