Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-26
JUGGLERS, TRICKS.

They Require Practice as Well as Orig
inal Aptitude.
81 started operations when I was but
years old, playing with the eggs my mother
intended for her buildings" says juggler to
San Francisco Examiner reporter. "Thsse
would throw Ia the air, catching them on a
plate, always with the same result-a smash
This was really my first start. I always
reason that people go home and try to do it
themselves They will then find out how very
difficult an apparently easy trick is You
must commence with small brass balls, max
ing start with a single ball in the left hand.
Every throw leads you to feel the bali better.
1t il obvious why the start Is made with the
left hand. It is the more uncertain Of the
two, apd training alone will make it as sure
and safe as the right Now, I will give you a
rule for throwing knives In the air. II have
half dozen propel one with just sufficient
force to give 1t half turn, another gets a
whole turn, third gets turn and half, q
fourth two turns. / catch them all by the
handle
Zone Of the best Of my many Juggling feats
Is tho egg and cannon ball l catch first one
and then the other on plate. learned by
experience just TO time the arrival of the egg
on the surface Of tho plate. and gather itup
gently white it IL falling. So it really slips
on Of its own accord. 1t is just the same
with tho cannon bail, though it weighs
thirty three pounds.
paul Cinquevalli is doing a pretty trick
now with cigar and holder. After little
preliminary in the way Of throwing the two
about. the holder suddenly drops into his
mouth, the cieer finding its way into the
holder shortly Aftefwsrd. Then with jerk.
Of the head the dgar performs q double
somersault and again falls into Its place in
the holder. But Paul Cinauevali told ms
that the most difficult trick be ever per-
formed took him nearly two years before it
was IN q fit state to be introduced. 1t was
suggested to him ono night at supper. The
guests insisted upon him giving them some
thing new. So he took up his knife and fork
and selected an exceptionally hard potato
He kept the three spinning In the air for
some time, then suddenly cutting the potato
in two, and keeping all going again until, as
finale, he caught oiae-half on the knife and
the other On the fork. 1t was, as he said, an
exceptionally lucky performance, for he had
never attempted it before.
SASorA A&AS w S0eA ySo ~ - ASiAio& hSiSiO
conjur;ng trick saw performed while ON a
voyage from London to Calcutta. The con-
turer was Parsee, whom you might have
taken for respectable servant out Of place,
but who actually was a small landowner who
was travelling for pleasure, and had taken up
oonjuripg as an anusement Spreading
white cloth on the deck Of the steamer, be sat
down, with his back resting against the COM
panicn batch. As soon a. he had settled him
self, he turned to one Of our fellow voyagers
and asked for the loan Of q rupee, which be
requested should be given to one Of the ladies
present. The lady took it. and ct the request
Of the couturer looked at it, and declared it
to be really q rupee The conjurer then told
the lady to hand 1t back to the gentleman
from whom he had borrowed it. The gen.
tleman took il and then followed the follow
ing dialogue;
"Coujurer-Are you sure that Ia rupeei
"Fellow Voyager-YeS
"Conjurer-Close your hand upon it and
hold IL tight Now think of some country
In Europe, but do not tell me your thought
AFTER a moments pause, the gentleman
who held the coin said be had thought Of q
country.
"'Then open your hand. said the juggler.
SEQ what you have got, and tell me if It Is a
coin Of the country you thought Off
st was Eve franc piece. and or friend
had thought OF France. He was going to
hand the coin 10 the Psrsee, but the latter
said, No; pass it 10 another sahih' As I
happened 10 be the nearest. the Ave franc
piece was handed to me- looked closely at
1t. Then, shutting my hands, thought Of
America. When opened il found Next
can dollar. This handed it to the gentleman
on my right, who in turn thought Of Russia,
and on opening bis hand found q Russian
silver piece In place of the Mexican dollar.
The tugglr performed several other tricks
during the voyage, but they were Of COM
momplace kind, and in no way comparable
10 the coin trick. which have never sesn
r1valsds