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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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our searching for new principles of which they can make use. I wish to call your attention to some recent astounding advances in magic which have taxed my curiosity, for I find myself at a loss how to explain them. I mean the living 508 THE OPEN COURT. skull, the automatic card riser, the enigmatic cube, and other contrivances of Joseflfy. In each case this man seems to perform what other magicians have only dreamed of accomplishing. With his card riser the spectators may bring their own packs, choose the cards freely; no threads are used nor is there any visible connection with the goblet that contains the pack, and yet any card
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will rise at Joseffys command at any time. The living skull is made of copper and may be placed on any article of furniture. There is no thread or outside connection yet it carries on conversations with its master by clicking its teeth the required number of times when asked a question. The enigmatic cube is first a one-inch cube which Joseffy produces from the air, and it is then seen to grow while in his hands to a two-inch, a four- Miscellaneous. 509 inch and a nine-inch cube. This he now sets in full view upon his table, wher eit is seen to grow slowly to a size of three feet and six inches. The wizard now lifts this cube, from under which steps a beautiful young lady who starts to run up the stage. The master snaps his fingers, when she instantly stops and disappears in a sheet of flame in full view of the spectators; and in her place is seen a gigantic bouquet of real roses, which are plucked and distributed to the audience. When such apparent marvels can be accomplished by the magicia

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