Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-17
JUGGLERS IN THE EAST.
SOME OF zHE1R WONDERS roID BY
 4 TRAYELER

4 TRATELER.
 The Amaxing Things Told by a
 AiAdoo at Port said-The Japanese
 and His Box and Water Trlck-The
 Mango Nut and It's Wonderful
 Growth.
 ''6o marvellous are the things which have seen that am almost readyto credit anything which l hear of the skill of encountered them at Port Said. The ship was lying at anchor there and a tall, intelligent looking Hindoo, dressed in a loose white gown and turban came on deck. He did SO many things, each more wonderful than the last, that can only remember few. For instance, he 's!a, sGoh four lou eggs, ordinary hens eggs' each of his ears, and in each eye, then stood perfectly straight, holding his head perpendicularly. The eggs re- mained in place as if fastened there. He then took of his turban, piece of very fine white cloth, eight inches in width and about fifteen inches long. He cut this in two, then lighted the ends and allowed them to burn until they were considerably charred. All this time we were standing very close to him, so that his slightest movement could not escape us. His sleeves were rolled up and there was no way of concealing anything in his gown. We'll, he tied the two pieces of his turban together and rolled them up into knot, twisting it again and again. All at once he gave it a jerk and the long white cloth shot across the deck, white and clean, without break or burned spot in it. All this on the open deck with the crowd near enough to touch him.
 "Everywhere we went we saw jugglers, and their tricks, in which skill was the main element. were very numerous and very astonishing. But here is ono by Japanese juggler which shows more than mere skill:
 ''At Yokohama juggler came on deck and built little box by piling sticks one on top of the other in squares. He held 1t up so that we could all see through it. Then he put bottom to it, and immedi- ately thrust his fingers down into it and began to pull out long piece of what looked like smilax. He had no possible way of concealing 1t. He pulled six or seven fathoms of it out-more than he could have wrapped into a small bundle Afterward he performed what is called the water trick.
 "He set a small table on the deck, first placing under 1t piece of paper so that all the legs rested on the paper. He then piled little boxes and tables one on tor of the other. forming a sort of column of which the first table was the base. Each table and box was separated from every other by piece of paper. Then he stood off from the column and lifted his wand. From one corner of the topmost box spouted stream of water. When he raised his wand the stream spouted up higher. When he lowered it the stream was less. Then he made water stream fyOr, &ho <>fk T about the deck with the water flowing from it. His sleeves were rolled up; his hands and arm were bara. In Yokohama, at a theater, saw the same thing on larger scale. The juggler then made streams of water flow from the foreheads of his attendants, from the midst of blazing ball of pitch at the end of his lamps which lighted the stage.
 ''At Singapore, on the deck of the steamer, a Hindoo juggler did the mango trick. He came on board clad in the usual turban and loose white robe, and wearing his legs and feet bare. His tools wero mango nut, about the size of the ordinary sea-bean, a pot of earth, a short stick about as thick as the little finger, and cloth about four feet square. He knecied upon the deck while doing tho trick and we all bent over him. He poured out tho earth and heaped it into a little mound. He next held up the mango nut, then buried it in the little mound of earth. He poured water on it, waved his cloth over it several times, about two inches long stood up fresh and green from the mound. He lifted 1t out and we all examined it and saw that 1t V ;is fastened to the nut
 He buried the nut again, poured on moro water, pressed down the earth with his stick, made the passes with the cloth, and removing it, disclosed 0 sprout about six inches in length. He repeated this process two or three times, and then had stalk about a foot high. He now pressed the cloth over this, stirred the earth at it's base. and again removed the cloth. There stood a mango bush two feet and a half high, with small branches and full-grown leaves, looking as if they had just unfolded. He filled it up and showed us the roots. grown just as the tree had grown. saw this trick again on shore, and watched even closer, but could not see how it was done.
 ''One day at Singapore saw Hindoo boy stretch upon the ground in front of the hotel. The man who was with him spread 8 white sheet over him so that the outlines of his body were plainly to be seen. He then drew knife, and, lifting it high in the air, drove it straight through the sheet, apparently into the body of the boy. Blood spurted out and the body writhed. The man pushed in the knife hard, then drew it out slowly, covered with blood, which he proceeded to wipe of on rag. He then lifted up the sheet, and the boy arose with not a etain of blood on his white garments and not a rent in them anywhere.
 s'I did not go fer into the interior of India but those of the Erooklyn's officers who did saw even more wonderful things than these which will not repeat sec- ond hand. What explanation have |? None, absolutely none.'-Cor. Cincin- natl Commeccial-Gazette.
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