The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-10-09


hands. She prevented the strongest
person from keeping any object at rest
by simply placing the palms of her
hands against the object.
FROM THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
A tilt with the champion athlete and
muscle cultivator, Professor Latin, is
described as follows:
when the curtain again rose, two
huge men walked up the red carpeted
steps amid roars of applause. They
were Major Pond and Professor Latin,
the athlete, both of them good men and
weighing an unknown quantity. Mr..
Latin wrestled with the girl, but was
forced to give in every time. He tried
the billiard cue test over again, carefully
wiping it with his handkerchief before
grasping it. He tried the chair test, and
reeled about the stage. Major Pond de
clined to step forward, despite the loud
and yociferOus calls of Pond Pond +!
from his many friends in the house.
By this time, the spectators were In the
highest of good humor. They laughed
when Miss Hurst dragged three men
about the stage as they chung cOnvulsiye-
ly to the rungs of the chair they shire 'Ied
as q young man in green coat stepped
confidently up the steps, seized the
chair, and after a wild endeaVOr to force
it to the ground, tumbled ingloriously
under it; they roared as the aged man
first experimental upon wiped his brow
YEARLY after another trial and walked
off the stage out of the house Finally,
when by placing her hands at each side
of the chair, Miss Hurst made it twist
about as though induced with life, they
applauded as even Lester Wallack would
find it difficult to make them applaud,
with all his art and genius"
HOW "NYM CRINKLE" PUTS IT.
Miss Lulu Hurst is simply doing for
the senses what her sex has been doing
for the soul these thousand years.
She puts the tips of her fingers on the
brawny and trained savage, and away
goes grayitation, cohesion and logic.
Things begin co fly up, instead of obedi-
emily falling down, Twice two all at
once makes six and three-quarters,
parallel lines converge, mathematics
look like minstrel jokes and physical
laws are just about as mixed and reliable
as statute laws.
THE NEW YORK TRUTH CRITIC.
$50 far as l am individually concerned,
| am free to admit my inability to ex-
plain Miss Hurst's power. l have
wrestled with her over the umbrella, the
billiard cue and the chair, and the fact
that the force she exerts is so much
greater than that which have hereto
fore encountered in either woman or
man, leads me to incline to the mag
netic theory, or at least to the existence
of force more potent than that OF
mere muscular power. But this is q
question for scientists to determine,
and l shall not bother my brain about
it. may say, however, that If we are
to explain Miss Hurst's prowess on the
muscular theory, she becomes 4 greater
wonder than ever.
Among others struggling with the
Wonder" yesterday, was Mr.. Joseph
Murphy, the actor, who had an abiding
ing faith in his own strength. and who,
greatest assurance. The consequence
was that he Jared worse than usual, for
after few moments struggling he was
thrown fat on his back.
"Well2" / said to him as he came
flushed, putting and perspiring off the
stage.
II don't know what it is" he an
swered, "but I'd rather try to hold
wild horse than that girl.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE.
| have met thousand wiseacres who
know all about the Lulu Hurst business.
The unfortunate thing about all their
explanation is. that not one of them &C
counts for the phenomenon.
The fact is that scientists are so jealous
Of the general intelligence that they ridi
Guile anything that has not been dis
covered by one of themselves, and they
will never permit anybody to believe in
the genuineness of ANYTHING science
cannot account for. They have some
scientific explanation of mesmerism,
which, however, simply defines the pro-
,ess and the result.
THE DRAMATIC NEWS OPINION.
When 1 visited Wallack's Theatre on
Monday evening to witness the great
iorce" exerted by Miss Lulu Hurst the |
Georgia wonder, I contemplated "a
racket" and a swindle such as L nave /
upon many similar occasions |
At the start-there was nothing con
;ealed apparently in this performance.
She was not inside a cabinet; she Iilaue
no excuses; there was no limit to lnVes-
legation; she was perfectly willing 70 re-
peat all experiments, and she mace no
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Latin, the athlete. held billiard cue. I
Miss Hurst placed her hand upon .le