AN ASTOUNDING FEAT IN THOUGHT-READING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3523, 23 October 1882, Page 4

AN ASTOUNDING FEAT IN THOUGHT-READING.

A striking development in the new philosopy, thought-reading, has just been made by Mr Stuart Cumbealand. To read blindfolded the'number of a bank-note, has always been looked upon as impossible, yet Mr Cumberland has succeeded in accomplishing the feat with no less a personage than the Lord Mayor of London. The experiment took place at Sir Benjamin and Mrs Sarah Phillips's residence, 46, Portman Square, one Saturday night, where many distinguished ladies and gentlemen had assembled to witness illustrations of the thoughtreader's powers. Not only did Mr Cumberland succeed in telling the Lord Mayor the number of his note, but he afterwards correctly described the date of a coin thought of by Baron de Worms. Several other very extraordinary experiments were likewise performed with the member for Greenwich. The Right Hon. A. J. Beresford-Hope, M.P. ; Sir William Fraser, Bart., M.f.; Mr Howard Vincent, and several other eminent persons, had their thoughts read, to their intense wonderment, the demonstrator being immediately successful in all his attempts -with them. But perhaps the most extraordinary exhibition of divining another's thoughts was that on finding a person in the room thought of by a well-known leader of fashion, and handing to her a rose which he had mentally expressed should be taken by him from this gentleman's coat. Mr Cumberland professes to be able to tell the ages and so forth of others, but after he had successfuly performed some experiments in this direction, a stampede was very naturally made among the fair sex, who, whilst willing to be amused and interested, thought it wise to avoid a contingency which might be associated with unpleasant revelations.