A NEW ILLUSION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1613, 19 July 1887, Page 4

A NEW ILLUSION

* . M Oaat'er de Ko't», the Hungtrian iliuaioniat, who haa for soim lime been entertaining Egyptian H:tll audiences, has brought out another illu ion. It ia c lod 'Thn Oocoon." Tho singl < mcopsary h a pAoat wocxUn fra™.e, s^m 4 ;. lvgh w\ \ 3h broad, upon which is at: etched a sheet ! of ti*su9 paper. Th a fr<i;na U p!;io;?d [ upon a plainly onstuct d table iv iho centre of the stags and !3 eunpoit d fr n ab;ve by a cord attached to it 3 iv. p?r edga and by aiians of ringa fixdd ia hi walla to vu igV.ts ct either a ; de M de j Klta hiving a rar.ye 1 : !.i3 simple appir;--tas proceeds to rmgltlj- ek>.tch upon the jtiesue paper a sectional rep oeentatiou of lariikwormin the cco>on Tho drawing Is no sooner completed th;n the tissu* paper burs's, 1 ni BU'pended m Die centre of the fraina is seen what li lutended to represent an euoim^us cocoon. Tt-e dimensions of ihis (Xiggorated m.-dtl and the ast-iuading off ct of its euJdou production m a delio.ktbly- 'la'.anoed position fr cm apparently nowhere m>y be guiged when It is stated thai the model presen'l/ opens and Mdma. de Kolta emerges from within as tho moth ii t which f-M silkworm haa been met-amorphia-d. The rapidity with wilch the whole ttick Is executed, tho Bimplioty of the apparatus, and the nature of the olimix is astonishing.