The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-01

get on well with all sorts of people. Prof
anderson came in 1851, but it wasn't till old
Hermann came along about ten years later
that America really saw magic. Lord,
what wonder Hermann wasl The person
you know of that name, young fellow, is
the nephew of the great original simon
pure Hermann. The nephew is very pretty
tr1ckster, but he wouldn't be visible to the
naked eye alongside his uncle. The Her
mann was born in Hanover in 1891, but he
was educatedin Paris. He stayed here two
years when he first came back in '67, but he
was good enough to find room for his gifts
most OF the time in Europe. Most people
have the idea that he has been dead long
time, but as fact he only departed this life
last year. He had been living in princely
retirement on the Continent for years"
Hermann might have been very fine
actor. He was handsome and had the
dramatic touch, and idea of the proper eff
feet in everything he did. His ease and
nonchalance at times, his air of half awed,
solemn expectation at others, his naive
surprise yet again were far more charming
in him than any of his imitators have been
allie to assume.
One of his brilliant experiences was with
the Turkish Sultan. At the close of his
first performance before him that potentate
was so fascinated, for Hermann was an &C
comphshed courtier as well as a juggler,
that he paid him the high honor of an in
vitation to accompany him in his royal
barge on trip on the Bosphorus. During
the row Hermann asked the Sultan to let
him look at his watch, a magnificent chro
nometer in a 1eweled case. The watch was
courteOusly handed him, and without a
moments hesitation he threw it overheard.
Disregarding the startled Sultan's express
sions, Hermann told one of the rowers to
bait the hook of fishing line he saw lying
at the bottom of the boat and to throw it
overheard. 1t had scarcely sunk in the
water before the man said that he had a
bite and Topping fish was landed. Still
Acting under Hermann's command the finny
prize was cut open and in its stomach vas
found the Sultan's watch still ticking and
showing the correct tine. OF course this
trick was In the very A B c Of lsgerdemain
and only depended on dexterity, but with
such dexterity as Hermann effects could be
produced that no machinery could rival
DR.. Lynn is one Of the best conjurers
we have had of late years. He rose to this
distinction from the comparatively humble
position of an officer in her majesty's
navy. His change of career was owing TO
the fact that he was sick all the time at sea,
and he thought an habitually sick naval
officer was not ornamental.
He was Artemus Wards business mana
ger for years, and the two were warm
friends. l don't know just where Lynn is
now, but it is only a few years since he ap-
peared at Bunnell's Museum when that
great institution was still adjoining Broad
way near Eighth or Ninth street. He there
did his famous trick of ''palengenesis," or
the apparent ACKNOWLEDGMENT of a human be-
ing, an optical delusion adopted from one of
the old Hindoo tricks. Lynn did it better
than any Indian juggler l ever saw. and
I've seen what was supposed to be the best, "
said the old amateur.
There has been lots of exaggeration
about the Indian juggler," he went on
''The Orientals are not 80 clever as the Oc-
cidentals there any more than they are in
machinery. The vanishing lady that we
had in all the theaters two or three years
ago was better done in some, not all of
them, and gave more startling effect than
the best jugger in India could produce. He
hasn't the apparatus, and he can't do so well
without it as we can with it,"