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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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creen panel, bearinga double headed eagle—the Austrian coat of arms—surmounting alarge cabinet of costumes occupying so much space on the stage.The programme does not explain that this screen panel is transpar-ent from behind and that an accomplice with a strong magnifyinglens reads every move made by Svengali and repeats his signals tothe pretty girl at the piano and the impersonator at the cabinet. the systems explained. Here is an illustration of how the figure system can be worked.As explained above, the famous personages, popular songs and THE SECRETS OF SECOND SIGHT. 405 operas are on numbered lists. Svengali in the aisle, with his codeof signals, has all these numbers committed to memory. When a spectator whispers Dickens Svengali knows it is No. 4, and he signals accordingly. But how? By touching his head, chin, or breast, or that particular partof his body designated in the signal code of the Svengali Company.The diagram given herewith illustrates the svstem of communica-
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\-T/ tion by numbers, nine figures and a cipher (o), by which all thewealth of the world may be measured, and any number of wordsmay be communicated without a word of speech. One has but tomap out a square on his face, breast or body, and number it withthese nine figures, with an extra space for the cipher, to be readyfor the Svengali business. That is, when he has memorized thenames and the numbers representing them. Say the human head is used for this purpose. Imagine thetop of the head, right hand side, as No. i. the right ear as No. 2.the jaw as No. 3, and the neck as the cipher; the forehead No. 4, thenose No. 5, the chin No. 6, the top of the head on the left side asNo. 7, the left ear No. 8, and the left side of the jaw No. 9. Thus you have the code system by which operators can com-municate volumes by using a codified list of numbered words or sen-tences. If you label the Lords Prayer No. 4, and the Declaration ofIndependence No. 5, you may instantly telegraph the mighty liter

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