Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-06-06

strictly.
The Governor admitted on an examin-
a.ion of the play bill that there were no
grounds for the imposed fine, and he
charged it to the manager. Wien
asked by the latter what the fine was
for he answered, because there was
row in the house. I must fine somebody
as have promised the public to do
it: therefore it must stand.
l think the fine still remains on the
books as unpaid.
We went TO Matanzas and other pla-
ces. and then sailed to New Orleans,
where we arrived early in December,
having been away three months instead
of one, and giving up the contemplated
tour to Australia, via Japan and China.
At the Captain Generals house In Ha-
vana, the Marquis Sanchez was request.
ed to simulate murder with dagger
upon some Of the distinguished people
! present, and then to hide the weapon
I in some out of the way place, MIR. Bish-
J OPP undertaking to find the dagger and to
repeat the act of murder on The same
+ person and in precisely the same man
ner.
On returning to the room after it was
announced that all was ready, Mr..
Bishop rushed to find the weapon, but
soon stood still, and ON feeling in the
pockets of his subject found the knife
there. Then came the task of repeating
the manner and act of the murder. After
moment or two he turned to his subject
and simulated the stabbing him in the
breast. This experiment was consid
cred perfect success, considering that
the subject violated the condition by
first committing suicide and then living
long enough and having presence Of
mind enough to conceal the weapon in
his own pocket.
Many people called toask him to visit
the sick, thinking he could clairyoyant-
~ diagnose the disease. The rules
which apply 10 hypnotism apply in his
case. BY being blindfolded he half
hypnotized himself, and thus secured
impressions of other peoples mind,
allowing the subject to be for the time
being the hypnotizer. There is also
good deal OF involuntary muscle read
ing, which is perhaps as wonderful as
mind reading in its way, and undoubt-
edly good deal of clairvoyance, which
is not SO rare gift His experience for
fifteen years in public had made him
wonderfully clever in his line of bust
ness, and he rarely failed to produce
the desired results III he failed with
sionable or tractable, and the audience
was usually satisfied with the result,
while it was mystitied by the manner in
which it was accomplished. His was a
clever combination of several powers.
He advertised IN San Francisco that he
would give an explanation of his cabi- [
net performance. But the explanation
viz: that while his hands were tied
firmly behind him he dislocated his 4
shoulder, so rs to allow him to work {
with his right hand at his left side-was I
always as unsatisfactory to everybody in .
the audience as it is to me, his accused
confederate. He had these powers or
faculties even when boy at school. He
was at the Jesuit college at Fordham,
near New York. and he related that he
never even looked at or studied his les
sons, but with one of his teachers he
could always recite them perfectly, an
swering all questions, while with another
teacher he was as ignorant of the lesson
during recitation as he was before
Once with me he was very anxious to
learn the real name of mutual
/ told him / knew it,
aud if he wanted to know it also he
could easily find it out by reading it in
my mind. He paced up and down the
room, clutching convulsively at his
luxuriant hair, and at last acknowledged
his inability to read it when he was not
blindfoldcd and in an abnormal condi-
ton. ] do not believe he could ever
have discovered it unless / gave it to
him unconsciously through muscle read
ing, he being before blackboard, as he
read other names at times.
Bishop has often been accused of
being addicted to the use of alcoholic
but such accusations are I'M
just, though perhaps not unfounded.
In fact, / don't believe it was possible
for any one to make him drunk. He
at his entertainments, drank
an entire bottle of wine of cocoa, one
wineglass of which is usually considered
a sufficiently strong dose, and it was
how his delicate organiza-
ton could resist such terrible strains rs
he subjected it to. He appeared on the
stage like delicate boy, twenty years
IF age, although forty-two wears had
oiled past him. His hands were so
small that he could slip off any hand
cuffs ever made for criminals. His
strength, as shown by the
powerful biceps of his arm, was quite
In Vera Graz, Mexico, they have at
he cafes a liquor called tel1ila, which is
| distillation of the well-known pulque,
made from the milk or juice of the
,actus plant, so abundant in Mexico.
This tekila is about as palatable as /.
Iquafortis would be, and is never taken
Without first filling the mouth with salt.
)ne glass was enough for me for the
est of my life, while Bishop took
welve glasses in my presence at one
lifting, and it hardly dazed him, !
Though no one could take that amount
f pure spirits or half dozen bottles of
he weakest champagne even, and re- :
lain in the same quiet normal state
rhich nature intends human l,a;rrrs e. |