Show HIS 19 keat TRICK tir the conjurers 1114 4 brisk whish Is I 1 let lot va I 1 must toll tell the family of the curious of a remarkable trick I 1 law saw ff performed fOrmed while on a voyage 1990 from london lidon to calcutta 1 the conjuror conjurer was a ao 10 whom you might have taken for a respectable Per cervant vant out of place but who actually waa was A it landowner traveling tra cling for who had taken up conjuring oa As an amusement spreading a whilo white cloth on the dock of Us 1 learner steamer he eat sat down with hie his back against the companion hatch batch an eoon soon as bo he had nettled settled himself ho he tumor to ono one of our follow voyagers and asked for tho the loan of a rupee which ho be roq eusted hould should bo be riven given to ono one of the ladlee proe pro ont tont iho the lady took it and nt at tho the request of the con lurer aurer looked at it und declared it to a real rupee tho the performer then told old tho the lady to hand it baer to tho the gentleman of 0 whom he hod had borrowed it it tho the gentleman loman took it and then tho the owing ensued conjurer are jou sure hut that Is lea a rupee lellow voyagers yoe yes conjurer close bour our hand upon it and hold it tight now think nt of BOMO country in Lit lurono ropo but do not riot tell mo me your thoughts after a moments pause the gentleman who held the cola a aid said that ho he had thought of a country iben ibon open your hand enid said the juggler Juff fler two what 3 ou havo have and toll tell mo me if it tr Is not a coin of tho the country you thought of strangely enough it was a 6 5 frano piece mid and our friend admitted hint that ho he had tho thoi thorit g lit it of az francc nm lie ile rw cu thu i 11 u of 1 LIAO wilt lu 0 ilia conjurer for inspection when hen thol tho litter tt eald said no 0 o paea it to another As I 1 happened to bo be tho the dearest rc arest tho the i 5 fronc a wa was handed to me I 1 looked do clo oly cly at it carefully exa miln ing loth tides sides until I 1 was satisfied that it wm n coin of the realm of france c on though it had been a ru pea but a few minutes before then tightly clutching it in my tny band hand I 1 thought of ameria when I 1 had relaxed my ramp I 1 found that I 1 had bad a mexican dollar in my band hanl thi this I 1 banded to a gentleman on my right who in turn thought of russia and opening hie his hand found a russian bit all vor piece an a place of tho blex mexican ican dol lar juggler performed several other tricks during tho the voyage but they were of a commonplace kind and in no way to tho the coin trick which I 1 havo nover never seen riffled or explained st louie louis republic |