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Show The Ghost. Professor Silvester announced on Monday night thai sometimo during tho week ho would produce the famous spectral illusion usually called "Pepper's ghost," from having been introduced to the London public by ProfessorPepper of the Polytechnic. Poly-technic. This is beyond question the most startling illusion of tbe day. The audience see a mtn on the stape, or a i woman, 33 the case may be. The fig-j fig-j uro is before them so palpablo that the jcyes apparently cannot ba deceived ' ;The most deadly weapons are used j against the person thus exposed with-1 ! out effect. Pistols may be fired at it ; I swords run through it ; nay, another individual may walk through the body I on tho stage with no more difficulty than through the intangible air. So weird, go strange, so apparently in-i in-i comprehensible is tbe illusion that it I stacgers tb.a most sceptical who are ig-Inorant ig-Inorant of the means by which it is pto-t pto-t duced. |