| Show of the london standard is not inclined to credit all the glories of magic and related of the fakirs of india but it does give credence to some well authenticated performances witnessed by europeans and which it says cannot be explained by any of the laws ct ec ienco for instance it chitea that one well known writer on Ja colliot left an account of certain things be saw during hie official in india which as thay to defy fairly be classed among things the performer was fakir whom be accidentally met and who required some persuasion before he would exhibit beata which he continually affirmed were the work of other on some sticks fixed upright in flowene pota were placed leaves from a tree with bolea in each euf large to make them fall to the level of the mold i standing at a con bid erable distance the fakir made a gesture with hie hande A elijht breeze seemed to the room then the leaves quivered and gradually worked upward on the Ja colliot placed himself between the flower pota and the operator paced the clicks in the floor ng and adopted every means ho could imagine to frustrate any trickery but W i S nothing be did made any difference to the movement of the leaves the more familiar feat ot the ly growth of was utterly eclipsed by another instance vouched for by the narrator his own benant bought him a acore ecore or from which he selected and marked one the fakir planted it in a a pot of earth muttered bome words over it and tell into a sort of trance which last ed about thirty minutes he then awoke uncovered the pot and discovered a two or three high Ja colliot examined if and found it bad sprung from the seed whick be had marked with of peacocks feather the fakir depressed a balance of a common weighing machine in sally use in the household in the anther was a weicht of twelve stone and a dia tant motion ot his hand be made sh avines of to eink or move in water still more marvelous marve loua ia the Ue scrip ion of the manner in which ahta veritable eastern wizard was able to bet at defiance the law of gravity on this occasion when the room be paused on the threshold folded his arme and by a simple act of volition raised himself from the floor and remained poised in the air for some minute |
