AMUSING MESMERIC EXPERIMENTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1804, 3 October 1884, Page 2

AMUSING MESMERIC EXPERIMENTS.

The Danish mesmerist Carl Hansen's experiments in London have thrown the rivals Cumberland and Irving Bishop, completely in Iho shade. On one occasion, by a simple act of volition, he drew (for it was literally nothing less) a lady from the body of the hall up to the platform, and made hei sing as if she wag performing at a concert, and then, in the twinkling of/* of an eye, transformed her into <M housemaid, busy with a broom in hand sweeping the floor. Again there was a change in the spirit of her dream. She was a lady gathering flowers in - ( her garden, and the flowers which she graoiausly presented to several of the audience and wore in her bosom were pieces of paper which she picked as flowers from the floor.' At the bidding of the mesmerist she retired to her place in the body of the hall, and when released from her trance was totally unconscious that she had left her seat. On the same evening a gentleman was rapidly mesmerised and made to believe himself Sims Beeves, the vocalist, and, for a wonder, free from a cold. Believing that he was called on to sing, he gave "My Petty Jane" with great effect, and was encored. A red-headed Sootchman again declaimed as Mr Gladstone, and created much amusement by declaring that he did not want any policemen about him.