AN ASTOUNDING FEAT IN THOUGHT READING.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1179, 19 October 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

AN ASTOUNDING FEAT IN THOUGHT READING.

A striking development of the new philosophy, thought reading, has just i been made by Mr Stuart Cumberland ; To read blindfolded the number of a j bank-note has always been looked i 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, 4G, Portman Square, one Saturday night, where many distinguished ladies and gentlemen had assembled to witness illustrations of the thought reader’s powers. Not only .lid Mr Cumberland succeed in telling the Lord Mayor the number of his note, I but he afterwards correctly described I the date of a coin thought of by Baron ■ de Worms. Several other very extra- I ordinary experiments were likewise performed with the member for Greenwich, The Right Hon. A. J. Beres-ford-Hope, M.P., Sir Wil’iam Eraser, Bart., M.P., Mr Howard Vincent, and | several other eminent persons had i their thoughts read, to their intense | wonderment, the demonstrator being : immediately successful in all his at- , tempts with them. But perhaps the I most extraordinary exhibition divining ' another’s thoughts was that of 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 I from this gentleman's coat. Mr Cumberland professes to be able to tell the ages and so forth of others, but after he had successfully performed some experiments in this direction, a stampede was very naturally made amongst the fair sex, "who, whilst willing to be amused and interested, thought it wise to avoid a contingenej’ which might be associated with unpleasant revelations.