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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
HINDOO WIZARD ARTS.
Remarkable Tricks Shown Be-
fore the GWikwar of BarOda.

A few months ago party of English
officers paid visit to the court of the
strange potentate who styles himself
the Gwikwar, or "Chief Cowboy" of
Baroda, though the population of his
principally amounts to 10000 and his
revenue spent mainly on pets of some
sort or other to more than S1,00O,00O
says the Philadelphia Times.
As usual. the hospitable prince pre-
vailed on his visitors to inspect all the
principal departments OF his menagerie,
and an English physician, who had vol
unteered the function of interpreter,
introduced them by turn to ''Chief
Elephant Tamer," a ''Chief Tiger Catch
er," Captain of WrestlerS," "Gen-
eral Monkey Trainer" and a private
Court Wizard" or master juggler.
I'm Europe this gentleman would
probably describe himself as professor
of legerdemain," remarked the doctor,
s'but my friend Boseo used to say that
the two things most needed for people
of his profession are quick hand and
ready tongue. and our BarOda wizard is
deliberately slow in his movements and
generally holds his tongue altogether.
| should prefer to call him master of
black arts, and suspect that most of his
tricks are founded on chemical trade
secrets"
The forenoon was taken up with
beast fights, and after dinner the wiz
ard tried in vain to aStOnish the guests
of his master by taking live chickens
from basket of apparently boiled eggs
They had seen worse things in the
London poultry markets and declined
] to marvel even when some of the eggs
exploded with an audible noise ON be-
ing tossed up high in the air.
But toward evening the master of
trade secrets substituted small glass
like balls for eggs, and without any APP
, parent effort contrived to toss some of
them out of sight. The little glass
globes, known as "Prince Rupert'S
Drops" burst into fragments if the
taperipg handle is broken off at the end,
! but in this case there was no visible or
| audible sign of an explosion The balls
were seen to fly up at fair rate of
speed to height of some sixty feet
above the esplanade of the Gwikwar
palace, and then, with few exceptions,
continued to soar up somewhat more
slowly, till they seemed to melt away
| into empty air.
The juggier then produced sort of
large, forked ran, and stepping down
into shady parade ground in front of
| the esplanade, began to beat up whirls
of dry leaves. With every stroke of his
fan the leaves rose higher, and at last
formed detached pillars, revolving at a
rapid rate and following the conjurer
up and down the grove like dancing
Wlll-o'-the-whisps, though he had ceased
to agltate his fan and merely walked
slowly backward, apparently directing
the rustling whirls by swaying move
| ment of his head.
On his return to the piazza he took a
seat on low bench, and for few mlD-
utes seemed to toy with handful of
small acorns. Another native, ap-
parently an assistant of the chief con-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
Interesting Dissertation Upon of Hndoo WHARF
Art, With Strange Feats of the Most Surprising
Legerdemain in India.
Remarkable Tricks Shown Before the GWkwar OF Baroda
Live Chickens From Boiled Eggs and Dancing
Leaves From Acorns

it up. What costume is best? Well, l
wear tights underneath my skirts. be-
cause tine body has more freedom, and L
don't wear corSets while dancing, be-
cause don't like them"
Then Miss Amelia Glover, we'll known
to fame and young men, was visited.
''There is no more danger in dancing
and high kicking than there is in walk
ing" said Miss Glover: knowingly. Il
nave danced ever since-I was a little
tot, and always wait anXi0usly for my
part. 1t Is ever so much fun. Every
day practice one hour; that is, | go
through the side movements. which
means Kicking my legs apart sidewise.
This keeps me in practice, and gives
me perfect health. What do l wear?
Well, [ don't wear corsets, for one
thing. | wear quite long skirts, and
long stockings held up by plain. old
fashioned garterS. / never feel tired
after dancing, but little out of breath.
1t is 40 effort at all for me TO kick high.
and it is real fun. In order to dance
and kick without danger one must CON-
mence young. At what age? Well-as
young as Mr.. Gerry will allow one. l
have to go on the stage now to kick land
you will see, if You watch me and the
spectators closely, that it does not hurt
either of us"
The Days, at the Madison Square
theater, do not think there is any danger
in dancing or high kicking.
I'VE have never had any accidents"
said Marguerite, the elder of the sisters,
NOR do we fear any. We both weal
corsets and carriers. Our skirts each
contain $50 yards of lace. We practice
one hour day, generally early in the
morning. High kicking comes by long
practice, and is easy when you have
learned how" The above information
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

look at her!" walled the Snowman as |
led her i'll. Thirty minutes ago She
was the bossest Circassian girl ever ex-
hibited in this country under canvass.
She was right from Circassia, where
they sell 'em for $1,000 apiece, but what
is she now? Take her away before my
heart Is brokep!"
The boys found the boa constructor.
He was quarter of mile away fl a
col0red mans garden. He was dead.
lie had been dead a great many years.
case, and there was sign reading.
"Do not agitate the implacable reptile,
who can crush an OK in two minutes
They came dragging the stuffed skin
behind them, and as the Snowman
and noticed that the head was was
missing, his grief owe rcame Hun
and he had to sit down on q wagon
wheel. While some of us were trying
to console him by figuring out how he
could cut the bOacOnstrictor up and
make three or four anacondas of the
pieces, cOlored man brought in the
mernaid-"the only genuine specimen
ever shown Oh the American conti-
nent." She had been found in o cottont
field. She was stone dead. She seemed
to have been smiling at some joke the
living skeleton had got off on the fat
woman just as the cyclone came into
town. for there wasia grin of pleasure
on the crevice supposed to represent her
mouth. She had died happy, but when
the negtO laid her down before the
Snowman In four chunks and three
pieces and one spinster, the
poor man turned the face away
and was undone. Nothing else
could be found. We hunted all that
afternoon for the guyasticutus and the
cunderango, but they had probably
escaped to the woods to howl for gore lis
the darkness fell, and become living ter
rors until hunted down by determined
men. | offered to collect band and
search the county for the ossified man.
whose bones had been turned to chalk
for the last twenty eight years, and the
sheriff said he'd raise posse and go out
and look for the wax figure OF Gen.
Jackson licking the British at New Or
leans, but the Snowman said il was no
use. He had been crushed to earth,
and, though he had 40 pounds of fat
woman and a pretty fair living skeIetan
to start life anew, lie could not do the
phoenix act for Shucks.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24
WHAT A CYCLONE DID.
1t Took Four Hundred Pounds
Weight From Fat Woman.

A StrOlling Snowman had set up his
tent near the railroad depot in North
Carolina town. All along the front Of
the tent were pictures of fat women,
ossified men Demonstrators, living
skeletons, mermaids and other choice
spring and summer fabrics, and bust
ness promised to be good. Just before
noon QueeI-loOking cloud came up in
the southwest. There was roar and
growl and a young cyclone came tearing
along. 1t blew down an old mill and a
barn or two and then struck the tent.
When it passed on there wasn't any
tent left. There wasn't any Snowman
there. There wasn't the slightest trace
of fat woman, a living skeleton. a Cir
casSian girl or the only guyasticutus
ever born in captivity in North Ameri-
ca. The site was swept bare.
A crowd of us went down to the hotel
as SOON as it was known that calamity
had occurred, and we began searching,
We found the proprietor ten rods away,
between two saw-iogs. He wasn't much
hurt, and as Soon as he had taken nip
of whisky he was ready to direct the
search after his curiosities. The fat
woman, who was down on the bills as
weighing 800 pounds, was found in
cOrn-field. across the railroad track She
was cut and bruised, but no bones were
broken. As she was brought in the
Snowman could hardly restrain his
tears.
Look at herly he said to me as he
threw up both hands. Forty minutes
ago that woman weighed close OH to 500
pounds, and was the Jim Dandiest fat
woman in the world. She's lost over
half her weight and has aged ten years!
If she hasn't had 400 pounds blOWed
right out of her then I'm no exhibitor of
living wonders!"
A few minutes later party found the
living skeleton down in a gravel pit be-
hind the cotton factory. He had escaped
any serious injury and was as cheerful
as could be expected of handful of
bones under the circumstances. While
he was being brought in under mans
arm he declared that he was hungry for
the first time in twent years, and when
the Snowman heard of il his hands went
up again, and he cried out:
tits just my consumed luck. He'll
be hollerin' for pork and beans in less'n
an hour. and afore the week is out he'll
gain twenty pounds and won't be Iiv-
ing skeleton no more. Gentlemen. |
haven't wept in over forty years, but
Eve got to weep nOwi"
The Circassian girl had been run
down the road and lifted over fence
into an orchard. had the distinguished
honor of escorting her back. She had
lost her CircaSSian wig and other articles
necessary to become Circassian
beauty, and she was mad from head to
foot. She had never been handled that
way, and it wasn't in the contract.
"Great snakes; but look at her! Jest
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

ventilated only by doors opening
into other rooms, cannot under
any circumstances be a healthy Sleep
ing room. A sleeping room needs
abundance of light as disinfectant of
impurities in the air, just as it needs
abundance Of air. One of the greatest
mistakes made in the furnishing of a
bedroom is to clutter the room up with
unnecessary furniture.
We are doing away with the ornate
furniture which characterized the old.
fashioned bedrooms. Massive carved.
wooden bedsteads are giving place to
the simple and more graceful bedsteadS
of brass. The ''shut-up" washstand. a
piece of furniture in which there is
everything to condemn, because it was
pretentions and ill-suited to its purpose,
Is passing ont of use. The simple metal
English washstand is being generally
used. 1t is enameled and no amount of
water can injure it. 1t requires no
elaboration of toilet covers to protect it,
like washstand of natural wood. 1t
aired, and which are very apt to be in
disorder. 1t is simplicity itself.
The Old-faShiOned bureau is sue
ceeded in many of our rooms by Il chest
of drawers, and a low, comfortable
dressing table, but, as this necessitates'
the use of two pieces of furniture in
place Of one, the bureau is often re-
tanned, and is the only piece of elab
orately carved furniture allowable in a
strictly fashionable bedroom. The
cheval glass, in which the full length of
the figure may be seen, is luxurious
but not necessary part of the furni-
ture. A few chairs, with caned seats,
but no upholstered ones, low lounge,
every piece of which may be taken apart
and brushed, and small bedside table.
are all the other pieces of furniture nee
essary for the most deliberately fur
nisbed bedroom.
A superabundance of draperies is out
of place in the bed chamber. The only
draperies allowed at the window are
light sash curtains of sheer muslin or
lace, or India silk, which may be easily
Numbered. The bed tester is the only
drapery which is so graceful that some
concession should be allowed to it. A
great many of the new brass bedsteads
have half-teSter, and so long as this is
covered with material that is easily
Numbered, and is kept eXQuisitely fresh
and clean, it is an ornament to the bed
stead, and so pretty that one would be
loath to give it up. The pillow shams,
supported by high ornamental pillows
at the back, are not as often seen now
as a round bolster of hair, which is COW
cred by the upholster with some ma
terial to match the cOunterpane.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

was no danger. kept on dancing. but
my legs began TO pain me. The next
night when l danced before the audi
ence l was in such pain that l nearly
tainted. How l got home l never
knew. When the doctor examined me
he found that my legs were swollen
and on my left thigh on the inside there
was black and blue spot as big as my
hand. He said that my slipping had
burst one of the largest blood vessels in
my body. and Unjust keep quiet until
the blood was all absorbed.
No, have never had an accident
before. and this would not have oc-
cured except for the slippery cloth.
There is not the slightest danger in high
kicking. It's just as easy as can be.
Just place my foot SO," and Miss CahilI
raised her left foot few inches, "then
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

SeSsels are all right, too, guess" Then
she danced little can-can around the
room to show the reporter that she was
Feally alive.
Il am going to commence dancing
again Monday. and shall kick higher
than ever. This is the way the accident
occurred. We were practicing at Herr
mann's theater. The stage was COW
cred with kind of green cloth, which
was quite slippery. Suddenly slipped
little. Almost Immediately l felt a
sharp pain in my left leg. 1t continued,
and in few minutes made an eXami-
nation. On the under side of the leg,
back of the knee. was black spot
about the size of a quarter. My
physician examined it and said there
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

rhe bursting of a blood-vessel by the
pretty soubrette and high-kicking artist.
Miss Cahill, member of the Miss
Helyett" company, while trying to
stand on her head and feet at the same
time. has aroused new interest in high
kicking. says the New York World.
In order TO find out what dangers con-
front artists who use their feet TO draw
imaginary pictures in the air. World
reporter and artist interviewed several
of the most prominent higl-kickers now
dancing at New York theaterS.
Miss Cahill. the injured high-kicklng
lady, lives at No. 1872 Fulton street,
Brooklyn. Yesterday afternoon she
said: Il am all right, and my blood
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

I do sou There was rustling of gar
ments, and tambOurine suspended
eighteen inches over Miss Cahill's head
began to jingle.
II don't practice very much unless
there is something new to learn. Then
work hard. am not properly high
kicker, but drifted into the business. l
like dancing, though, and shall not give
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

is most important and satisfying. but
for those who like to go beneath the
surface picture is provided, drawn
under the scientific eyes of doctor,
which certainly goes as far beneath the
surface as anything can. 1t shows a
lady's skeleton doing the featS which
win fame for so many flesh-and- blood
young ladies, and allows every citizen
to judge for himself what kind of treat.
ment young woman's bony carpenter
work gets as she delights the playgoers'
pVpS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-24

HE CARE Of bed
Dom S necessarily
implies proper ven
tilation. Abundance
of air and abundance
of sunlight are nee
essary to insure
wholesome qualities
in any living room.
Yet it Is not an I'M
common thing to find
the air Of the bed
room close and the
room itself so sit
that sunshine
! S impossible, says
the New York Trib-
une. An inside room,
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New York CITY, Dec. 20, 1890.

Dining Cars on Winnipeg and -
Pacific Coast Trains. Ly. Ar
Manitoba and Pacific Express
daily for Crookston, Grand
Forks Grafton. Winnipeg, Far
go. Bismarck, Livingston, Boze
man. Helena. Butte, Missoula,
Spokane, Seattle Tacoma, Olym AIS I12:45
pia aud Portland u. m. p. m.
Dakota Express, daily, for Fergus
Falls. Wahpeton. Moorhead. 500 7:0j
Fargo and Jamestown. pm. am
Brainerd Express, daily except
Sundays for Anoka, St Cloud,
Little Falls, Brainerd and Far 9:00t0:31
go. .... a m. "a. M.
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GREAT NORTHERN R'Y Line
TICKETS 81 Eiss Hs!: 4. 81 s: ssP'

St EHuI UIIUH Ueput ARkIY6
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bs:& n. m. Fer. Falls. Fargo & G. Forks b6:1O D. m
b8'S0 m Osseo, Clearwater st. Cloud bill IS a %
b3:30 m. Anoka, St Cloud & Willmar bless O. m
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(Willmar, tSioux City, !
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bHuron, Wahpeton, bAb-
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80, bCasselton, Ora ton,
Winnipeg and Pacific
lCoast,
ftAnoka, st. Cloud, saukl
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a7A0 pm. 60, CrookstoD, G. Forks la68s am
Great Falls, Helena,
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--Eastern Minnejota.--I
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Princeton, Anoka.<
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TO CALIFORNIA

chicago, st. Paul & X. City Ry. trains leave
~ union depot S:3J q. m. eX. sunday. 1879 D.
m. daily; arr :50a. m daily. 9:40 p. N. ex Sun
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Chicago, milwaukee, & ST. Paul II
Trains leave st. Paul Union Depot as follows: For
Winona. La Crosse. Milwaukee. Chicago. B. 7a5 L
m. "A 245 IN "A, s:55 p. m: A. g p m, Mason City
st. Louis Kansas City, A, ei5 a M; c. 715 p rn.
Dubuque Rock Island, B, 7:s5 a. m; c. 7:15 p. m.
Aberdeen, Mitchell. A, 6:15 p. m. Calmar. Daven-
port ,s:15 a. m. Austin Way, A, s:15 g. M; A,
4:25 p M. c. IT'S p. IN. Milbank& Way, B, $780,
M; Red Wing & Rochester B. i:40p. IN.
means daily; B, ex. Sunday; q. ex. Saturday
For urther in ormation see Com pany time taolsI
Ticket Offices. 1874 East Third st. anil Union Depto
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Chicago. BURLINGTON & Northern R,iIro,i

Leaves for Chicago, st. Louis and down
river points. T:jO-a. m.; arrives. l:4j D. N.
daily except Sunday.
Leaves for Chicago and st. Louis Z: ID =
m. arrives us q. M. daily.
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THE BEDROOM

Should at All Times Have Plenty
OfLipht and Air.
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HIGH KICKING is HEAL HFUL.
However, Miss Cahll Burst Blood Vessel in Terpsi-
ehorean Sky-Scraper, but Is Now, Happily, All
Right and Clipper Again.

Expressive Lovely Young Women Accompanied
by obliging Skeleton Give Points on
Truly Delsartean Fad.
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Dakota Express does not run west OF Fargo on
Sunday.
Pullman sleepers daily between st. Paul anil
Grand Forks Grafton, Winnipeg, Fergus Falls, Wah-
peton and Fargo. Pullman First-CIass and Tour
ist sleepers and Free Colonist sleepers are runon
through Pacific Mail Trains. C. E. STONE, City
Ticket Agent, 1G2 East Third Street. ST. Paul. G.
T; MCNEIL, City Ticket Agent. 10 NicolIet House
Block. Minneapolis MINI.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-02-04

European airs at appropriate occasions.
For three days in succession the pro-
cessions accompanied the king and prince
to the most sacred of the palace temples
only to listen to the consecrating lectures
of the priests. But on the fourth day,
starting earlier, they filled the palace
yard before noon. As the king and his
son took their seats on raised thrones in
the central facade of the pagoda the
scene was both grand and unique. The
entire space in front was occupied by the
foreign ministers, in full uniform, to-
gether with naval officers and invited
guests, all in full rig.
As the Siamese national anthem pealed
through the crowdhlIpace the king and
prince passed intdWhe pagoda, followed
by the other princes of the blood. The
locks forming the crown princes top
knot were severed with consecrated
shears, and the prince-now no longer
child-was ready for the remaining for
malities.
At the far end of the palace court
yard opposite the pagoda had been con
structed an artificial mountain glittering
with imaginary SHOWS OF Himaphan.
Upon its peaks and ridges were seen
angels and demons; the fabulous tree of
Kalpapruk, bearing gold, silver anc
precious stones; mischievous apes and
grandos, and the evil serpent Maya; and
at the base, as well DIS on its summit,
were peaked pagodas, carved, curtained
and glittering with golded scales. 10
the foot of the mount the prince had to
trudge after his top knot had been shorn
off. In the sacred lake of Anodak he
takes plunge and is carefully dried by
tho venerable head priest. lie is then
arrayed in regal attire and conducted by
Vishun to the top of the hill to be
received by SRA. Here the prince re-
ceiyes the five insignia of royalty-the
sword, the crown, the fan, the slippers
and the white storeyed umbrella.
Then follows the smaller procession
around the mountain, from left to right;
and at length the poor fellow, pale with
fatigue and excitement, is carried back
after his father to the staircase of the
grand palace.
This completes the pageant and cere-
mony of clipping the crown prince top
knot, and as the bands discourse various
airs the spectators withdraw from the
royal grounds. s. Washington Star.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-02-04
THE TOP KNOT IN SIAM.
1T is CUT WHEN A CHILD BE-
COMES OF AGE.
The Ceremony of Its Being Cut From
a Princes Head Described BY an

The Ceremony of Its Being Cut From
a Princes Head Described BY an
Eyewitness.
The Siamese have a quaint and pic
turesque custom which is celebrated in
every family p etending . wealth
and fashion, when child becomes
of age of cutting the top knot. This top
knot is a round patch of hair allowed to
grow ON the top of the head, while the
rest of the head is closely shaved The
locks are wound round into COLL fast
ened with pin and surrounded on festive
occasions by tiny chaplet of sweet
scented white flowers. 1t is worn until
the boy is to become in measure indie
pendent, or in the case of girls till their
manageable age begins to draw near
The date is regulated by the fancy of the
family, controlled in some instances by
the family soothsayer, and ranges from
nine, eleven and thirteen years; but the
even numbers are avoided as less pro-
pitious. But when the day does come,
the top-knot cutting is a great and gay
ceremony. When the parsonage to be
operated upon is "Chow Fa," or celes-
tial prince, the rite is elaborate and
splendid. But when the heir apparent to
the crown of Siam takes his turn at the
hair cropping, the whole festal resources
of the palace and the kingdom are ex-
hausted in doing honor to the event,
which occupies n week Il ~r.f ~,
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-02-04
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