Year: 1874

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In the Sunday morning Press ap


pearei long article giving an ac-


count OF the experiments of J. r


Brown, the so-called 'smind.reader ,


befor' several of the learned faculty Of


Yale College. To say the least, it is


somewhat remarkable to see Profess.
ors o Yale College unduly surprised


7tle performance of Brown, when
+. artormances of the very somewhat


mil. Gus feats lie within the power


OF almost any person. Mind-reading
as performed by Mr.. Brown, is but a a
simple parlor amusement, which can
be shown any evening, when the prop
er conditions, which are simple, are
complied with.


Illustrative of this fact, little per
sonal experience may be detailed.


More than three months ago Press
reporter, spending the evening with
party of young ladies and gentlemen,
first saw the same principle exhibited
and the very same feat which MI
Brown performed upon his first exper-
lment shown. A young lady of the
party was bl:ndfolded, One of the par
ty then took small table mat and
carried 1t into another room, placing il
upon a stand. Returning, the lady
bhndfolded took with her left hand the
right hand of the person who had plac-
ed the mat in the other room and she
placed her right hand for a few mo-
ments upon her companions forehead.
After standing in this position for a
very short time the right was removed
from the forehead, and raising the left
hand of her companion, still holding it
IN her own, to her forehead. she went
directly through intricate passage-ways
to the very article.


After this experiment the same was
repeated with other members of the
party, the articles each time being very
different and placed in a place un-
known to the person blndfo!ded.
The reporter was one of the number
who took the character of " blind god
dess," for the performance of two ex-
perlments. After being bindtolded
and the article hidden, he began the
search for it, going directly to it at first
and unconscious of his relative position
In the house, and believing he was still
going forward in straight line, he
suddenly came to pause and exbe
lenced SIC strangest feeling be had
ever known IN his life. It it hard to
expla n it. but it was more like endeav
orlng to fly without knowing how to
begln-a seeming effort to 20 up after
something. This sensation is explain
ed by the fact that the article secreted
had been placed some distance above
his reach. Instead of going directly
forward as he had supposed, he was
told he had continued to walk by the
article without stopping, going from it
for short time, but Immediately re-
turning. The experience during the
second experiment was much the same.
tie is told that he spassed the article
more than dozen times, then pausing
before it. The article was placed be-
low his head. and he only remembers
feeling sensation similar to some one
pressing gently on the back of the head
and realized that his head was pressed
upon book-the article of which be
was in search-safely deposited in the
lap of a young lady.


The only conditions necessary are
that the person whom the then blind
folded person leads should keep the
mind intently On the object and where
it is hidden. The s mind-reader''
must as we'll keep his mind intent on
the fact that he searches for some
thing The experiment is decidedly
amusing one, which does admirably to
while away an evening. While the
reporter has never seen the other ex-
pertinent detailed in the article in Sun
days issue tried, he has no doubt that
they can be performed by almost any
one as we'll as Mr.. Brown.