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Show ' j TnE Japanese. This troupe, with i its wondorful performances, is the sen-j sen-j sat'ton of tho hour in amusements. To i particularize each feat and expattato upon it, would occupy far more space than wc have to spare. To see a man walking, bare-footed, without support, up a ladder of sharp and naked swords, tho solo of the foot on tho keen edge, is btartling enough; but tho feats of Gangcro bailie brief description. Ho plays with throe, four and fivo balls as if they wero only ono; juggles with swords that flash in tho lamp light as their sharp blades cut the air; shows how a man can be a skillful archer without the use of hands, fitting the , liny arrows to a tiny bow and shooting j with astonishing precision with his j toee; and among other romarkablc things introduces an astonishing bottle-trick bottle-trick in which, by tho simple action of the mufides of the wrist, the bottle appears ap-pears to have tho power of volition. Tho posturing and tumWing of the ! three little acrobats; tho rope walking by tho "belle of Japan," tho balancing and other feats show tho superiority of the artists, and verify tho statement j that tho troupe was carefully selected from tho leading theatres of Japan, I each being a star in his or her line. |