V. Fire-eating magicians. Ching Ling Foo and Chung Ling
Soo.--Fire-eaters employed by magicians: The Man-Salamander, 1816.-Mr.
Carlton, Professor of Chemistry, 1818.--Miss Cassillis, aged nine,
1820. The African Wonder, 1843.--Ling Look and Yamadeva die in China
during Kellar's world tour, 1877.--Ling Look's double,
1879.--Electrical effects, The Salambos.--Bueno Core.--Del
Kano.--Barnello.--Edwin Forrest as a heat-resister--The Elder Sothern
as a fire-eater.--The Twilight of the Art
VI. The Arcana of the fire-eaters: The formula of Albertus
Magnus.--Of Hocus Pocus.--Richardson's method.--Philopyraphagus
Ashburniensis.--To breathe forth sparks, smoke and flames.--To spout
natural gas.--Professor Sementini's discoveries.--To bite off red-hot
iron.--To cook in a burning cage.--Chabert's oven.--To eat coals of
fire.--To drink burning oil.--To chew molten lead.--To chew burning
brimstone.--To wreathe the face in flames.--To ignite paper with the
breath.--To drink boiling liquor and eat flaming wax
VII. The spheroidal condition of liquids.--Why the hand may be dipped
in molten metals.--Principles of heat resistance put to practical uses:
Aldini, 1829.--In early fire-fighting.--Temperatures the body can endure
VIII. Sword-swallowers: Cliquot, Delno Fritz, Deodota, a
razor-swallower, an umbrella-swallower, William Dempster, John Cumming,
Edith Clifford, Victorina
IX. Stone-eaters: A Silesian in Prague, 1006; Francois Battalia, ca.
1641; Platerus' beggar boy; Father Paulian's lithophagus of Avignon,
1760; "The Only One in the World," London, 1788; Spaniards in London,
1790; a secret for two and six; Japanese training.--Frog-swallowers:
Norton; English Jack; Bosco; the snake-eater; Billington's prescription
for hangmen; Captain Veitro.--Water spouters; Blaise Manfrede, ca.
1650; Floram Marchand, 1650
X. Defiers of poisonous reptiles: Thardo; Mrs. Learn, dealer in
rattle-snakes.--Sir Arthur Thurlow Cunynghame on antidotes for
snake-bite.--Jack the Viper.--William Oliver, 1735.--The advice of
Cornelius Heinrich Agrippa, (1480-1535).--An Australian snake
story.--Antidotes for various poisons
XI. Strongmen of the eighteenth century: Thomas Topham (died, 1749);
Joyce, 1703; Van Eskeberg, 1718; Barsabas and his sister; The Italian
Female Sampson, 1724; The "little woman from Geneva," 1751; Belzoni,
1778-1823
XII. Contemporary strong people: Charles Jefferson; Louis Cyr; John
Grun Marx; William Le Roy.--The Nail King, The Human Claw-hammer;
Alexander Weyer; Mexican Billy Wells; A foolhardy Italian; Wilson;
Herman; Sampson; Sandow; Yucca; La Blanche; Lulu Hurst.--The Georgia
Magnet, The Electric Girl, etc.; Annie Abbott; Mattie Lee Price.--The
Twilight of the Freaks.--The dime museums