The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-23

museums. The trick they perform is very
simple. The glass" is generally a hard,
brittle looking substance which gives a
merry ring when the fakir clips it with
his thumb and foretnger to set suspicious
l minds at rest. 1t gives 4 bell-like sound,
! like that of genuine glass when lightly
1 struck, and jars on the senses when
l ground by the performers teeth. Never
1 iheiess il is merely a hard glucose sub
stance which melts in the heat of the
| stomach and assimilates quite as readily
4 - jelly or even molasses.
| There have been. and are at present. men
l living who can eat real glass apparently
| without suffering from the effects thereof
| am one oil those few individuals, but take
| no credit TO myself for possessing peculiar
| physical quality. Nature gave me cast
| iron stomach and 4 think nothing can
| affect it, first tried chewing and swal-
lowing glass when boy at Nashua, \. III.
Myself and some other schoolboys had
| been reading in our leisure hours flash
| book called THE Gold Hunters in Aus
tralia. wherein We learned that a drunken
Yankee sailor had ground up and swat
lowed glass tumblers during his periods Of
ntemperance.
! told the bows in a spirit of bravado
n. L
frequently ground with my teeth and
swallowed grapeseed, and judged that this
Would not be much harder feat. The
boys urged me on. | bought a very thin
thet glass and broke out a piece of it,
This ground exceedingly fine and swal-
lowed. No evil consequences followed,
and after that did the same thing with
thicker glass. Eventually ! went into the
Show business and made living ont of
my gastronomic toughness. | have fire.
quenty been told by eminent physicians
ina, some day | will do the trick for the
last time, as the glass is liable at any mo-
hent To get into the intestl mes and cause
congestion, yet | have not experienced the
snghtest symptoms OF discomfort. and |
nave ground up and eaten as many as nine
me cut glasses in day.
NY theory about glass eating is simple.
mink that IN my case ut least no great
danger need be apprehended if ali the
organs OF the body are III Il neathful CON
oition and the stomach Is fairly full |
aSays eat q hearty meal about two hours
ofiess before | give a performance. The
glass thus gets mixed up with the food.
and not being nutritious passes away in
The course OF digestion with food " hich is
not flesh producing or blood making. lust
as peach stones and other indigestible
material do. it Is not necessary that |
should state the salary earn. but 50 far
and have only been six years in the husI-
ness-I have earned over $1,000 by the ex-
h.altons have given. Pretty nearly all
Of that money is gone and | will have to
slck 10 glass eating for while longer if
The fad continues 50 popular that | can
Nil make capital from 1t.
by the way. there are two gentlemen
Who belong 10 the Four Hundred who can
eat glass as well az | and make no fuss
saout IT, These gentlemen are George
" OK, son Of the YnIi ION are ban ker Frank
work, and The eccentric Fred May. /
hope neither viii ever have 10 follow II for
business, for the pitcher which often
goes to the we'll viii sooner or later be
efoAen. Ae tate of the pitcher viii some
DAY be miae. + ] MckFxs.