The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-05-07

REMARKABLE JUGGLERY.
Astonishing Feats in the Black Art
Performed by a Snake Charmer in
India.
From the st. Louis Sayinqs.

India.
| From the 81. Louis Sayings.
| While travelling through India, between
Sarat and Nagpore, my body servant one
day informed me that a great juggler
and snake charmer wished to have the
honor Of showing me something of his
skill
| "What can he dor I asked my servant.
| almost everything that is marvellous, ]
have been told" was the answer which |
received.
admit him.
| My servant withdrew and presently re-
! turned with a small withered old man,
about whom saw nothing remarkable ex-
| cept the eyes, which weresSmall, black and
| piercing, and seemed to have lightning i'm
| prisoned in them. | do not know whether
the man could see in the dark like cat,
but there was at times that peculiar fiery
appearance of the balls which is so often
| observable in night providing animals.
He wore white vest, Turkish tr ousers,
| q kind of crimson petticoat worked with
| strange device, turban of many colors, and
| morocco shoes pointed and turned up at the
| toes. His arms and neck were bare, and
with the exception of couple of heavy gold
rings in his ears, he displayed no extraneous
ornaments. His age judge TO be 90, and
| his short moustache was almost white. He
made slow salaam and then appeared to
wait to be addressed
| 'Your name," said in Hindoostanie.
| 'Paunjar, your excellency."
| 81 am told you wish to show me some
| wonders"
| eff your excellency wills"
| swell, what can you doW
He suddenly produced-from where !
did not see and cannot tell-a large ball of
| Irvine, which he appeared to toss in my lap,
keeping hold of one end, so that it unrolled
the whole distance between him and meat
least 10 feet, saying as he did so
"Will your excellency please examine
| what you see!"
| Now, | honestly aver that saw that
ball of Irvine when he threw it as plainly as
l ever saw anything in my life-saw it
| come towards me, saw it unroll and APP
parently drop into my lap, so that brought
| my knees quickly together to catch it, and
yet when put my hand down to take it
and looked down for it, it was not there
nothing was there, and at the same instant
Iperceived the juggler dancing it on the
end of his finger.
| "Pshaw!" said / ''you deceived me by
making me believe that you threw it to-
| wards me-"
Does your Excellency think have it!''
he said. ''ei
| And before could answer saw in place
| of the ball a beautiful large red rose, which
he was balancing by the stem-and yet he
| had not altered his position in the least, nor
scarcely stirred finger.
| | began to be astonished.
| While yet / looked, | saw in his right
hand cup and in his left rose. He
| stepped forward a few feet, laid the rose
down on the ground, and placed the cup
| over it.
Here, it will be obeerved there was no
| machinery to assist him-no table with its
false top, concealed compartments and con
federate, perhaps, to effect change, as we
see similar tricks performed in place fitted
by magician for the purpose-but only
my own quarters in the full light of day,
with myself closely watching every move
| ment within ) feet of him, and my attend
ants grouped around almost as near.
Having covered the rose with a cup
as / would be willing to take my oath, for
/ saw the rose as distinctly as the hollow
vessel, held by the top, went slowly down
over 1.-THE conjuror resumed his former
| place, and said:
| "Will your excellency be kind enough to
| lift the cup and see what is under itP'
OF course, l would have wagered heavy
| sum that the rose was still there for one
thing, because, expecting some trick, | had
| kept my eye on it to the last moment and
was certain there was no possibility of its
being removed after u hand had let go of
the cup at the top.
| complied with the request, stepped for
ward and raised the cup; but instantly
| dropped it with a cry of terror-for there,
| instead OF the rose, was one of the little,
| deadly green serpents of India, cooled up
and ready to spring, with its small, glisten-
| ing eyes fixed intently on mine. Snakes
| of any kind are my horror, and this one
| k1,-- Id h,,E oil
ants, who with cries of alarm enlarged the
circle very rapidly, for they knew its bite
| to be fatal.
mo more such tricks as that conjurer," |
| said, sternly.
at is perfectly harmless, your excel
lency,n grinned the old man, walking up to
| it, lifting it by the neck, putting its head in
his mouth and allowing it to run down his
throat.
shuddered and half believed that the
juggler was possessed of a devil, if not
| devil himself.
He next produced a tube that looked
| like brass, about two feet long and half an
| inch in diameter, and next the bail of Irvine
| az ain.
Where these things came from or went TO
| could not tell. They seemed TO be in
| his hands when he wanted them but never
observed his hands passing near his dress
either when they appeared or disappeared
| When looked for the cup that had lifted
| from the snake it was gone, and yet neither
myself nor any of my attendants had seen
tins wonderful man pick it up. 1t was in
deed jugglery, if not magic, of the most
unquestionable kind.
Through the brass tube the conjurer
passed one end of the twino, which he put
| between his teeth. He then put the tube
between his lips. threw back his head, and
held it perpendicularly, with the ball of
Irvine at the upper end. Then suddenly the
| ball began 10 turn, and turn rapidly, an
! gradually grow smaller, till its entirely dis
appeared, as if the Irvine had run Off on n
reel. What turned it or where it went to
no one could see he juggler thon set the
other end up, and new ball began 10 form
on the top, but apparently ribbon, of half
an inch in width, and different colors
These rolled up as if,on bobbin, till il
formed u wheel two or three inches in di-
ameter, when the performer seemed to toss
ribbon and tube over his shoulder, and that
was the last saw of either.
He next produced what appeared TO be
the same cup had lifted from the snake,
showing something that appeared TO be an
egg, advanced the same as before and
placed tue latter on the ground and the
former over it and again requested me to
raise IT., which declined TO do, fearing
should see another serpent, or something
equally terrifying.
-tNVfi1 onvoua iift tho cttp ~ said he firm