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Show Tricks of Indian Jngclera. Some of the tricks nro performed by every juggler you meet; others again are of Bucn an astonishing nature, and border bor-der so nearly on the miraculous aa to be beyond the capacity of an ordinary performer. per-former. Of tins character aro the orange 1 tree trick nnd the burial trick. If, after having witnessed these feata performed In broad daylight, ono is of tho opinion that it was an optical delusion produced : by tho mesmeric power of the operator, I can only tsay that the ability to obtain an absoluto mastery over every faculty of the observer is no less astonishing than would be the actual performance or an apparently impossible feat. The most noticeable feature In tho per-' formance of the Indian juggler is the entire absence of any kind of apparatus, j His scanty clothing affords no oppor-, tunity for concealment, and every feat ia performed simply by manual dexterity or is a delusion effected by mesmeric influences. in-fluences. Tho famous wizards of Europe and America were nothing without apparatus, ap-paratus, and a great deal of the effect of their performances was due to their magnificent mag-nificent and costly paraphernalia. Ingenious In-genious mechanisms and expert assistants assist-ants wero absolutely essential to the Buccess of their delusions. As an illustration illustra-tion of this I may mention that Anderson who, by the way, was the poorest wizard I ever saw, considering his reputation repu-tation mado oath some thirty years ago in an 'English bankruptcy court that his apparatus, destroyed by the burning of Covent Garden theatre, London, was worth over $y0,000. and that the effort to replace it was tho cause of his insolvency. insol-vency. ThiB amount, of course, included stage properties and everything neces-1 6ary in his business. A 75 cent carpet j bag would hold all the appliances deemed I necessary by a Hindoo juggler. Even in the beautiful butterfly trick he manufactures manu-factures his paper butterflies as occasion requires. Charles E. Koniain in The Cosmopolitan. |
