Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-26
MagIc's wonders.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

"While in London. England -.
time ago." said the professor, ssons
Oxford-street waiter was made Tho ~; III
tim of practical joke. One morn;Ns
as this tonsorial artist sat read;no h;ss
newspaper, he was startled by SEEING
young man enter in very excited
manner, who, throwing, rather thar
seating himself in the chair, demanded
a shave instanter. The barber, who was
a ready fellow, at once set about obevs
| ing the commands Of this excited and
hurried guest. With q rapidity that
surprised himself, he shaved the right
side of his customers face, and then
Immediately turned to the left. That
side he also shaved with cleanliness
and dispatch, but. judge Ct his surprise
when his customer demanded to know
in tones anything but pleased why he
did not shave the right side. The poor
bewildered barber was almos. certain
that he had done SO, but perceived, :
his surprise, that the side in question
was covered with jet-black hair. Again
he shaved it, but while he did SO, to
his surprise and horror, the hair was
growing on the other side. Thus it con-
tinued for an hour. While he shaved
one side he could actually see the hair
growing on the other side. Ter
rified beyond oppression, he
stood motionless; hereupon the young
man leaped from the chair, and, and,
snatching the razor, drew it across his
throat and fell to the floor covered with
blood. The barber flew into the street
hallooing "Murderp' at the top of his
Aoice. A crowd soon gathered, and,
with the affrighted barber, beheld the
supposed corpse quietly arranging his
tie before the mirror very
pleasantly, he paid the barber and de-
parted. A theatrical gentleman among
the lookers-on soon gave it out that it
was Professor Hermann, the great
American Magician. / went to my no.
tel and awokc next day to find myself
the talk of London" concluded the
Professor, "for it was / who did it.
gave the poor barber fits. Did you
exer hear how gave q frienG of mind
the snakes?'' asked the Professor. On
receiving an answer in the negative, he
said: "a friend of mine, who was as
great drunkard as an actor, and that
is saying q great deal, was one morning
seen by me to enter drinking saloon
when he was almost on the verge 81
delirium-tremens, and knowing his
horror of snakes as mania o. potu is
vulgarly called, l resolved to save him.
I entered just as he raised q glass Of
whisky to his lips, and, rushing for
ward, 1 snatched the glass from his
hand, crying at the same time =
Hold, S., until / take this fly
out Pretending to take the fly out, |
held up a serpent. c. cried out: MY
God that is snake 7 Not at ALL
said l; it is simple house-fy. See?
you are covered with Them saying
which 1 approached, and from his
sleeves, and hair, etc., l proceeded to
pull snakes, protestin: all the time that
they were flies. They are snakes T
cried G. again. My God that is a
snake; l tell you, Hermann, they are
snakes 7 Nonsense said |, they are
but flies Then said he, I have the
snakes myself and he rushed from
the saloon. He was not seen for more
than n week after; but when next seen
he was sober, and has been SO SINCE"
Professor" asked the interviewer,
"were you, who are SO fond of surpris-
ing others, ever surprised yourself?"
"Once," was the answer: then the sur
prise was a very great and agreeable
one, assure you. 1t came about in
this way: I was for a number of years
q sufferer from cramps in my left side,
Immediately under the heart. / suf-
fered regularly at the close of each per
Torrance, and very often WAS COM
PEELED to cancel engagements which |
had made, owing to my inability to fill
them, being Frustrated by cramps, and
being in very weak condition. en-
tertained very serious thoughts of CIV
ing up my profession and spending
some years in travel, and would have
done so but for an attendant of mine,
whose head l had cut off occasionally
while performing my wonderful decapi
tation act. The individual to whom |
complained of the pains and cramps
in my side on one occasion and said it
was curiops-that l, who could decapi-
tate another and replace his head at
will, ought certainly be able to cure
myself. l told him how some of the
best doctors in Europe and America
had failed. He laughed at me, and
said he could cure me in a week. That
night he presented me with bottle OF
St. Jacobs Oil, the Great German Rem
edy, saying that its use would produce
an effect more magical than | could
readily believe. laughed at the idea
of st. Jacobs Oil doing what had baf-
fled the greatest doctors, but said that |
would try it, simply to convince him
that trying it would do no good. That
night, on retiring, I rubbed my side
with the Oil, and sure enough, its good
effect was MISUNDERSTANDING in
fact; l felt relieved at once. l slept
better that night than had done for
a long time before. Again in the morn
ing rubbed with the Oil, and at the
close of the afternoon performance ]
noticed great diminution Of the
cramps. Was l surprised? Well, /
Was very much surprised, and told my
attendant so. In less than week, and
before had finished using ny third
bottle, was entirely and permanently