Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1900 — Feat of an Indian Juggler. [ARTICLE]

Feat of an Indian Juggler.

One day In the market place of an Inland village I saw a curious performance,” writes an East Indian traveler in the Cincinnati Enquirer. “It was conducted by two men—one old and, emaciated, carrying a native drum; the other young and well fed, fantastically gowned with an overskirt of colored handkerchiefs and a multitude of bells, which jangled noisily at bls slightest movement; long, ragged hair—altogether a hideous figure. "The drummer began a weird tomtommlng, and the other man an incantation. Then he extended a ‘supra’— a bamboo tray used by all natives—on which any one who pleases places a large handful -of rice and the same quantity of grain. The two ingredients are thoroughly amalgamated, so that It would in the ordinary way take hours to separate them. “Now the fantastic man with his tray begins. He turns around (the drummer also keeping time), faster and faster, In a giddy vortex, the tray at times almost out of bls hands, yet so cleverly handled that not a grain falls out. It is very trying to watch, but In a couple df minutes both stop simultaneously, and the man shows to Hie wondering spectators two little heaps, one of the rice and the other grain, at different end* of the tray, which In liis sickening gyrations he has been able to separate by some extraordinary manipulation.” BL George’s Bay, Newfoundland, contains an Immense coal field fully twenty miles In length, and ten In breadth. It has been estimated that if the output were to reach 250,000 tons per annum, the coal bed would not be exhausted in a century. In ancient Egypt, when a cat died in a private bouse, the Inmates shaved their eyebrow*. The killing of a cat, even accidentally, was considered a capital offense. During the last two year* 11,370 men have been kilted in tattle