The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-03-16
THE MANGO TRICK.
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With certain indian jugglers the
mango" trick is their most effective
feat. 4 mango seed is produced, and .
flower pot filed with mold, and after
lot of. ceremony (in plain English FUSS,
the seed is put under the mold and sew
eraI coverings Of baskets aud cloths are
placed over the pot. Then there is more
ceremony and lingering about the COY
cred basket, and the pot is shown with
the mango leaves just sprouhng up.
Then it is covered over again and more
hocassing goes on, and the cover IS
lifted up again and the plant Is seen to
have grown. The covering, hocusslng,
90 on, the plant meanwhile having
further grown and become strong enough
to bear fruit the blossom t. appear, the
fruit to ripen, which is then plucked Oft
and given to be eaten.
Now, we, for our part, can not under
stand how any one can see through the
performance. Nay, even when to a
fellow spectator, who once viewed this
performance, we explained the details OF
the trick after it was over, he would not
believe, but reckoned the affair wonder
full, and even partaking Of the super
natural We can only attribute it to his
having been so mystifed as to have been
actually mesmerized, though partaking
Of conscience. 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 flower pot
all in the wraps and folds and baskets
which formed the covering. We were
carefully watching the mans proceed
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knowledge Of Juggling tricks. AS we
were not allowed to touch the IN
struments of the exhibition after the par
ticular performance began, the baskets,
wraps, ETC., could not be disturbed; but
with our own eyes we saw the performer
draw out the branches, etc, from the
folds Of the cloth, and noticed him stick
ing them into the pot beneath the cover
ing, working away with his hands, and
as we thought, very clumslly
The question may be asked by a
doubter of our account of the process,
how about a green and a ripe fruit, as
well as blossoms, being produced sim
ultaneously, say at period when there
we're no such things; that is, when they
are out of season? This, indeed, has
been brought forward as a conplete
answer by those who believe IN these
iupQlers. To answer this is not so diff
ficult, however, as it appears. ndiais a
vast continent, and from its southern
most limit on the Indian Ocean, where
there is little difference between summer
and winter, to its northern boundary on
the snowy Himafhyas, there is existing
every variety of climate at any given
time of the year. The mango fouIishes
equally in Ceylon and in the sub
Himalayan countries. We have our
selves, in passing through the plains
into the upper Himalayas, In the course
of successive weeks, seen the mango
season Just over on the plains; little
higher up mangOes were Just IN season;
the fruits forming higher up still; the
blossoms in full flush q couple Of
thousand feet higher; while higher still
the blossoms had not yet made on ap-
pearance. With this fact are to be taken
two others, the first, that Indian Jug
glers all belong to one Masonic brother
hood, and are in intimate oOmmUnica-
ton with one another, all ever on the
move; and the second, that even they
will decline at times to perform this par
ticular feat; that is, when they are not
provided with the blossoms, green and
ripe fruits. The seeds, shoots, etc., are
always everywhere procurable.
If there be still any other doubter, let
us 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 he made his living) and asked him
if it was not true that 86e branches and
fruits were all there in the wraps. The
glance of our eye told him that we knew
everything that he did, and 80 he con-
fessed that what we said was the truth,
and apologized by saying that he must
make living.