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guards, and orders them to arrest the magician. The latter throws down the guards, transforms them to demons, w hom Inorders to chain the king. Then, [jutting on the royal crown, the sorceicr retires, dancing with the queen and Iter attendants, while the king remains chained to the spot.
476 ... THE ORACLE OF DELPHI 1] Lengths
The temple occupies the entire widtli of the scene ; two sphinxes of stone, upon massive pedestals, guard the strong door.
Desiring to make an offering to the divinity which graces the edifice, a rich nobleman commands his slaves to bring the coffer which contains the precious treasures to be presented. After locking the door, he goes away with bis slaves ; while a bandit, who has been watching him, forces the lock of the door, penetrates into the sanctuary, and emerges with the precious box, with fear depicted in his countenance. Suddenly the god of the temple appears at the door. He orders the coffer to be returned, and the sacrilege to be atoned for. At bis orders, the stone sphinxes become animated. They sei/.e the bandit and change his head into that of an ass. The sphinxes re-mount their pedestals and resume their former shape.
477 ... A SPIRITUALISTIC PHOTOGRAPHER
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This subject is an absolute novelty, the effects obtained by a process only recently discovered. For the first time one sees a dissolving effect upon a background absolutely white, a photographic difficulty most cleverly surmounted. A spiritualist covers a frame with a sheet of white paper before which he orders his subject to stand. Then he lights a magic powder by which one sees the person gradually disappear and the likeness to form on the paper. The magician shapes the paper into a large cone in which is discovered the vanished person, the paper meanwhile having become entirely blank as at first. This subject puzzles an audience by the clever illusions displayed.
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A singing teacher, followed by his pupils, runs across some telegraph wires strung on poles. These five wires, the professor thinks, would form a very effective musical " staff." He carries an enormous "key of G," which he throws upon ' the wires to give the proper "pitch " to his pupils. He forms a " measure " by fixing his stick in a perpendicular position among the wires. In Order to have notes, he tears off his own head, and fixes it among the wires. Thus he obtained the first note of his air. Then he fixes upon this " staff" several heads corresponding in position to the first part of the tune (" God save the King.") ( )n the beating of drums, the heads rearrange themselves, and one sees the second line of the air. Another beating of drums, and the heads shift about until they form the third line of music. Satisfied, the professor departs followed by his pupils. The heads, abandoned among the wires, cast a look at the crowd as it disappears. Immediately the heads are transformed to birds and fiy away. This subject, accompanied by the proper music, produces great mirth.