Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-09-03

nragieian-I6 Is the Same Which Globe
 yrotter Stevens Claims Is HIiraeulously
 Performed by Yogi Men.
 The sleight of hand performances of
 Mir Maskelyne. 6 remarkably clever
 inoeler. have excited a great deal of in-
 terest in London. Not only are his
 t,icks skfllfully done. but his explana-
 lions of other tricks have attracted much
 ,ttention among 8 class of men who
 ealdona visit the halls where featso of this sort are presented.
 The Mail and Express recently pub
 nshed an article from the London Spec
 tator i'll which the writer describes one
 or two tricks which he saw in India
 and which rnystified him greatly. Here
 ig one. which, by the way, is described
 iR Thomas Stevens, the globe trotter, who says that the Yogi men, who per
 form it. are aided by an occult force that
 fine world is as yet ignorant of.
 A juggler placed cloth over the paye-
 ,nanf of the street, and presently he
 removed it, and there was a mango growing between the stones. "Fhe jug
 yloy J adds the writer, 'one of the he
 yodita1y caste, did undoubtedly make a
 leaf spring out of the ground; did make
 if crow into q dwarf mango, and did
 hand tbe mango from 1t to be eaten It
 looked wonderful because of the appar- ent tsimpliclty of the juggler, but he per
 formed his feat i'll four. processes, and
 between each he shook out his chudder, or npsIin wrapper, so that 1t passed for
 a,, instant between the spectators and fine pIant. The writer had no doubt
 tbep and has no doubt now that this
 WIS done not to conceal anything, but
 to distract attention momentarily; that
 the first leaf, the upgfowth of leaves,
 the dwarf mango and the mango on it
 were all ef WAX or other carefully made imitation, and that the whole miracle was laarYolously rapid sleight of hand. ? To Americans who are interested ip this sort of thing this mystery is almost amusing. It was exposed several years ago by Kellar, the prestidigitateur, Four
 or five years ago KeIlar publicly offered
 si. GOO to any one who would perform q trick which he eould not duplicate and which he could not prove to be done by
 wholly hamam aids \ number of per sons who had recently visited India im-
 elediately deluged him with desefip- tions of this and other specimens of
 oriental jugg1e1y Of course as they could not perform the trick themselves
 they didnot compete for his money offer,
 and therefore they were not publicly answered
 Kellar however, gave me personally 8 fJtl1 explanation not only of these
 tricks, but of several others which have
 long bahled the cleyerest of the oeei-
 dental inyestieators. The magician has spent moro than 15 years of his profes sional life i'll India and the far east, and
 he has closely studied the tricks of the
 native jngglers with more or less profit
 to himself This is how he explained
 the mango Or pineapple trick as nearly
 as can recall it:
 "The first time 1 saw the mango trick, " said he, twas ill Bombay i'll 1879 or thoreabouts, and the man who
 did it was the most skiilful conjurer l
 ever saw in India. Even after 1 had learned the secret of his illusion I could
 not help admiFing its ingenuity and the dexterity with which 1t was performed. E The juggler and his two comrades chose spot before the Prince of Wales stat ue on the plaza. He first laid down bag on the hard ground and then drew from 1t large bandanna handkerchief Digging q small hole in the ground with one finger, he buried a pineapple
 seed, and over this he placed his hand kerchief. He carefully smoothed out the cloth, rubbing swiftly from left to right After this naneuver was ended
 he made several passes with his arms over the handkerchief, while his com .rades beat industriously upon their drums. and blew upon their pipes
 Suddenly, to my surprise, l saw the handkerchief begin to slowly rise ill the
 center and gently sway from side to side as though a plant were really sprouting to life from the seed which he had planted beneath the cloth When the handkerchief had risen like tent to helght of about 1 ? inches, the eonjurer stopped his ineantations and cautiously lifted up the left hand corner of the cover and peered beneath it. Then, plunging both hands underneath to the accompaniment of loud and discordant musle he threw aside the cloth and showed a full grown pineapple plant. lhls IS the way he did the trick, as ]. he afterward admitted to me:
 ln smoothing out the cloth he reach ea into the bag, the mouth of which was conveniently placed near the hand I kerchief, ahd whiskad out a hooded co- ora snake. The moment the reptile was
 lald down it began to coil. That made l the handkerchief 1ise. When it had reached its full height, it's angry hiss Ing meanwhile being drowned by the hlusic Of the assistants, tho performer looked under the cloth, taking care to ufaW the corner lose to the mouth of lhe bag Then he adroitly whisked out hollow pineapple from the bag under meath the cloth. It was now the work of q minute only to force the snake into she apple, close the aperture, and the eflck was done '-Beniamin Northrup
 Ill New Yogk Mail and Express.
 A Rose in a l5esiys t.
 A quiet woman, dressed unassuining- y in brown, was eating her dinner in q
 popular tearoom. She was a regular pa sioh and was waited upon generally by ehe same girl Today noticed that she