Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-07
ST. 4 EPIsIIE.
d Wonderful Performance of Bishop the
Mind Reader.

The Wonderful Performance of Bishop the
Mind Reader.
ST. PAUL, MIMI, April 4.-The talk
Of the town this week Is Washington
Irving Bishop, 'the thought reader"
He lie truly q marvel, and accomplished
fests in mind reading that have t.
be seen TO be appreciated. or course
he reads no ones mind in the literal
sense conveyed by the phrase ''mlnd
reading" and people who expect to
be told just what they are thinking
about by having him take bold OF
their hands are disappointed, Some
few who have watched him closely
say that he simcly has the sense OF
touch ab1ormaliy developed, is able
to concentrate his mind on the task
befoie him and that when he leads a
person about, trying To find an object
that has been hidden, he detects by
the almost imperceptlble movement
of the muscles Of the person whom he
is leading whenever he comes near
the hidden object, and finally finds II.
He eve sits still and tells where any.
thing is concealed, but always search
es for IL, holding fast TO the hand OF
some person who knows where 1t IL
located, and s~tipulating that the per-
Fol shall think of nothing else than
the object, and its place of conceal
ment. The me st d Iicult thing that
he did here Is what is known as the
street test" A committee of five
well known men was selected who
concealed a scarf pin in a cushion 10 a
room at the Merchants hotel, and then
waited on Bishop at the Ryan hotel,
telling him they were ready to have
him find II. He seized the hand Of
DR.. Murphy lone Of the committed
and, after thinking a few minutes,
said he was ready. He was securely
blindfolded, a black cap being drawn
over his head, and then, keeping fast
hold of The DOCTORS hand, he went
down stairs, climbed on the drivers
box Of q carriage that stood at the
door, Murphy WIS derricked up along.
side, the committee scrambled inside,
(.or Bishop moves quickly,) and be
drove straight to the Merchants, went
straight ~ the room in which the
scarf-pin was hidden, and brought il
out. He says he can give no explana.
ton as to how il is done, except te
that there is no trickery about 1t. II,
certainly discovered through physica'
contact with the doctor where the pir
was concealed, but whether 1t WI
merely his acute ems of touch tina
enabled him to let. Murphy lead bin
Though he seemed TO lead o
whether the workings of the doctor'i
delicately organized being trickled on
through his fingers into Bishop
nerve channels, Is a mooted question
He 10 really wonderful; he can TAX,
the hand Of a bank cashier, tell hin
to think Of the combination of tb,
safe, and then write II down. He doe
all the cabinet manifestations of spir
ituslism, such as playing guitars
ringing bells, &C., while he Is secured,
/ bound to a chair; these things, howeve
are done by Keller, Hermann, aud
score Of other prestldigitateurs, an,
are msnifestly nothing more thai
tricks. At M Of his performances b
told the committee on the stage TO ar
range q tableau with three men In II
and that he would 90 off the stag
while they did II, then come back an,
reproduce II. They complied, su'
arranged an American duel-two me-
stood back to back, and at q signs
from the third man, walked off fy
PAGES, turned and were ready TO fir,
y Bishop was called 10; he though
d passed around, got the men in wrop
positions thought again, and change
n the men with no better success. A
this point his manager came on an
said that the committee had arrang,
an act, not a tableau. Bishop BEGAN
very mad and said he could not wol
= miracles, and that they must confor
10 to what he asksd, or he could do not