Head Upon Head.

Otago Witness, Issue 2426, 12 September 1900, Page 70

Head Upon Head.

This feat of balancing, though, as will be seen, not ccmplicaied, is fir from being simple of performance. The one man -just "stands" on his head on the head of his comrade, who walks easily up and down the flight, of stairs on the stage with his inverted partner poised aloft.

Some performers use a special wig when doing this trick. The section of it shown reveals the concave pad of rubber or other substance imbedded beneath the hair, and intended, when worn by the balancer, to receive the top of the head of the man above. One round cranium meeting, unprotected, another would be liable to slip off, maybe entailing a severe accident.

The* l Premier of New South Wales has dispatched a cablegram "to the Agent-general asking him to secure four of the famous 4.7 guns, fitted with carriages, for field work, together with several Vickers-Maxims or pompoms. Sir William J . Ly:ie asks for early delivery. Private W. S. Brown, of the West Australian first contingent, has written to his mother at Alberton, under date Bethlehem, J'sly 10, to the effect that the contingent was on its way to Durban, where it was intended to take steamer for Capetown, and thence return to West Australia. The horses were to be given over to the South African Government at Harrismith. The contingent was being relieved by the West Australian Bushmen. He had applied for a position in the Government railways, and had been accepted. He would be permitted three months' leave of absence alter discharge from the contingent in West Australia. New Zealand scenery, all admit, Is unsurpassed in any land ; One gazes till he's loth to quit Views so splendid and so grand. But a. inter brings its squalls and storms, When everybody should inure His system with the stuff that warms, W. E. 3Vopds' Great Peppenniat C^ngi