The evening world., 1894-06-07
FEATS OF INDIAN JUGGLERS.
THE MANGO. TIE SUSPENSION AND
THE DISAPPEARING TRICKS.
Very Remarkable Magic. bat Hard
~ Miraculous.

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~ IL assumed that certain feats of
magic hay, been rerforrn,d ,,- ,hou-
'0' wv"
sinus Oh years IN ihuin' which Is true;
which ia imaginary. ana th,, in cor
| tain do,o,,s ,ho,. No. .,,,.,,.,, ',,
1a,h uetni's 'heN are miraculous or out
side natural means which, in the pres
ept state OF tho ev,lonca ia n,r. os-
.r,n,,,,nn A ,,,r,,o ~, ,,, :" ~
SUMPTION a writer IN the London Spec
tator for example, has seen three OF the
.epu.e' miraculous "ieks-the creation
OF the dwarf mango. the sitting In the
air and the disappearance OF Lying
being from a basket In place where
trnpdoors, concealed exits or collusion
were all alike physically impossible.
In thI first case, the jugsler, one OF
the hereditary caste. did undoubtedly
make leaf spring out OF the ground.
did make 1t grow into dwarf mango
and did hand a mango from 1T to be
the apparent simplicity of the Juggler.
but he performed his feat In four pro-
cSesses and between, each he shook out
1t passed for an instant between the
spectators and the plant. the writer
had no doubt then, and has no doubt
anything, but to distract attention mo-
mentarily: that the first leaf. the up
growth OF leaves, the dwarf mango and
the mango on II were all OF wax or other
| carefully made imitation, and that the
whole miracle" was marvellously rapid
sleight OF hand
There WAS nothing in It at all which
tuggler. though he had no sleeves, had a
tnrban, and the performance was de-
cidediy less inexplicable than one car
ried through by a French juggler in the
hall or the Hotel de la Postc at Geneva.
This performer put a five-franc piece OF
the, year 1865 on u plate, promised to
replace 1t by any fve-franc piece asked
piece Of the first republic while twenty
pairs Of eyes were staring at the plate.
The writer. who held the plate and fur
certain that he had never taken his
eyes of the coin, and was, Of course. a
mere victim to his foolish certainty.
the case of the mango though by so some m
In the case OF the sitting in air the
writer has no certainty The performer. M
laws OF gravitation. sitting two feet
from the ground In open sunlight with
her wrist on the HIT, of an ordinary
In a loop OF wire attached to the sword
hllt, and she certainly never brea thed.
long-practiced habit OF holding the
breath, which, as we have been told.
| lightens the body and in some art of re,
tain number Of seconds. It w was s the The
opinion OF n professional man present
that the woman was In a trance, but
there was certainly nothing miraculous
moment nearly inexplicable.
As to the third trick-the vanishing
the writer is certain A juggier stepped
lar and Oriental Company's steamer and
offered the company assembled, who were
lounging about highiy bored by the old
method OF coaling, il they would sub
scribe, to show them something better
than common Juggling The collection,
Of course. was forthcomng at once. He
his wife to lie down. The young woman.
! who may have weighed seven stone,
but more probably SIX. lay down, and
her husband placed over her a shallow
exactly resembling the baskets used for
vegetables in East Anglia and called
"fratl."
Then with a light and graceful gesture
he took up the basket and laid It down
two or three feet on The woman had
vanished, and the audible amazement
Unfortunately the writer, essentially an
awkward man. in stepping back stepped
on the edge OF the "fraii'' and heart a
little cry Of pain. The whole thing had
woman had learnysl To hook herself with
her fingers and prehensile toes into the
frall and the husband n slight but pow
erfui mai, mad learned to lift her ms
| II he were lifting nothing but the bas-
ket The writer. of course said nothing
about his awkwardness; the iugg!er
! either. and only two years ago the case
was quoted as one OF thosa only seen
! in Irdin. and which, owing to the total
absence OF machinery, could not be ex-
! plained away
! There remain other miracles" at least
still TO be explnined. one Is the scf-in-
! terment practised by some Brlhmans,
nuence, The writer has never seen this,