Connecticut western news., 1884-07-23
JUGGLERS TRICKS. SOME STRANGE ONES THAT HAVE
 NEVER BEEN EXPLAINED. Climbing Into the Ar and Returning Dis membered-Disappe airing in Smoke.

membered-DisappeRri airing In Smoke.
 "When was younger" said an anna teur iuggler after a dinner, land was travelling around the country with an idea in my head that the office of Amer jeans was to teach the world, as a con- sequence, often got left, as the Arabs say. On this occasion went ashore at an Arab village four or five miles inland, where it was reported that famous iuggler lived. We were jolly party, all besides myself being sailors, and having hard time riding on the native ponies they had provided us with; but, after many capsizes, we managed to reach our destination, where we found the fakir, and made up purse of about two dollars, without which nothing could be done. Some of his tricks beat anything ever came across.
 ''He was tall, thin, olive-hued fel- low, with long black hair caught up be- hind and tied with a string. He was extremely reticent, and all through the performance neither smiled nor uttered word. His first trick was to arrange our party about him in a circle of about thirty feet in diameter, and we were so close together that no one could pass out without our knowing it. To prevent such possibility he gave us a cord to hold. This being done, he and smaller native, with bundle of wood, took their places in the center. The young man arranged the wood in pile and lighted it, and when 1t blazed up the older man seized him and threw him upon the flames and immediately there arose a dense, suffocating smoke that seemed a mixture of flesh and sandal wood. It rose rbout their heads and spread about until it completely hid them, and from it came such groans and cries that several of the men called out that we had better take a hand, as the boy was being murdered. But l re- minded them that it was only trick, no matter how realistic. We waited, perhaps, five minutes, when the yells ceased and the smoke gradually cleared away, and there stood the fakir alone, the young man having, to all intents and purposes, been burned. He was scooping something from the fire-evi- dently ashes-into a flask which was handed to us and passed around-the cremated remains of the assistant"
 "But." interrupted a gentleman at the foot of the table, "didn't he slip out in the smoke"
 'There was no place to go, was the reply ''as we were in a clearing, away from trees and bushes. But the stran- gestpartis to come, he continued. "Af- ter passing the flask around he took it back, and placed it in the centre of the circle, and, putting some wood under it, liehtedit. Almost immediately the flask began to grow before our eyes; the fire blazed, and rich odor of sandal-wood fioated about, and in ten minutes the flask had expanded until it was the size of large keg. The fire was then put out, and we were beckoned to come near and examine. touched it, and it seemed a jar of earth made of plaster and mud; it had ringing sound as l struck it with my seal-ring; to the hand was hot After looking it over we re- turned to our places; the old fakir then took hammer, waved his hands in the air. uttered some mystic words, and struck the vessel hard blow that broke it in pieces, when out stepped the boy we had seen-or thought we had seen- cremated, as bright as you please. l should be glad to have the trick solved, but have never found any one who could explain it satisfactorily. Some aver that the old fakir concealed the young man about his own person; but that was sim ply impossible, as felt of the fakir my self, and he had nothing on but shirt, open in the back, and pair of trowsers.
 "These tricks are equally as remark able" continued the story-toller, "as those Polo claims to have witnessed in China, years ago.
 "Another consisted in the conjurer taking a ball of wood that had been perforated in several places, and through which strings were passed, and hurling it up into the air. Up it went, dragging the cord after it, and finally disappear ing. The head man now instructed a boy assistant to mount, which he did, cl imbing up the cord until, finally, the spectators lost sight of him, or thought they did. The fakir now seemed to be in distress at losing him, and called loudly, then, as if in a rage, he seized the rope and clambered mp after him, having knife in his mouth. In a few moments dismembered leg, all bloody
 fell to the earth; then another, severa
 fingers; and, finally, the head ant trunk. Finally, the old fakir himself
 appeared, his clothes covered with gore looking like a butcher.
 "As soon as he recovered from hi evident exertion he went through som, mummery, and, collecting the dismem bered and bleeding parts, gave the bod, push, waved his hand over it, an, seizing the body by the hand ierked i to it's feet, and of it walked, nothinl the matter with it.
 "In Bangkok similar feat was vii messed a few years ago by Mir. Ralpl Churchill. The iuggler tossed a ropv ladder into the air, and sent goats, dogs cats, boys and alligators up one afte
 another. All of them appeared runnin 1. toward him from distant quarter, te e minutes later. These are tricks thf q seem almost superhuman, yet are lu a dicrously simple when known. "-Ciy s cinnad Enquirer.