The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-04-26

.,.nsuid Blonde Medium" Whooa
PerSormanoes have 1leo-
tried Paris

u.,,s has been enjoying ~ unwontell
.s.tion of late with reference to
se.sr.ai.m and the tTance-state, or. In
msS more accurately, two sensotiona.
r.. expcriments Of DR.. Charcot found
I J. ecl,o in the seamces given by Donate
."S Mile. Lucille, which attracted more
s .,",sntion than any similar performances
. .;rrr the time Of Mesmer, and provoked
s s".h criticism and imitation. N. Car
Iii whose Subject" IL tall and pen-
Ice Ilonde, Mile. Mariani, has certainly
s s'"e...letl in dividing public attention
9Th Donate, who, by the way, IL shortly
:" arrive here. His na0ol,ss 0perandi Il
.S.t usually employed by nlesmerists.
"a the subject having been cast into Z
.....netic sleepthe customary manifesto
. is follow. She stands erect, rigid.
."orrse-like, with eyes open and staring.
S.fchex are burned under her nose and
,;.hts held close to the eyeball without
LAYING her. Brought out Of the trance.
n. returns to lie again with 4 melan.
.iolv sigh and IN expression OF Weari-
as..s touching In the extreme. Once
'.sorr she il brought en- rapport with Car
Iii. four men are placed In . row on the
.t.re and lnde lean against each other
~;sh nil their force to make . barrier
..sinst her, and Mt Carmelli's gesture Of
Command she breaks through the living
~slI 10 Join him US II It were . slender
thread. Twelve people write each q
"nestiOn on slip Of paper, aud q spectar
s,cr I'm a remote corner Of the room draws
me Of the slips, the writing on which 10
81 once revealed by the medium. A
,cmDIitatctl calculation In arithmetic IL
simultaneously performed. A dice-l,ox
With eight dice Is produced, and on
throw being made Mile. Mariani states
the total correctly; am. ther throw IL
isde and again she states the number
test. A long pin is thrust completely
through her arm without awaking her,
and finally the cataleptic Is laid upon
three chairs, and not only IL the CEN
tnl one removed, but the magetizer
stands up on her body, which il support
I'd rigid Us u beam by the unyieIding
muscles. Having concluded these ex-
Drrin.ents, Carmelh bows to his APP
plsuAing aupience, and says: Ladies
and gentlemen, Mile. Mariani and my.
relf have had the honor Of humbugging
you all the time. She is not asleep and
never was. YOn may rise, Madeln0l-
seiie." and the living corpse" with
out waiting for the Formally of awaken
ine passcs, jumps up laughing bows to
the audience and runs off, When the
electrified audience has recovered ils
eo,,animity, Carmelli obligingly ex-
plains that his subject IL an expert and
clever performer that when the matches
are burned under her nose she takes q
full breath, and instead Of inhaling
sently and steadily bresthes out 50 long
" the fumes are rising; that she fixes
her eye on point before the light Is
vave,i before It and keeps her gaze
stesliily fixed on It that four men r~ng-
Cd in y row not only offer no more
assistance than one man, but that the
barrier is broken the more easily In pro-
portion tn the strength with which they
lean against each other that the mys-
terio,,s question was known to her in
advance and ''fOrced" upon the selected
spectator, and the aritl,lDetIcal problem
vas given by q. confederate /; that the
die were loaded and to bring up .
different number in the second throw
one die was removed that there Is In
everyb0sly's arm . place where the
member can 30 perforated without sem
ntion or bleeding, and that the
''cataleMic" ft'Ats were merely tricks
known t., any circus performer. Ad.
hitting the truth and gcnuinenese Of all
Of Dr. Charcot's experiments, he adds
that the phenomena in question are o'.-
u produced in cases where disease exists
and cannot he reproduced IN persons Of
sound health. The whole performance,
il may readily he supposed, does not pro-
woke the enthusiastic approval of the
''seriol,~" l,lagnetixcrs.