Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1891-01-01
WHAT is IT?
THE MARVELLOUS POWER EXHIBITED
Bf MRS. ANNIE ABBOTT.
She Lifts Half-Dozen Men by the Touch
of Her Hand, and Does Other
Strange Things.

The exhibition given by Mrs. Annie Alb
bott at Pythian Hall last evening was truly
wonderful, and tie audience were both
pleased and mystified. The lady styles
herself "The Human Magnet" and the
term comes nearer to defining her peculiar
powers than any other that could be en-
ployed. Her feats are simply marvellous.
She stands before her audience upon q
common wooden platform. and there is not
the least sign or attempt at deception.
In fact. the first thing done last night by
the management was to call upon the plat
form Drs. Glow and Dixon, J. w. Wilson,
Jud G. Brusie, Elwood Bruner, E. A.
Bower, c. K. Dougherty, and one or two
other well-known Sacramento gentlemen.
They took seats and waited until DR.. Dixon
had found out that the temperature Of the
woman was 92o. This occasioned some
surprise. as the normal temperature aver
ages 9Slo.
In appearance, Mrs. Abbott is rather
giriish. She is blonde, quite pretty and
slightly built, although her arms are mus
cular. The audience was a good natured
one, and was kept IL an almost continuous
roar of laughter during the exhibition.
At the outset of the entertainment one of
the gentlemen above.nam was called
forward and asked to hold chair in his
arms. By simply touching the chair with
both hands, Mrs. Abbott caused the party
holding it to stagger and totter ucul he
reeled over into corner of the stage
She next lifted the chair from the floor
by simply pressing both hands against it,
To show that she WAS not grasping it, she
allowed several of the gentlemen 10 try to
pull it away, but, jerk and yank as they
would, they could not take it from her.
The most comical part of the perform
ance, however, was witnessed when Messrs.
Brusie, Wilson, Bruner, Doherty aud
Bovyer Were piled upon one chair and
lifted easily by the little lady To prove
to the audience that she brought no physi-
cal power or pressure to bear, she allowed
the doc ors to place. their hands between
her palms and the chair, ard by simply
touching their hands lightly she raised the
whole weight, probably 500 pounds.
Then she placed a billiard cue in the
palm of her hands, and four men could
not take it away. Neither could they force
her backward when she stood balancing on
one heel. Five gentlemen could not lift
vain to raise boy from the floor while she
touched the palms of the youngsters
hands
Every one of her feats were phenomenal,
and the power she displayed could not be
explained. DIR. Dixon thought at first that |
she might have rendered herself in SUBJ |
conscious condition by separating the phys |
ical from the will power, or placing her
self in the same condition as one crazed, |
but when he saw that half.dozen men
could not lift her from the floor he aban- |
doned his theory. When she wished she |
would permit any one of the gentlemen to |
lift her, but on the second attempt she |
would exert her will, and the attempt to |
raise her would fail.
Mrs. Abbott appears tonight, tomorrow |
night and on Saturday night. a matinee |
will be given on Saturday.