| Show A WO MIRROR among amanthe the curiosities bics tics te to be met with in the paris exhibition is a hue huge concave neave c mirror of a startling species of optical tic 1 m agic oa oil stand st andina ine inZ close to it it presents bothin nothing but a monstrous dissection of 0 your physiognomy on retiring a couple of feet f pet it gives your own face and figure in true apropo tion but reversed the tiie head bead downwards bat retire still further standing at tte tle distance of five or six feet feit from the mirror and behold you see To not a reflection but your veritable seif self standing in the middle part between you and the mirror the effect is most roost appalling from the idea it suggests of something supernatural to so startling in fact that men of the strongest nerves will sli sll rink involuntarily at the first view if 11 you raise your bandoo thrust it at your other self yon you will see it pass clean through the body and appear on the other oilier si dethe figure thrusting at you at the same instant the artist who first succeeded in fashioning a mirror of this his brought it to one of the french kings it if we recollect aright it was loun XV placed him on the right s spot p 0 t him draw his sword ani and thru thrust stat at t the h e figure lie saw the king did so but bilt seeing the point of a sword directed at his awn breast threw lint rint down own his weapon and ran ganway abay avay way the practical joke cost the inventor the kings patronage and anti faar be being afterwards so much ashamed of his own bowar cowardice dice dlce that he would never again look at the mirror pr its owner |
