Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-05-03
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b ~ Il oaa ID es Robsit Hou.
1 din. the tather 81 90 ma lived
I'm Paris hill ) century ago. Perhaps no
ono conld compare With him is celebrity,
lexcepting the orig iiinial Hermann ~ 10
L died at Garlsbaa d couple 81 years ago.
] ard from hom the Herr al who II
present peranl b,ll America took his
name and learned what Us know The
I present Hermann was know,r. as Neu.
man, and was ID aSsi slant 10 his greater
pr0totype. He waa always remarkable
| for one tlsing. and that 81 his very great
dexterity in|2 IL 81 hand tricka. To
day there Is nobody that can compare
With him II this line. 81 work, what d
known q aiming, IN fact any thing
that can be done with the hands alone,
excepting q deaf mute who travels
through the chaaper museums, and who
Is said to have even far greater ability ii
| this line, hut without the gift of express
/ ing Limself.
TEE FLYING BIRD CAGE.
f Hermann, however, has never been
an inventor. He finds Ills tricks ready
made for him abroad and buys their se-
cret AS "a result he is compelled to
travel around with q vast paraphernalia
that the old 1lagicians would have looked
upon with great contempt. e Ia fact, the
tendency Of modern magic has been the
elaboration Of the clnnb .some, and
Hermann needs q whole roomful 81 fur
| nitlre to carry out one Of his Illusions.
The brightest mind III magic At the
present day Is . prestidi gitateur named
| De: Kolta. He holds forth ia Paris, and,
being almost agentlem Of leisure, only
appears about three nights a week. He
has made all the most important Of mod
feen inventions in magic. The one that
brought him hrss into prominence Ia the
line of invention was the flying bird
cage, which il now SO familiar that it
can be bought In magic stores for a few
dollars, but it made great sensation at
the time. Kellar was the first to buy it
from De Kolta, end took the trick to
Australia, where he made soma $40, 600
out Of it. He only paid $500,
Two or three seasons ago: in New York
the Vanishing Lady was accepted as a
very remarkable novelty. This was also
an invention Of Do Koltais. During the
| past year another Of his inventions, the
Cocoon, has been given in New York
both BY Kellar and By Hermann.
But the one that is now most familiar
and surprising De Kolta first Brought out
two years ago. We have seen it with
Hermann under the name Of Black Art,
and with Kellar under the namo of ORR
entail Occultisn. The trick is precisely
the same with them both, andis merely
m illusion Of blackness. i The whole
stage is draped in the blacklist Of black;
tho magician, be it Kellar OF Hermann,
is completely robed in white, so that he
stands out clearly III thes Gloom surround
ing him. Then ne orders various objects
to appear, a cup, a sword, q table, a
chair. a IS, IN - y. = =
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These things seem to suddenly start
into being, and yet the device is Of the
simplest. Tho objects in, question are
concealed behind a black cloth until the
order for them to appear is suddenly
given. The cloth concealing them is
dropped, and they seem to have come
out OF chaos. In the same manner Mrs.
Hermann or Mrs. Kellar stands on the
stage, draped II white, but holding up a
black cloth between herself and the au-
dience. Al tfeword Of: the magician she
drops the cloth and stands revealed. To
the uninitiatsd the trick is most pllzzling.
] Il is the sane way that the head de-
tached from the trunk appears to be car
/ ricd around the stage. Tho illusioR is
that the trunk IS closed III black, and
standing against the blackness Of the
scene. cannot be distingu ished; the head
being white, alone appears. 1,ais is Per
haps the cleverest Of al De Koita' s in.
| ventions. s. III s 2:s
|, r OF mechanical tricks Maskelyne, OF
London, and Kellar are the most noted
Inventors. Psychic. or: the hand that taps
on q glass table in response to the ma.
gician's command, is an invention OF
Kellar, and is simply q piece Of very deli
cate and intricate machinery. It is very
I similar to the Clio Of Maskelyne. and
botl have family resemblance to Kel.
lars chess board, originally invented by
Maskelyne. Magicians generally give
the palm to Kellar for all tricksof a
4 mathematical kind. He has q marvel.
ousiy quick mind in this respect, and
the most abstrllse problems be can solve
in q few seconds apparently, Of course,
allowing it to be done BY some mechani:
cal figure. rs. s' ,t3s \ sSs Ia Il
Whether an this comes within the ex-
act domain OF magic does not so much
matter as that such tricks are now ae.
cepted in magical entertainments and
vast moss e1sticyyed s,an tho old pistol,
card and rabbit tricks to which some
magicians still adhere tricks that neces
state the use 81 d confederate, and
i which IRE, therefore, Of little account
and ct which even locals laugh. s3s5
The future Of magic is hard to fore.
tell Everything u the sleigh Of hand
Way has becoms familiar, and outside d
d De Kolta there Is no inventor u any,
thing new. The result is that. reaen1
sprestil itatenrs, such as Il hermann, arr
l, compelled to add TO their own some sor1
i Of variety entertainment 70 I'LL out The
i evening. Even kkeeilas had to go back "a
1.-the Old Indian basket trick for q novelty,
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