IRVING BISHOP, THE THOUGHTREADER.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1591, 13 May 1887, Page 4

IRVING BISHOP, THE THOUGHTREADER.

That arrant humbug, Irving Bishop, says " T. T. " in Truth, has been exhibiting in Boston. His pretensions to " thought-transference " were mot in a very practical fashion there by Mr M. Montague, a gentleman on the press, calling together pressman and others, and performing precisely the same tricks. Having done this, Mr Montague explained how they were done. Mr Stuart Cumberland met Mr Bishop's mystic trash in precisely the same manner on this side of the Atlantic; and it is to me a mystery how any man, woman, or child can be found in any part of the world so foolish as even to discuss with Bishop " thoughttransference." He has been exposed again and again. Musele-reading is a very simple feat, which can be oerformed, with practice, by any one; and thought-transference—ie, the power of one man to read the thoughts of another without contact—is impossible. Let any one put a note for $ LOO in an envelope, hold it in his hand, and offer Bishop to bet him the valuo of the note that he will not state its value: If he sees that Bishop's money is deposited in a safe hand before the experiment takes place, the owner of the SIOO note is certain to double his capital; so certain, indeed, that Bishop will take very good care not to submit to the test under conditions that made trickery impossible. For my part, I regret that Bishop is not making money by his tricks. If he were, and if he were to return here with it, I should have some chance of getting the costs which he has been condemned to pay me, but which I regard as doubtful an asset as an Honduras Bond.