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Show A Black Firk-Kinu He Eat.s Hot Coals and Swallows Hot Lead. Down in Maryland they have a colored man whom they style the African fire-king. Recently ho gave an exhibition of his "powers'' to a select compauy. After applying a red-hot red-hot shovel to the bottom of ohc of his feet, without making an impression on him, also licking the shovel, still red-hot, red-hot, with his tongue, without even drying the saliva in his mouth, and taking a red-hot anthracite coal from a stove, without scorching his hand or lingers in which ho held it. he asked if there wero "unbelievers ' present. One individual atatiug that he remained re-mained unconvinced, the fire-king, as tho story goes, put a shovel in the stovo and partially filled it with shot, and when the shot got pretty hot he stirred them with his naked lingers till the lead had melted. He then took thcshovel in his right hand and poured the hot melted lead in his left hand, and then poured the burning solution into his mouth, kept it thero till it cooled, and spit it out in a lump. After the latter performance the "unbeliever" "un-believer" expressed himself entirely satisfied. The tire king said that was only a -0 performance : if they would make him up $50 he would shon something worth seeing. Acio Yorf Sun. |