Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-22
NO. 251.

which had been the sensation in the Eden Musee for some months past. Mme. Heller appeared in light drapery; rug was placed on the stage, large sheet of paper and a chair thereon, the lady sitting on the chair. Then Hermann enveloped her in 6 thin but not gauzy dark green sheet that completely covered her while revealing the contour of her figure. In Paris almost in- stantly the covering was removed and the lady had vanished, but Hermann required slow music and it was several moments be- fore the sheet was removed and the vacant chair discovered. Of course he directed at tention by glances to every part of the stage than that he sought-not to the rear corner where he touched spring that immedi- ately detected in letting his wife and the chair drop to the regions below, while the apparent gauge sustained (by it's vertical were used, producing optical delusion, were advanced, but very careful scrutiny (always watch the magician and not the point at which he directs attention) discovered the spring, and sitting near I could hear the me- chanism.
 I have never read an expose of Heller's Psycho trick, which has mystifed most be- holders. The pigmy figure of half body with head and arms and sectional shelf of figures across the front is placed on hollow glass cylinder. At Hellers command Psycho masters the most intricate cubes and squares, the head and arm moving from side to side, the latter selecting figures and placing them to form correct answer. The theory was that the arm and head were moved by elec- trlc wires, but the glass support rendered that impossible. It puzzled me for some time, but I finally discovered, just how I'll not say, that it was worked by compressed air circulating in the glass cylinder from one of the feet of the pedestal The assistant in the wing worked the supply tube by ball, one press setting the arm to moving, two dropping it on the figure, third picking it up when it moved listlessly until another double pressure dropped the numeral in it's place. The magician wore flash button, that is one of the buttons on the small of the back Of his dress coat, which was connected with pocket battery-you have seen those electric flashing scarf pins-and gave the cue for the figure, he being lightning calcula- tor. Years ago it took me three nights to discover his trick of the sphinx-an Egyp- tian head that rose out of the table after the removal of box. The table stood in the center of the stage apparently perfectly clear underneath, with one corner facing the au- dience. The head talked and was obviously alive, but there was not possibility of it's be- ing connected with body, because the top of the table was not one and half inches thick and it was entirely clear underneath. On the third night, having exhausted all my theories, I threw putty ball from blower 1 carried with me in the direction of the ta- ble, and finding it lodged in the air soon discovered that the table had looking glass between each leg, the magician being careful uever to be caught in the reflection and that there was no reflection of the surroundings. The same way little investigation always proves that the naturalization at a spiritual seance is the medium impersonating-be cause whenever scatter Jacks over the floor spirits can't stand them and the medium is always lame when he or she emerges from the cabinet