MECHANICAL AUTOMATON
Or FORTUNE TELLER, in connection with the SPIRIT RAPPING BELL and TABLE!
Although the Wizard is not a great Orator or Lecturer, he will deliver a few remarks on what is called
SPIRITUALISM!
Or Humbug of the First Water, proving that there are still greater humbugs in England than himself, for which he is very sorry, he thinking that he was the Ne Plus Ultra in that particular line of business.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM?
THE GREAT WATCH WONDER
Proving the thickness of some skulls, with the Astounding Miracle, “Anderson’s” (not Pandora’s) Box. The whole of this Unparalleled Entertainment will conclude with the
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BLITZ.
Signor Antonio Blitz was born June 21, 1810, in a little village of Moravia. At an early age he picked up, unknown to anyone, “a few adroit tricks from certain gypsies, who visited his native town.” He began to exhibit these feats for the amusement of himself and friends. He made his professional début at Hamburg when but thirteen years of age, and was known to the public as the “mysterious boy.” His first appearance in this country was at the Music Hall, Broadway, New York. He had many imitators. Not less than thirteen people traveled the United States using his name, circulating a verbatim copy of his handbill and advertisement—“not only assuming to be the original Blitz, but in many instances claiming to be a son or nephew.” “I have been,” says Blitz, in his memoirs, Fifty Years in the Magic Circle, (Hartford, Conn., 1871), “in constant receipt of bills of their contracting, for, not content with taking my name, they have not even honor enough to pay their debts.” The thirteen impostors exhibited under the following and other names: