Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — The Lizard’s Breakfast. [ARTICLE]

The Lizard’s Breakfast.

A young man in the Gilsey House case yesterday afternoon looked nervously at Professor Herrmann, the diabolical “Whizzard.” The Professor was in unusually good spirits, but that wasn’t the reason why the young man was nervous. Not at ail. The young man was just getting over an attack of the night before, and he was in a condition to be easily startled. When the magician sat down he called out: “Waiter, a fly.” “All right, sir,” said the waiter, as if requests for the common house flv were the most natural thing in the "world. Then it was that the young man's eyes bulged nervously. After considerable exercise of both leg and fist agility the waiter caught a fly and brought it very caiefully to Professor Herrmann. The optics of the nervous young man literally glared with expectation. Placingthe fly on the table the Professor, in a most tender manner, lifted a delicate little green lizard from the lapel of his coat, corraled it in front of the fly with a tiny stake of gold, and then you should have seen that lizurd jump. The fly disappeared as quickly as a bit of Herrmann palm istry and the eyes of the lizard blinked. The young man’s face had in the interim assumed an expression almost human, and Professor Herrmann ordered hit own breakfast.—[New York Recorder. '