The Red Cloud chief., 1881-02-17
sHOW CONJURERS OPERATE.
An Ex-Professor Exposes the Secrets Of Il

duces different liquors, and apparently
in endless quantity, was first made pop.
ular IN this country by Prof. Anderson,
and since his day has been exhibited by
very maDy 'magicians." OF late years.
it has been sold in the t~oy-shops, and
the priblic have learned that its effect is
due in part to q well-known principle
in physics, and in part TO the wine
glasses used, which are made so as TO
contain, at most. not more than a Thin
bleful. The trick having become COM
mon and generally understood, con-
jurers began to look about for a means
whereby something similar in effect
might DO produced. but by altogether
dissimilar means. The result is a bot.
tle-trick in which lager-beer is furnished
In sufficient quantity TO satisffthe thirst
of large audience. Il is a very effect.
i've trick, and { o it one well-known per
former almost entirely owes his success.
ltis only suitable for public exhibition,
however, as the beer Is pumped up
from beneath tho stage, and passes
through rubber tubing, concealed in
the dress of the performer, to the bot
tie held in the hand. The connection
with the stage is made by means of a
hollow boot-heel, and during the prog.
ress of the trick, the performer Is una
bic to move.
Senior Patrizio, ono Of the cleverest
conjurers that ever visited our shores,
but whose imperfect knowledge of our
language was a bar TO his success,
made quite a hit in this trick, and
spurrcd the ambition of the amateurs.
One of these gentlemen, a fellow-coun-
tryman of Patrizio, and a recognized
''society-man." by dint of much per.
suasiou and many dollars induced
the senior to give him the secret of the
trick.
This once secured, he was anxious to
show his accomplishments { D his friends.
He ordered the necessary apparatus,
hired the Union League Theater, and
issued invitations for q 'swelT' enter
tainment. He did not consider il worth
while to rehearse. Not he! Such un-
necessary labor might be well enough
for professionals" but Hot for one of
his transcendent genius. On the night
of the entertainment, his assistant was
taken ill, and the Colonel-for he wa
a military man as well rs a conjurer-
"No Az W Sdll III u dtu vi tlf.
d. who had for many years assisted
Rcoert Heller. This latter gentleman,
called on so suddenly, could not be ex-
pected to understand the Colonel little
p~eculiarities; but, nevertheless, man
aged tcuarry him tolerably well through
the performance, until the '.inexhausti-
bio bottle," the event of the evening
was reached.
"Now, zen, LADIES' and gentlemens.
since you ave been SO kinder as ia
honor me wiz your praisance to-er-
night, j shall asker Zst you-cr will join-
er me in a glass-er of champagne"
By this time he was greatly excited.
He was about to convince the "best
people" of New York, le desssss du
Pan,cr, that he was the peer Of any con-
jurer who eve trod the boards. He
took his position near a table: his heel
was screwed to the stage by the man
below, who Was in charge of the pump,
n the assistant entered with q tray of
goblets.
Mower, zen." cried the Colonel.
"for Ze-er champagne"
He gave the signal, and the man at
the pump began to send up the liquor.
The colonel held the mouth of the bottle
over a goblet, but, strange to say, moth
ing came forth. He stamped on the
stage with the foot that was free. and
faster and faster the man piled the
pump. Still no liquor. The Colonel
grew more and more excited.
"See what is ze mattair," he said in
IN "aside" TO his assistant, who placed
the goblets on the table and hurried off
the stage. Everything appeared to be
all right. and MIR. D. had Just re.
turned to his position on the STAGE
when there came a Kissing noise, A. OF
escaping steam, and the next moment
the gallant Colonel was drenched from
head to foot with champagne. II
poured from his sleeves, trickled down
his back. and streamed forth from his
trowsers-lag. In vain he attempted to
stem tIe torrent; he was fixedimmora-
DIV to the stage, screwed into position,
and the more he exerted himself to get
free, the furiously the pump was
worked. The Colonel had kept his
word. for here was champagne in album
dance, and amid the screams and 10
piause of the delighted audience, and
the courses loud and Deep of the dis
gusted performer, the curtain fell.
1t seems that, in the excitement of
the moment, the Colonel forgot to turn
on the tap which regulated the flow of
h win into the bottle, and when the
rubber-tubing could hold no mo e, it !
burst.
The moral of which is: never ATTEMPT !
a trick until you have rehearsed it.
An audience is always pleased when
they are offered. some refreshment, |
whether in the shape of bonbons from
a hat, wine from an .sinexhaustible
bottle" or coffee produced from white
beans. Knowing this, the elder Herr
man, during his first engagement in
this country-about 1860, l think-intro-
duced' a very taking trick. which he
christened Marabout Mocha.
His programme at the time was what |
is popularity known as an Eastern"
one. and was supposed to consist ex-
clusively of the tricks exhibited by the
much-bepuffed Indian jugglers: hence
the name.
In introducing the trick. the perform
er shows two boxes, one containing
bits of black muslin of about an inch
square, and the other pieces of white
paper. Then he hands out for exami-
nation two Large colored glass or China
jars. Il have here tive large jars" he
SAYS. "of Bohemian glass, made in
Williamsburgh. They IRE the only re-
naming two of q dozen which l once
owned. Don't drop them. for you might
break them, and to break a dozen
dOesn do" (,
The examination completed, he pro-
ceeds to fill one jar with the bits of rags, |
and the other with the pieces of paper.
Then, he rolls two newspapers into
cylindrical shapes. r~emarking, as he
pins them to preserve their form,
With q pin-so. Though it is needle
less to remark that we never sew with
a PIN, With these paper cylinders he
covers the jars, and on. removing the
covers, ? moment later, he pours from
one jar Boiling coffee. with the remark,
"NO grounds for complaint here" and
from the other hot milk-"The milk of
m kindness as extracted. from the
daily press.'A The coffee is then served