Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-02

he declares that repulsion only seems to re-
SUIT because there is a stronger attraction IN
another direction-that everything fol-
lows the line of the strongest az
traction. As an illustration he takes .
needle lying upon table. There is
the attraction of gravitation that keeps 1t
there, Hold magnet above the needle
and the needle leaves the table and goes to
the magnet. There is no more repulsion now
between the table and the needle than before,
out 1t simply follows the line Of strongest
attraction and thus sometimes causes
seeming repulsion. Hence they lay down
the general law that there is no repulsion
By the way, those who stand on the
higher plane Of the spiritual philosophy
recognize nothing but general laws from the
universe to the atom.
Prof. Chauncey Palmer, of Titusville,
gave most wonderful exhibition of mind
reading at Library Hall last night, and sue
cessfully performed the feat that made
Washington Irving Bishop subject for the
surgeons knife, if indeed it did not of it
self take his life. Mr.. Palmer on begin
ming his tests asked committee of ten to
be appointed from the audience to see that
all the tests were put beyond the province
OF fraud. After the selection of the com
mlttee the Chairman announced that the
first test would be what he calls the flower
test
A MIND READING FEAT.
Mr.. Palmer was taken from the room,
and then members Of the committee each
wrote the name of q lady to whom he
wished him to deliver a boquet. AS the
name was written it was sealed in an en-
velope Mr.. Palmer was then brought in
and blindfolded. One of the gentlemen
who had written name was then asked to
come forward. Mr.. P. took the mans right
hand in his left and then nervopsly passed
his right hand over the gentleman's face
down over the back of his head and neck
and left arm and then started off through
the room, using the man as his guide. Re-
gardless Of chairs, benches or anything else
he did not stop until he had placed the
boquet in a lady's hand. The other two
were delivered in like manner, and
He was again taken to the vestibule, and
this time was to find a pin secreted by some
member of the committee. Mrs. DR.. Arm
strong, of Buffalo, was chosen to secrete the
pin, and she stuck it in the table on the
platform, where the audience might see
when it was found. The mind reader was
again brought in and blindfolded, and, tax
ing Mrs. Armstrong; hand, led her by cir
cuitous route to where the pin was and
found it.
He proposed next to allow three OF four
articles to be selected from the audience
and tied in handkerchief and the hand
the handkerchief and then deliver the diff
ferent articles to the persons to whom they
belonged. Taking the one who hid the
as his guide he found it easily
and then through those who had collected
the articles he gave them to their owners.
HUNTING FOR A MURDERER
, The next feat he terms the murder test.
A gentleman takes knife, makes feint of
stabbing some one and then conceals the
knife. Mr.. Palmer is to find the knife and
the person who was in imagination stabbed
with it. Your correspondent was selected
to do the stabbing act He took the knife
and made feint at Mr.. Fred Nichols,
leader of the Northwestern Orchestra.
Some of the audience thought MI. Nichols
had not been stabbed sufficiently and should
be "stuck" little more definitely. The
man with the knife then took it, and in
stead Of making a second attack on Mr..
Nichols gave Signor G. Green, the material
izing medium, q stab at the back OF the
neck, and then laid the knife upon win
dow sash at the back of the hall.
Mr. Palmer found the knife after O long
search, and then in turn picked out the gen.
men who had been the victims of the stab
bing, in their order.
I The last test was the selection Of word
from book THAT lay on the table. he re-
quested that the book be left open in order
that he might not spend time in looking for
the page. One of the committee selected
o word, wrote it on slip of paper and
handed it to Mrs. Judge Tlden. Mr.. Pal
mer ran his finger nervously over the
page, then broke piece Of cotton thread
and giving the gentleman who selected the |
word one end of it took the other end and a
piece of crayon in his right hand. Turning |
his face to the blackboard he asked the |
gentleman to tighten the string and think Of |
The first letter Of the word. The letters |
came slowly until they made the word Tom,
which Mrs. Tilden found to be the word |
handed her.
The tests were genuine beyond all posi- |
oility of doubt, and highly satisfactory. Mr.. |
Palmer says he does not understand what |
he power is; that he seems when looking |
'or person or article to feel that there is |
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