San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-13
JUGGLERS IN THE EAST.
TRICKS THAT eEHOlDERS WILL
NOT TRY TO EXPLAIN.


Naval Oficer-Making a Mungo Busl
Grow In a Few Minutes on the yesseI's
Deck-The Basket Trick outdone.
So marvellous are the things which ! have
seen that am almost ready to credit any
thing which hear of the skill of eastern jug
glers. In our trip we first 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 took four
eggs, ordinary hens eggs, which we all ex-
amined. He put one in each of his ears, and
one in each eye, then stood perfectly straight,
holding his head perpendicularly. The eggs
remained in place as if fastened there. He
then took off his turban, piece of very fine
white CLOTH eight inches in width and about
fifteen feet long. He cut this in two, then
lighted the ends and allowed them to burn
until they were considerably charred. AD
this time we were standing very close to him,
so that his slightest movement could not
escape u.s. His sleeves were rolled up and
there was no way of concealing anything in
his gown. Well, 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 a burned spot in it. AL
this on the open deck with the crowd near
enough to touch him
THE JAPANESE JUGGLER.
Everywhere we went we saw jugglers, and
their tricks, in which skill was their main ele
ment, were very numerous and very astonish
ing. But here 10 one by a japanese juggler
which shows more than mere skill:
At Yokohama iuggler came on deck and
built little box by piling sticks one on top
of the other in squares. He held it up 80 that
we could all see through it. Then he put a
bottom to it, and Immediately 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 it. 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 it piece of paper SO that all
the legs rested on the paper He then piled
hVIie oOAeS anu IdoleS oLe on Top OF the OUner,
forming 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 of from the column
and lifted his wand From one corner of the
topmost box spOuted a 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 from
the end of the wand, al( walked about the
deck with the water flowing from it, His
sleeves were rolled up; Lis hands and arms
were bare At Yokohama, at theatre, Isaw
the same thing on a larger scale. The juggler
then made streams of water flow from the |
foreheads of his attendants, from the midst of
a blazing ball of pitch at the end of his wand, |
and finally from the fames@to two lamps |
which lighted the stage.