Then one after another she places the eggs on the knots of the
cord, until all are flying about her head in an almost horizontal
position. At this moment the dance begins, and it is almost
impossible to distinguish the features of the dancer. She
continues her dance, apparently indifferent to the revolving
eggs. At the velocity with which they revolve the slightest false
movement would cause them to knock against one another and surely
break. Finally, with the same lightning-like movements, she
removes them one by one, certainly the most delicate part of the
trick, until they are all safely laid away in the basket from
which they came, and then she suddenly brings the wheel to a
stop; after this wonderful performance, lasting possibly thirty
minutes, she bows herself out.
A unique Japanese feat is to tear pieces of paper into the form
of butterflies and launch them into the air about a vase full of
flowers; then with a fan to keep them in motion, making them
light on the flowers, fly away, and return, after the manner of
several living butterflies, without allowing one to fall to the
ground.
Marksmen.--It would be an incomplete paper on the acute
development of the senses that did not pay tribute to the men who
exhibit marvelous skill with firearms.
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