Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-01-04
A STRANGE EXHIBITION.
The Performances of an Arab Who Was
Apparently Invulnerable.

. HAiN1E CNTllDi iON'
The Performances of an Arab Who Was
Apparently Invulnerable.
The first performance Of the Arab
described as Hadji Soliman Ben Aissa
that is, a member of the fraternity of
the Aissaouas-an said to have at
tanned to the sanity dignity of mara
bout, attracted large number of med
ical men, who certainly showed a lively
interest in the proceedings. The an
nouncement of the exhibition seemed
to promise something of the kind which
can always be commanded by the tour
list in Algeria, and which inspired
Delacroix to paint one of his most IA
nous pictures AS matter of fact,
the difference between the Arabs per-
Torrance and the familiar show re-
ferred to proved to be as G eat as the
difference between the rites of the
children of Aissa as performed among
themselves and the spectacle as ar
ranged at Algiers or Oran for the en-
tcrtainment of European visitors, with
whom "to see the Aissaoua" is but an
expression of sightseeing, In the
place of the pandemonium, vocal and
instrumental, the fierce yells and howl
ings, the frenzied dance, the eloquent
tom-tom, and exploits that recall, but
far transcend, the operations of the
priests of Baal, the Arab at the Aqua
rum performs in cold blood on the
stage of the theater, and is, of course,
unsupported by the contagious excite
ment and ecstacy induced by the nor
NAL performance of the brotherhood
After a preliminary inhalation of
vapor from the hot charcoal of bra
zier, into which he has thrown some
powder, he declared-in French of a
kind superior to what we have yet
heard from Arab lips-a condition of
insensibility to pain was produced
though how this could be, or how Local
insensibility could be thus effected
there was no explanation offered by
the critics present Whatever may EC
thought of the claim, the sceptic would
admit, at least, that the performance
was creditable piece of acting, Their
the Arab took some long steel needles
much like knitting needles, and thrust
one through the upper portion of eacf
forearm and two others entirely
through both cheeks, in which condi
ton he submitted himself to closest eX
animation, talking with ease and uncon
Germ the while The old schoolboN
trick of driving pins to their heads il
the muscles above knees seems a
childs play to this show of stoicism
With the same kind of needle the Aral
operated on his tongue precisely as he
treated his cheeks, and in the same di
rection. Then with fine stiletto anC
the audible blows of small mallet, HI
drove some three inches of cold stee
into his body, obliquely toward his lief
side, without showing the smallest dis
comfort. After this his placing an arm
above flame, and near enough for {
scorching, was a small matter HI
then suffered viper to fasteu on hi
finger and did divers other slightly
disgusting things.-London Saturday
Review.
Abe Buzzard, the newspaper-mad
outlaw of Lancaster county, Pa, ha
home ideally situated for the bust
ness of bandit. He and his brother;
have lived all their lives in a wild anC
inaccessib range of hills upon tn
edge of the richest farming district il
the United States. The community a
the foot of Buzzaris m 0uatain range j
made up of industrious, frugal ant
peace-loving farmer folk, every man o
whom sets before himself in boyhoo,
the object of obtaining a competenc
before he shall have been overtaken b.
old age, and great many attain thei
object 1t is not unusual to find farm
ers in this region who have never bee,
fifty miles from home, although the,
possess houses, lands and leisure. TIL
whole Buzzard tribe never robbed tn,
Lancaster farmers of half so much a
did single sleek gentleman who SET
tied among them, lived at ease, enter
tanned his neighbors, kept snug ban
account, and all the while piled b
night the trade of a horsethief in th
very community where by day he was
respectable citizen.
--"Why did Barlow aad his wife g,
abroad on different steamers? Quar-
rel?" mo Mrs Barlow thought
would be plcasanter for the children
Two steamers were not likely to b
lost, and if one of them had gone dowr
Che children would have had one pa
emit left, anyhow. "-HaTpees Bazaar