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THE FAKIR.
FEATS THAT MADE PEOPLE" SWOON.
Friends who lived in the East tell me thero is little exceptional about the fakir, or his performance, but for most of us who saw it, it was more than exceptional -it was startling, writes a Paris corres- pondent.
When the Fakir plunged a murderous- looking dagger into his throat, a lady in 'a front chair swooned straight away. He had undertaken that no blood should flow until the jury of doctors should ask for it.. When the word was given it flowed to order and no copiously that the French- mao next to mo, after trying to leave, Hopped forward, and had to be laid out to recover on the floor.
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Tahra Bey is young man of 28, but
bible he is bearded, and looks like a prophet in a coloured print. He is mov desty itself, and tells you that his science is shared by many others of his kind, but he insists on the reality of his powers, and appeals only to western men of science to help him to explain them.
DOCTORS UNCONVINCED..
So far as the nine doctors on the plát- form last night are concerned, they are still in the stage of wonder, and though they find no trickery, are not quite con- vinced either.
They watched Tabra while he skewered his cheeks and throat, without blood-let,
or wound that survived the exercise of his own will to heal it. They saw him extended corpse-like and rigid, his only support sharp blade inonated on tres- tles at his ankles and neck, while a lusty. fellow with a sledge hammer smote in two a huge block of fint placed on, his abdomen.
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They helped to place hiu, stripped to the waist, on a frase from which 200 sharp apikes reached upward to rend him, and like the audience they held their breaths when a man sprang on to his chest and pressed him down upon the points. He was taken-up and examined. No blood, and no trace of what had look ed like torture! Had the spikes pene trated? The medical men took notes, but expressed no opinion, and other onlookers appeared too. bewildered to ask
EXPERIMENT ON RABBIT. There were other feats of the same cur-
tain-raising kind. Three of the doctors
retired and addressed to the fakir a let ter which they wrapped in another paper, sealed in an envelope, and held up to him at a distance of a yard or so.
It asked him, as we found later, to take a watch from the pocket of a journalist on the platform, and to entry it to a lady sitting in the audience. This he succeed. ed in doing, but only after wandering about vaguely for ten minutes or more The journalist, who did not know that he was cast for a part, had complicated bis task by changing his place two.or three times during the experiment. At no, time was the fakie in physical contact with the nuthors of the letter.
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STONES OF ST, STEPHEN'S. CRUMBLING OF THE HOUSES OF
PARLIAMENT,
Professor Baresford Pite, who holds the Chair of Architecture in the Royal Collage of Art, South Kensington, des criber in the following article in the Observer, the history of the stone facing upon the Houses of Parliament whose decay under chemical action demands immediate attention and outlay.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10TH, 1925
Mr. Watson proceeds: As evidence died in selecting the stone they did to prove that those in authority, wero››
to supplement that from Bolsover, "Moor quarry, it is only necessary to mention that the stone from Anston quarry was of Practical Geology in London (Jermyn also used in the erection of the Museum
Street) opened in 1931, and was quarried at the same time as that for the, Houses Museum it was most carefully selected by Sir H. de la Reche, who was then Director-General of the Geologies). Sür vey, with the result that scarcely a sinele The magnesian limestone is he says structure. It is both sad and ringular defective stone found its way into the being changed by a gentle but pervade that the Government propose to serup ing rain of dilute sulphuric acid from the building that is n successful example- the adjacent potteries into some sort off of the use of this stone in London, while a heap of Epsom salta."*"
of Parliament," but in the ease of the
contemplating an enormous expenditure. The writer touches briefly upon the to maintain its defective brother. Also, remedies which may have to be convice of the despised expert has a really how stringent is the lesson that the ser- aidered.
economic value
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PRAISE OF PUGIN'S BUILDING.
The headline, Decay of Houses of Parliament," in The Times, he writes, happily proved to reter to physicni rather than moral or intellectual decay, done. It is a question not only of All have an interest in what is to be but in either event it represents nothing national and imperial concern, but has fresh in the way of news. Ever since importance to the world history of archi- New Palace at Westminster is built, Westminster, as they stand, to the outer the magnesian limestone, of which the tecture. The appeal of the buildings at was first exposed to the chemical can world, should not be overlooked. Very stituents of the London atmosphere, it many years ago, when a student sketch- has been slowly and surely transformed ing in Germany, a distinguished Munich into some sort of a heap of Ersom salts palater recounted to me his impressions The fumes of the potteries Lambeth bank of the river, next door to make the acquaintance of the work of the of English art. He had been to Londoa to the Archbishop, which ascend from Millais, Watts, and others, and estimated their chimneys and kilns, descend in a them critically; but added that the Houses gentle bat pervading rain of dilate of Parliament, as viewed from the river sulphuric neid upon the pile of exposed and Embankment, had A beauty that magnesia at Westminster, with demon made his "eyes stick out strable results. Carlyle's row of pepper strange the genesis of the design may pats, with tin-flags atop, is melting into seems to be to the "Tudor style, pre- unwelcome physic, with some suggestioning of Barry's classicism of plan with scriber a peculiar to England the ming of response to his dyspeptic humour.
on
However
Fugia's rechaufée-Gothic features, the THE CHOICE OF 1839. English cathedral tower at one cod, the Flemist belty at the other, with the Thchenric.itdecomposition that is lantern in the centre, which Ferguson said going on at the Houses of Parliament is ought to have been the dominating probably due to the unforeseen forces feature-the whole combines into an latent in the petteries near by. However, artistic result of which we ought to be it was not without exhaustive inquiry proud. Others see it, in ita singularity, beforehand that the building was faced as characteristic of our national intoler with magnesian limestone from York-ance of European tradition, and as pos- shire. A Royal Commission was appointing novelty and freshness among ed in 1830 to report on and select the buildings of its scale. We should learn most suitable building stone for con-not only to respect its value as an ex- structing the new Houses of Parliament ample of xurious surface detail, welded in London. This document has proved Ever since to be a fountain of authorita tive material for text-books on building materials. The extent of the survey of the resources of the kingdom and the careful statement of available quantity and quality of stone is remarkable:
The report concludes:-
into breadth and harmony by simplicity of plan, but also and this leason, in the to reverence the enthusiasms of our more difhent to a stiff-necked generation immediate anvestors, and we may well ask our gives: What sort of building can to-day be contrived to take its place as the premier secular inonument of English historical government t
judgment, the evidence in favour of theficial decay will nee he artistically a
"Having weighed, to the best of our
Whether a certain amount of super- various building stones which have been vantageous is another question that sug brought under our consideration, and gets itself. Tinie lays a softening hand freely admitting that many sandstones, on architecture; the proportions and that posse, tay guest oro remain, and the details
bound to state that for durability, as advantages as building materials, we feel
gain by suggestiveness. Some fixative from the results of experiments instanced in Southwell Church, etc.; and ot Lambeth, of which drain-pipes and may be found to arrest decay. The kilns ginger-heer bottles are the undiqnited if for crystalline character, combined with useful products, may be expropriated and a close approach to the equivalent pro- the mischiet ameliorated at its source; portions of carbonate of lime and car but we are ready bonace of marcada; for tiniformity of huh, at any rector to porteat in advance structure facility, and economy in con. is now a bygone phase of architecture version, nad for advantage of colour, the in, tay. Portland stone or unperishable magnesian limestone, or dolomite of concrete. Bolsover Moor and its neighbourhood, is in our opinion, the most fit and proper 011
material to be employed in the propio ed new. Houses of Parliament."
The piece de résistance the burial of Tahra in a state of suspended animation for a period determined by the medical sart of hors jury-was preceded. ns d'oeuvres, by some experimenta animals meant to demonstrate the same power which he possesses over himself Taking a rabbit, he extended it sharp ly by the neck and hind feet, placed it on its back, and by touches and passes about the throat of the animal indreed a state of complete catalepay. It was not too quickly done, however the rabbit struggled, and a young girl in front of me. whe had not inarmured at the sight of blood, cried. ") naman!" and shud- dered violently. But three minutes later. a the touch, as it almost seemed of an electric button in its qeek, the little animal gave a kiek and a cry and was gambelling about the stage again. other rabbit and two hens were immo- bilised more quickly.
UNDER A TON OF SAND. '.
An
Bat Tahra is now ready for the great test. A black coffin-like box, brass haudies complete. gapes on the stage, Twents or more sacks of eand are brought in," the fakir throws out his bare arms, presses his temples, clasps himself about the neck, sways, and falls inanimate into the arms of the attendants. He is placed rigid in the coffin and is covered with sand, and the lid is replaced.
Then the coffin is raised by half a dozen men and deposited within a great case nt its side More sand arrives from the wings, and for ten minutes the work of burial goes on. The fakir 'now lies beneath a ton of sand,
He has asked the doctors how long he ia to remain in his narrow cell, and after consulting the audience they have fixed. the time at 4 minutes. Within minutes the sand must be removed, and he has engaged to reappear a living man, Meantime the tension of the audience is relieved by a short lecture from the platform on the feats of the fakirs, hut. as the time-limit approaches men and. women begin to breathe bard, and the thought of a tragedy is in many minds. A doctor gives a signal, the attendants hurriedly begin to remove the sand with spades, and soon the codin is bare again.
is hoist to the perpendicular, the lid
I removed, and Tahra is revealed. He is ghastly pale, and a quiver agitates his face and his, whole form. A doctor re moves the cotton wool from bis-mouth and nostrils, and then with a sigh he steps out on to the platform.
DOG'S STEANGE DEATH.
Adat Preston began to swallow a deflated toy balloon. It stuck in the throat, and made the dog cough. This inated the balloon, blocking the air Lausage and suffocating the dog.
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The late Mr. John Watson, of Cum- bridge, in his invaluable handbook en- HOW THE SYSTEM IS WORKED titled "Descriptive Catalogue of British and Foreign Building Stone"" in the Sedgwick Museum of the Unver sity, thus deals with our patient: The erection of the Parliament houses hnd not proceeded far when it became evident that the supply of stone from Bolsover Moor quarries was quite in adequate to complete the work, neither were blocks obtainable of suficient size to carry out the designs; therefore when only a small portion of the superstrae examine the applicant, and if he passes ture, to the top of the basement windows, the test, he leaves with the Immigration had been built of this stone, it was neck. Visz of a quota immigrant, and nothing sary to procure & supplernental supply. can prevent his landing without interfer- At first the Mansfield Woodhouse lime-fence at the end of his voyage. This ex- stone was selected, but, owing to the periment will continue for at least three difficulty in obtaining blocks of the remonths... quired. size, this was also superseded by The officers have been busy this week, Anston stone from a acighbouring quarry Each room has its own particular Lusi-quency of less than 1 per cent, while in Yorkshire. The services of an expert ness. The examinaton in chief starts the west coast has about 3 per cent,
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