Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-02-13


 Mystifed KeIIar and Hermann.
 What was regarded by experts as tic most marvellous exhibition of card magic ever seen at Philadelphia was given at the Hamilton Whist club by Thomas B Arnold of Cincinnati. A formal recop- tion was given by the Hamilton club to MT. Arnold, who, in return for tho hos pitality tendered him, entertained his hosts with a series of most remarkable card tricks.
 MT. Arnold is a well known Cinoin- nati business man, being a member of the wholesale shoe firm of Alter Julian 6 Go.
 He is not professional magician, but his tricks have mystifed such men trained in magic as Kellar and Herr mann. He has refused fabulous sums which have been offered him to go be- fore tho public as professional, pre- ferring quiet, domestic life to any no- toriety he might gain as a magician.
 MT. Arnold opened the eyes of his witnesses by what he calls q very sim ple trick. Two now packs of cards be- longing to tho club were produced. IIe had never seen thom before. Shufling one deck, he held it out to ono of tho gentlemen present, saying: "Seleot card from this pack and then return it, keeping the card in your mind. I will turn my back to you as you make your selection. Ono of the other gentlemen will take the second pack and throw it on tho floor. The only card that will fall faoo upward will bo the card se- lected by you. l will not touch either one of tho decks. ''
 The card was selected, and the gentle- man threw the second pack on the fioor the nine of diamonds being the only card that fell face upward. "That, " ox- claimed MT. Arnold, lis the card you selected"
 A cheer greeted the announcement that that was correct
 Now, here is 8 good one :" said the entertainer. Pointing 10 Charles Yar- nall, he continued: Will you kindly se- leet card ill your mind? Do not men- tion its name. U
 When the selection was made, he pick cd up pack, shuffled it earelessly and walking over to the wall threw the cards at picture. They fell ill show CT to the floor.
 ''Turn the back of the picture out ward, :" said Mir Arnold. Whom this was done, card was seen sticking in crack in the back of the franc. It was the jack of spades. That, sir, is tho card you had ill mind "
 MT Yarnall acknowledged that it was, and tho crowd was convuIsed.
 Again, member of the company was asked to talo card i'll his mind. Four others were asked to take cards at ran dom from the pack and remember the numerical value of tho card. The spec tator who drew the first card was told to write the number on a sheet of paper. The second man wrote the number of his card in q separate corner. The third man placed his number under the sec ond one and added the two together, af. fixing the result to the first number. The fourth man affixed the number of his card to the other two numbers. The re. suit was 374
 "Now, said MT Arnold, Twill two gentlemen accompany mo to the library, each of them holding one of my hands. A third can come along to sec fair play. " They returned bringing book. Turn to page 374, ordered the entertainer. The book was opened at tho pago indi- cated, and card was found It was the deuce of spades ''That is your card, /" said MT. Arnold to the gentleman he had asked to make a selection
 The statement was correct.
 Tho most remarkable trick of all was the last Captain Walton, president of the American Whist Players league, was asked to draw card from the pack, replacing it and keeping the card i'll his mind. Mir Arnold took an egg, selecting one at random from 8 half dozen, and broke it into tumbler. He showed first that neither the shell nor the inner skin of the egg had been bro- ken. No card was concealed up his sleeve or anywhere about his person When tho egg was broken, q card was seen in the tumbler, erumpled up and covered with the yolk of the egg.
 
 What card did you draw, Captain Walton?"
 ''The queen of clubs '
 There it is. " Tho pack was search. ed and that particular card found miss ing
 Although an expert on cards, MT Ar hold never played game for a stake in his life, "I could make fortune as a gambler, said he, flor can deal man any hand choose, but wouldn't dare to play out in our western country, for would be shot sure as fate. I don't know what it is that enables me to do these tricks. I studied them all out my self. but l can't explain how or why l do them. "-Philadelphia Times.
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