The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-15
THE JUGGLERs OF INDIA.
Some of the Wonderful Tricks They
Perform.

mentS OF the American wizard. HIS sole
possessions consist Of tn ee small uas Sets,
ranging in size from bali peck t. a bushel,
a couple OF cloths and a trip ID made Of
three icks, escn two feet long and held to-
gether by string at the top. Three little
wooden dolls vita red cloths tied around
their necks aud each not over
foot long are the gods which
en- BILE him TO do wonderful things. He
has flute in his mouth and a little drum
in his hand. lie is bi4ck-faced aud black
bearded, and his shirt sleeves are pulled up
above his elbows. His only assistant is Il
little turba red boy, who sits beside him,
whom he viii shortly put into a basket not
more than feet square, aud with hum will
perform this noted basket trick of ! dia.
This trick is one Of tina wonderful juggh <
tricks Of the world. TIE boys hands ara
tied and he is put into a net, which is
tied over his Lead and which inc Oses
the whole body 50 that ne apparent
" cannot move He is now crowded into
this basket The la is put down and tiS
scraps are bucxied over it. The juggie
now takes a sword and with few pas es of
these little HndOD dol babes over il and
the mu ttering Of incarnation, as Dreli nj
ma V, thrusts the sword again aud again in
to the basket. There j, a crying as though
so ne one is in terrible pain. II IS the
voice of a child, and the sword comes out
bio dy. You hold you breath, an did you
not know it to be a { lex you would fee ike
bouncing upon the man. After moment the
b lsket becomes still, the juggler makes a
few more passes, unbuc les tle rips, and
shows you tina there is Il thing within it.
He calls, "babal baba' and in the distance
you hear the C ids voice. How the bow
got out of the basket or osc2D d being killed
by the ord and where the blood cane
from | 10 not know. l only know tlat it
was sllght-of-hand performance a.d Won
derfully wei done.
The man o trick is performed with the
three sticks in the sh ,pe of a tripod. The
juggler takes pot Of water and pours it
over a little pot of earth. He thel holds
up mango bulb about the size Of a walnut,
and putting this into the earth he throws q
cloth over tie tripod. He nor tlows upon
bis horn, makes mysterious passes, and
after few moments raises the cloth and
you see the mango tree snrou1ug fort
from the soil. More passe, and more music
follow, and the CT 9TH is pulled down again.
After few moments, during which the
showing of minor tricks goes on, he pull,
out the pot aad the plant has grown about
a foot above it. There is more
watering and more incarnation, and his
final triumph comes in showing you
bush nearly yard nigh, coLtal lag great
leaves. This he will pull up by the root
ana SHOW JOI lub SeGtl AT tn6 DOLJ IN. IL Is
a wonderful trick, and how the man is able
to manipulate the different plants With
nothing else but thin cotton cl ,th to help
him, which, by the way, he allows YOU to
examine, is hard TO cOacolve. He has a
dozen other sleight-of-hand performances
equally as wonderful He puts little she'll
into lis mouth and appears to choke as he
draws out coin after coin and balls of sto @
almost as big around as your fist He splits
Av-. L. II.
miles of string from his stomach, sticks pins
through his tongue without hurting him
self, aud ends the peri with a snake
trick, which is to Inc the most wonderful OF
all.
In doing this snake trick he asks for a
piece of uaper and asks YOU to hold out your
hand. You do 81 a d he PLACES the page"
upon 1t. lie ten begins t. play upon his
pipe and to dart OUT his eyes as tn ugh he
saw something near your nand. His whole
frame becomes transformed an he dances
around like a wizard, play ng all the time
aud keep his eye on your hand. Now
he starts back and points at it. You 10 k
and see nothing and he begins TO play
louder and dance wilder than ever.
Remember his arms are bare tc
the elbow and both of his hands
are upon his pipe. Suddenly
he drops the pipe and continues his dance
Will liCdubhllOuS. l16 pOlIlbS W IIe paper
aga and while you look and see nothing
he clasps his hands down upon it aud pulls
up three great cobraS, which raise their
b oded heads and dart out their fangs il
different directions and squlrm and wriggle
as he holds them up before you. You
| jump back, for the bite of the cobra i,
deadly and am told that the snakes used
! have in some cases not had their fang:
drawn. A juggler was killed week ago il
hyr Pm. rNf,, ii =.
| was using i'll this way, and they are the
! most terrible snakes l hSve ever seen. A.
another performances Of this same Kind /
was present with party of four and we al
| decided to ascertain if we could how this
trick was done | stood upon a chair a I'd
! overlooked the man as he snatChet up the
snakes but | could not see where they
came from, and / only know that he hnI
! them, and That they ere so big that he
crowded them with difficulty into little
! round basket the size of peck measure.
These jugglers are wonderful snake
| charmers. They make the suaNeS do as
! they please, and the snakes they use are Of
the most deadly kind. was told by au
! Eng liShman at Beuares of an incident waic
| hapt ened there short time ago. A juggleI
| was performing with snakes, and a Hindo,
! standing by said that tho faugs of the
snakes had been dra N, and tEat any man
| could do the tricks that he was doing
! The jlggler replied that they were not
/ The Hindoo protested, and i'll spite
! Of the warnings Of the juggler seized one o
! the snakes. 1t was y c bra and 1t sunk its
fanGs into his arm. A moment later the
man dropped to tina ground, saying that he
/ was poisoned, and i'll two hours he wa.
! dead. | am told that the cobra will not
| bite unless he is angry, and that it is oaly
when he is in this condition that his mouth
fills with venem. The jugglers rely upor
/ this fact, and by pettlng the cobras, make
| the 50 docile that they can work with
I tuem without great da ger
saw two women jugCierS at Jeypore
| They were briglt. tai gelU looking gir.s
| one OF whom afi.'Iro5 al ost old enpug,
to be the m)taec pf lae otIer. They dlt
! many woAder;.i things one of which was
| mixing up sanu a .i s0 q d thea putting
! the hand into the ,iiscol rcd fluid, tn "
| brought a handful Of sand which they
| filtered through their fingers as dry a. be
| fore 1t vent in. The Youngest of thess
| girls was perhaps Is She was tall, wei
| formed and tine looking. Sac had bracelets
on arms aud on feet, and her ewes we're a;
| beautiful as those Of a gaZslle. Oue Of
! her tricks was tae lifting Of heavy
CHAIR by her eyelids, the thong
| of which almost makes my eve.
sore. The chair was a heavy mahogany
one, which belonged to the room in VIII. Ct
l was staying. Sac tied two strong st ing,
| TO the Top of this and affixed the ends u
! these strings 20 her eyes by little rOunt
| metal cups, each about the Sizs or a nic eel
! These 0tJed over the eyebals and under the
lids, and she beat over whllo they were St