The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-24
THE LITTLE GEORGIA MAGNET.
She outdoes the Combined Efforts of
Several of Savannah's Scientists.


thusiastic audience at the theater last
night, which she delighted by her mani
festations of her wond erful power, which
proved too much for about a dozen of Sa-
Vannah's strsng men.
She was brought before the audience by
her manager, who gave a brief account of
her history and the discovery Of the
| peculiar magnetic power which she has
exercised since she was years of age.
In response to requests from the man
ager Drs. Boyd, Charlton, f. G. Wilson,
| Brandt Profs. Baker, Taliaferro and
| Crowther, Judge Hampton Ferrill
/ Emile Newman, ESQ, Mr. +. ID. Blood
| worth and Mr.. W. S Tison took seats on
the stage and agreed TO become subjects
! of the tests of her force.
The popularity of the force was that it
| was manifested only when the flesh of
/ Mrs. Abbott came in contact with that of
/ the subject, there being no response
! whatever when there was any insulation,
such as a silk handkerchief between.
The first test was the holding of chair
by one of the gentlemen, who eneircled it
with his arms, and several others put
their hands upon it to see that there was
no pressure exerted. Butat the slightest
| touch from the hand Of Mrs. Abbott,
whoever held the chair moved quickly
| around the stage in response to it.
Mr.. w. S. Tison walked out with q tri-
umphant look as he was asked to pull a
chair from the hands of Mrs. Abbott
which she held loosely without clasping
1t. AS he buttoned up his coat with u de-
termined look, the audience cheered
him Justify. But it was no use, the chair
wouldn't come down. Superintendent
Baker had TO bow to the loud applause
which greeted him before his effort to do
the same thing, but he, too, had to return
to his chair in defeat
Mrs. Abbott then held a round stick in
her open hands almost perpendicularly,
and all Of the gentlemen were invited to
endeavor to pull it down. After an unsuc-
cessful effort by DR.. Brandt, there were
loud cries of ''WilsOnI' 'sWilson - from
the audience, and indeed, DR.. Wilson
seemed to be their fayOrite strong man
during the evening, but he Jared no better
than the others. Try as he would, the
stick wouldn't bulge. The combined eff
forts Of Drs. Wilson and Brandt and Mr..
Bloodworth met with no better success,
and they returned TO their seats with de-
cidedly flushed faces from the efforts
they had in vain exerted.
Then came the test OF lifting Mrs. Alb
bott Judge F'errill has pr8bated many a
will, but that one before him was an in
soluble mystery. He could lift her with
hankerchiefs between his hands and her
arms, they seeming to act as insulators
but when the handkerchiefs were removed
she stood like a statue bound to the floor
and the Judge gave it up as impossible
The combined efforts of Drs. Boyd, Will
son and Brandt Prof. Taliaferro, Judge
Fefril and Mr.. TisOn met with the same
defeat. Drs. Charlton and Brandt let
Mrs. Abbott stand on their hands and an
effort was again made to lift her. They
stated that there was no diminution
whatever in her weight while the at
tempt was being made.
The combined efforts of Prof CrOwther,
Messrs. Newman and Bloodworth and
Supt. Baker failed TO move Mrs Abbott
although she was standing on nothing but
her heel. She would hold in her hand a
rod, stand on one heel and then any of the
committee was invited to attempt to push
Mrs. Abbott over. They all tried one
after another and failed in each instance
TO move her an inch. The combined eff
forts of four met with no better success.
A peculiar physical fact about Mrs. Ab-
bott is her abnormal pulse and tempera-
ture. DIR. Boyd stated that her pulse was
100, while the normal is from ga to So DR..
Brandt said her temperature was 954,
while the normal is 96.4. Several of the
physicians stated that they had never be-
fore heard of a similar case. The way in
fessors was amusing, to say the least.
Miss Abbott's notices, which her man
ager distributes to the press, credit her
with having given performances before
about every crowned head on the globe
She is credited by an Atlanta newspaper
man with having $4,000 worth of dia-
monds, pearls and other jewels, and is
otherwise pretty well fixed with this
worlds goods. Her scrap-boolzs contain
l 300 pages from the leading magazines.
newspapers and periodicals. written in
scores OF different languages and largely
decorated with profuse illustrations. She
has letters from nearly all the kings,
queens, emperors, princes, dukes. lords
and royalties of the old world written
under the royal seal and expressing their
highest appreciation of her wonderful en-
tertainments. The Duchess of Suther-
land gave her a cluster of diamonds which
must have cost several hundred dollars,
while the Prince of Wales presented her
with his photograph framed in a large
solid gold frame. The King of Greece
gave her writing portfolio made of the
finest kind OF skin, decked with silver
mountings, on which was engraved her
name, date and donor. A Russian noble
man gave her his photograph framed in
solid gold, with his name engraved upon
1t and his autograph written across the
photograph from his own blood, this be-
ing the very highest possible respect
from this high source. One of the
Rothschilds gave her 475 for an enter
tainment in his palace while a German
prince gave her an elegantly set diamond
bracelet, bearing his monogram and the
royal crown. She has souvenirs from the
Sultan of Turkey the royal houses of
Italy, Germany, France, Spain and Egypt.
She gave entertainments in Damascus.
Jerusalem and Alexandria, and her in
dorsements in all of the papers of Europe
show that She was Landed and praised bv
the highest families of the Old World.
She certainly had the swing of royaltyac-
cording to her credentials, which say she
appeared by special command before the
Emperor of Germany, the Emperor of
Austria, the King of Italy, the King of
Greece, the King of Roumania, the king
of Belgium, the King of Sweden, the
Gar of Russia, the Sultan of Turkey. and
other crowned heads; and gave special
performances before the Queen Of Eng
land ana the Prince and Princess Of
Wales.
Doris, - the play Robert Drouet has
written for Etie Ellsler, viii receive its
initial performance here k'ridaY evening,
the first of Ellie kllsler's engagement.
The play has been one Of the positive
successes of the season, meeting with the
greatest favor wherever produced, and
Efde Ellsler, an actress VINO can always