The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-02-09
a mAP.WARr THOUGHT READER.
A Pundit Who Certainly Does Some Very
CurioaS Things.

Pundit Who Certainly Does Some Very
Curioas Things.
A correspondent writes to the Times
OF India; Tits wei known that Bombay
attracts from various parts OF the conn
try many persons who. by processing
astroiogy and other pseudo-sciences,
expect to OBTAIN some of the supertiu-
Gus cash of credulous folks The native
town abouadS with such people, some
of whom are sojourners for time. dur
ing which they reap aplcntiful harvest,
While others settle permanently here.
The Pundlt who has given me occasion
TO write Is not one of those. He comes
from Marwar, in Raipootana. and is
known by tie name OF Pundit Jaluram
Sharma Magyar, residing at kalbadevie.
Hi power of reading thought com
n.tted to paper without having seen or
even touched this paper makes him
unique among thought readers.
A gentleman having told the writer
that the Pundit had exactly made out
what he had written on bit of paper
which was laid on the table, crumpled
and rolled up. and which the PUndit
did not even so much as touch, an inter
view was arranged with the Pundlt,
who undertook to exhibit his power
before a circle of friends. There were
about ten gentlemen in the room, and
the Pundit engaged to read three differ
ent questions put to him by three per-
Sap-, sf-Swf1om the writer was one. The
question was composed in the Guzerati
lDnOl1g N I.an I'D n
Devanagri characters, as the Pundit
knows these better than any other
characters. 1t may be here stated that
any language in the world can be
used, provided only it is transliterated
mot trans,ated) into the Devanagri
characters. The questions were written
in an adjoining room, and there was no
chance whatever of them having been
seen by the Pundit, who was during
the time engaged in conversation with
the other gentlemen. The paper was
folded and crumpled and put on small
table in the middle of the company,
along with the questions of the two
other gentlemen, who used the same
precautions as the writer The ques-
1 TONERS were then asked to select the
names of some flower or fruit, and ia
numbers written on bit of paper. The
somewhat queer condition imposed on
us was that we should take the name OF
God while pointing out the number.
This done. the Pundit and comp ,nion
whom nc had brought with him en-.
gagged themselves deeply in making
some calculations
ut must be remarked that through.
out the entire proceedings the three
bits of paper lay within sight of every
one on the table, unseen, untouched,
untampered with by either Pundit or
his companion. After few minutes
the Pundit handed over to the COM
pany a strip of paper on which some
thing was written in Devanag-i, and,
taking up one of the rolled-up questions
from the table, asked us to compare
the two The strip written BY the
Pundit was the exact copy of the orig
inal question, SO with the second, and
so also with the third, which was re-
produced verbatim ct literatim, even to
the very note of Interrogation, which
kwas put in the original of this question
Vawne. The whole occupied hardly half
an hour, and everything passed off
without any hitch whatever Nor were
there any suspicious proccedin IS on the
part of the Pundit or his companion.
The conclusion is clear. Either the
present writer and the other specta-
tors, including some very shrewd
and some trained observers, were
imposed upon, or the Pundit has
some power which cannot be accounted
for by more science. The former may
be, after all, true; but the writer can
say this much, that there was no chance
whatever of trickery, and that every
possible prccaution had been taken
against deception. IN. y. Recorder.