A MARVELLOUS FEAT.

Clutha Leader, Volume 1, Issue 52, 8 July 1875, Page 3

A MARVELLOUS FEAT.

lin^iajmy/ recounts/the ! I ordinary feat ojP / Siamese "' j ugg-ling :— ij One trick wliich -Minhman performed i was a] very superiorversion of the mari~ ! go tree feat of.the Indian jugglers. A He took ;an orange, .cut it out, and produced! a serpent. : ;This he took -do wn" into the audience, and, borrowing a robe from one, cut the' snake's head off, ;*and covered it with a robe: When 1 the/ robe was lifted again a fox was in the/ place of the snake. The fox's" head washout off, two robes borrowed, and. when I they were raised there - was a which was killed with a, sword. /Three; robes,; and aleop&rd appeared >< it ~ was ! slain with a javelin. Four robes covered" a most savage looking huffalp, that was. | killed | with an axe. Five robes covered^ in part, but not altogether, a most lordly' elephant, who, when" the ; sword was f pointed at him seized Minhman by the neck and tossed him J yiolently/up.. iHe. , mounted, feet foremost, • and finally chragjby his toes to *he : capitaJ of one of the columns. -: Tepada'nowleape'd from : [ the stage and alighted ,upOit tbe< elephants shoulders, With.a short swprd.;he goaded this beast on / tne Head until. i shrieking, the unWieldf animal reared/ upon : his hind feet, t wi tied hi^ 'trunk about one of the great columns, and. seemed trying to lift itself from theground and wrap its body .round, the. great- pillar.; The music clashed out. most '■ barbarously. ..Nprodoh flashed forth a dazzling firework of some sort, aad the elephant had disappeared, and Tepada lay upon the stage, writhing in the .folds of a great boa constrictor, and holding up Minham upon his feet. .