Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-08-19
WAYS OF THE WIZARD.
INV Some Ofths Tricks Of the Fire
Flend are Done.
Setting Water on Fire, Melting Steel and TAX
ing a Bath in Molten lead-Ths Hand
writing on the Wall-The Magic
Copper and 0bedisnt
Gard.

ing TIE WfEAEu IA his uSu.
\ ring al the dsOr-bell of q modest
boarding house proved the open sesame
tothc enchanted realms wherein Mr..
Psraday resided, and presently the re-
portorial pump was at work.
'What is the most difficult part Of
the business"
ATTRACTING an audience, by all
means. Young man And right here is
where the pleasing form and features OF
the young woman for whom l adver-
tised come in play. She must not only
be good looking, but she must dress in
the latest and loudest style. The aver
sge CCuntryman will paym more money
10 see n good looking, stylish city wo-
man in a short dress on his local stage
than he Viii for almost anything else.
I~mmodesty? Nulgarity2 On my dear
sir, the performance is entirely clean,
snd the young wOman's mother, or
other attendant, generally travels with
IL. la reality the girl plays but small
part ia amusing the audience beyond
her natural charms Of person; but, asI
said, Size Is the loadstOne that draws
the shtcklSs into our Golfers. AS YOU
sac or this hand-bili displaying asmall
nine Iy twelve sheet adorned with a
tut Of what WIS, no doubt, meant to be
= handsome young lady, with a most
astounding development OF bust and
lower limits, she is very prominently
advertised, and, on reaching a town il
Il part other business to be on the
streets
A. MUCh a. Possible. Clothed Ina
Latest style.
Il have known more than one girl,
who was lot troubled by much oynes
10 he followed by a route of admiring
villages, %il commenting upon her ap.
ptaIancr and asking who she was. OF
Cvurr, in an hour the whole town
knows all about the fair invader, aud
tlOS, WHO have not seen her on the
street go 10 the hall to catch q glimpse
OF her there; while those who nave seen
her want To see how she looks in her
fsGCS Stage costume
But the girl is not the whOleshOw ,"
by 10 meaps. She is but a small
p#yt OF it, and If the rest of the enter
taiHnirnt i not fully up to the adyer-
tised attractions the professor had bet
ter look a little out.
Il make a speciality myself of the fire
business, and / don't mind letting you
IL To some OF the simple secrets"
Upon my first appearance on the
scene | request some boy in the audi
q ce to procure me a small bueketful of
We'll water. When | have convinced
every hOIy that the bucket is an Ordiu-
any TIN bucket and the bucket is all
right, unseen | slip a small quantity of
p,tasium into the water, and instant
~ it bursts into a beautiful flame. This
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pc rfOTnIuucr. Tue show is often given
in the district school house, aud tue
lights are merely lanterns or candles
stuck IA toItles. When this is the case
| take one OF the candles, set it upon
my table, and ask any man IN tue audi
enCe Who doubts that can melt a bar
of steel m it, flame 70 furnish me with
any steel triuket that he may have
about him "A piece of steel watch-chiin
or an old knife blade, almost anything
in fact.
Something IL Always FOI theOminE
and / have my assistant hold 1t i'm the
Candl, flame by means of a pair of PIN
GERS until il Is red hot
"'Hy the might of his giant will,
Faraday, the. Fire King, cOmpels you
to melt say, making passes in the
air all about the piece OF steel, and then
4 touch il, sCemIngl.' with my naked
hand, but really with q piece of hrim-
stone concealed i'm my palm, when the
steel Instantly melts and drops like
lead.
What is my best trick? Well,that's
hard TO tell; but the handwriting on
the wall has gwen more than one poor
wretch the snIvers for a week. After a
long and solemn harrangue, in the
course of which my assistant is gradual
" putting out the lights in the hall, L
shrek a. the top OF my voice, al the
same time pointing TO the wall above
the stage: Behold, Satan sends you
Ihr name of the greatest natural NEGRO
nancrr the world has seen" And with
Tho last word out go the remaining
LIGHTS and q ghostly blue flame dances
uTOn the wall, presently shaping itself
into some Hebrew characters ana the
single word, 'Faraday.'
lin halls lighted by gas it IS ludicrous
to see the fright pictured on the faces OF
the people when the gas Is suddenly
apain turned on. More than one girl Is
caught nesting very close up TO her
young man"
teyy, suppose"
phnrus and a dark room a man can DO
almost anything.
n One Ofthe Most Effective feE-
Of my handsome assistant is taking q
hath in molten metal. \ half ounce OF
rsmpEOr two ounces of bOle-ammOnlac,
one ounce of quicksilver and twoounceS
OF aqua wife, mixed and well beaten III
a brass mortar, applied as an ointment
10 the face and hands, makes them I'M
previous to the heat IN molten leSu.
when my young woman, Win her
bewitchiug smile, dips her hand INTO
the kettle simmerlng on u SuTiaCe III
full sight of the audience, the nan -
still - death. When she cOopS up
handful Of the glittering liquid u aP-
plies il To her cheek, sometimes Tue III
ence i. broken by q cry; but the end oil
the act always brings down the house.
OF course, the whole evening Is uOI
snert ON fireworks. One of the SIM
plest Of MY acts l call the magic cop
per.
have small, round dice-box, whose
inside diameter Is exactly the outSlue
diameter Of a copper cent II IS llGeu
with black paper, and the head sue
Of the conner is covered with the same
paper, so that when il lies In the ooA
head up it will appear as though there
is nothing there. l secure q copper
cent from one Of the audience, ask MN
tostcp up on the stage, and %ostensi6iy
drop mis- cent into the bOX-in realltS,
however, dropping in my own.
shake the box up and down, SO that ne
. may hear the money there; then cry
Away and shake il sidewise, When, 81
course. no sound Is heard. Upon TAX
ing OF the box lid the copper seems
really TO have vanished.
THE effect Of the mystery De III
creased by quietly taking the money
from your pocket, whittier
He viii Think It Has Gone ~ Magic
Then | have q little card trlcA
NphfgL "a yaFU a1nlDlH,