She makes about 12 knots an Fig 2.-THE WOMAN WITHOUT A BODY. longer or a shorter time, according to the spectator. It isquick in some, and slower in others; but it may be said thatin almost all, this kind of spectacle strongly excites thecuriosity. For this reason, ever since the first exhibitionof… … Tig. 3.-EXPLANATI0N OF THE PHENOUENON. prestidigitators and physicists have been exerting their in-genuity in order to obtain analogous effects by varied pro-cesses; and so there has appeared a large number of decapi-tated talkers, living busts, half-women, persons with twoor three heads, men cut…
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