Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-16
day, and beneath these waters they have
performed MANY unique feats.

performed man, unique featS.
The impossible things that can be done
with the human nave always
been good bread winners There is a COM
potency in having a throat and aesopha
gus SO constructed that it is possible to
push a watch and chain, a 20 or 25-inch
cavalry sabre or a bunch of sharp bayo-
nets down into it without fear OF killing
oneself, while the coal eaters and glass
eaters Of both sexes have a source OF in
come that is still to be relied upon.
Feats of strength or those that demand
a steady hand and a cool head are al
ways great money k Strong men
and strong women are great attractions
and so are the acrobatic performers, es-
pecially when they display merit in their
work as was shown by the troupe OF
Japanese and Chinese artists who took
the amusemet world by storm last win
ter. To balance oneself almost upon air
then perform all kinds of unusual
feats while in that position is a certain
road to public favor.
The male and female contortionists
Who tie themselves into bow knots and
slip nooses that would startle an angle
worm, are old timers, but the old feats
impossible as they seemed, have been sur
passed from year to year until. at the
present time, the contortionist h de-
sires to perform acts that are aWe-ln-
spring has no simple task before him.
Mounting a ladder, the rungs of which
are swords or sharp knives, is an old
trick, but it is til a favorite, especially
when it is performed by a clever Japan
esa acrobat, for on such occasions the
public has reason to belive that there is
no fake abou it.
There is a little Japanese girl who is
an expert in sword walking and her feats
enable her to draw a large salary.
Before she became an expert she SUI
fered awful tortures, for as she ex-
, plains, the trick consists in knowing how
! to grip the edge of each sharp scimltar
with the toes. 1t must be lone fearlesly
and the performer must mount WIN
firm, quick step as soon as the foot IS =
! position. The secret of sword waikiki
is one that cannot be learned from books
however 1t is all a matter of experience
and practice and in this case the expert
ence is apt to be unpleasant.
DARING AIR FEATs.
Daring performances high in the air
tricks of tumbling that make the per-
former seem more like a rubber ball thar
a human being of flesh and bone anc
blood are popular spectacles. even Wher
not accompanied by undressing acts and
other features hat novelty hunting
shoWmen have devised. Waikiki witt
the head downward, living a good pof'
ton of ones life with their heels in NJ
air; running foot races or nanSlnS on W
ones toes to the rungs of a polished hori'
zontal ladder or with big suction shoe:
on ones feet perambulate about a cell
ing, a veritable human fly, are diversions
of the human functions that are Still
delight to the populace.
These are but a few of the tricks tina
are used as a means of winning the ap
plause of the public and from season t
season they undergo a change, Away
harnminr q. little more novel. which |
another word for Dangerous AS soo1
as the public shows evidence of begin
ming to tire of the old trick a new one i
devised. If it is successfully accom-
plished the performer is assured of thre
meals a day for some time to come. I
on the other hand he kills or otherwis
initiates himself in trying to please tn