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Show A Mind Reader's Remarkable Feat- Irving Bishop, the "mind reader," it will bo recollected, died in Xew York city some months ago, immediately after performing per-forming a difficult feat. At Chicago the other day Paul ' Alexander Johnstone narrowly nar-rowly escaped the fato of Bishop while displaying dis-playing his powers under similar conditions. condi-tions. He drova blindfolded through the Btreets from the Auditorium to the Grand Pacific hotel, and there picked out a name on the register which had been previously, choseu by a committee. Besides the bandages ban-dages and hoods over his eyes, a coat covered' cov-ered' his head during the performance of the feat. He faiuted twice before finding the name, and when he had done so fell in a fit, from which he was with difficulty recovered. re-covered. The exhibition was a remarkable one, but just what service it is to the world at large remains to be seen. |