Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-12-05

then seats the lady on the chair. He then
cover the lady. chair and all with a large
cloth. Then after busying himself stretch
ing the edges Of the cloth to the floor, he
steps back and recites a lot Of gibberish.
The form Of the cloth-covered lady seems
10 be visible all this time. In a moment he
steps to the cloth, jerks 1t away suddenly,
and presto. there is nothing there. The
whole thing is wonderfully my my5tifying Now
for the way the trick is worked according
TO the gossip of the cafes of Paris. The
newspaper has a square flap in the middle
Of it corresponding with trap door in the
stage. Wires are arranged on the inner
surface Of the cloth, with which the woman
is covered. These wires can be arranged to
fill the cloth out somewhat after the shape
Of the woman after she has left it. These
wires fold up fiat, however, when the cloth
is jerked off. As soon as the lady takes her
place on the chair she Immediately fixes the
wires, so as to hold the cloth erect as if she
were still in it, and then slides out through
the flap in the paper and trap door, while
the cOnjurOr holds the edges Of the cloth in
front, under pretense of arranging them.
but really to hide the girls movements
as she goes through the trap. This
done, the wires hold up the cloth
and the audience imagine that they are
still looking at the woman covered with the
cloth, when in reality there is nothing
there. A quick pull jerks off the cloth and
causes the wires to fall fiat, and the trick
is complete. Some of our young husbands
are trying the trick on their mother-in-
law.
Springfield seems TO have almost every
thing rnAar ba Tho lataSt Ia a PrS-
sian class. The weather has been so thor
oughly Russian during the past week that
several of our Iinguists decided that it was
about time to start a Russian class. Pro
fessOr Uhl, Professor Mammes of the High
school, and others, have joined and are
making good progress. DR.. Mueller. broth
er of the late Professor Mueller of Witten-
berg college, is the teacher. Professor Uhl
has already learned to countosky very incel-
witch in Russian, and is amusing his
friends by addressing them in the language.
The language is wonderfully interesting.
and there will be a large class in a short
time.
W. 2. Linn, the western land agent said
q striking thing the other day. Speaking
Of the west he said: The old slaveocrscy
in Missouri has been the great means of re-
tarding the progress in the state, and is the
cause of her being left behind by the other
western states which have always been free.
Emigrants sleep over Missouri and wake
up with the morning sun to settle
in Kansas or Nebraska The same |
cause has retarded the advance Of
Kentucky, which is magnificent state, |
rich in minerals and in all the natural re- |
sources which goes to make up a great |
state. But as l take ii, this undesirable, |
restless, shiftless population will be driven |
out in time, and their places filled with men |
of enterprise and thrift. Such men will
drive out the shiftless race which is still |
found in some parts Of Kentucky, just as
the Indians were driven out Of Kansas"
1t Is stated that Father Berding. Of st.
Joseph's church, recently advised Michael