THE OBSERVATIONS OF A FAMOUS_£QN JUROR. Hr Herrmann, the prestidigitator, ih the oouwa of an interesting review in an American cflntempQiW of the^needa of a Kjcoesefol practitioner of the black ait, wakes light of the muoh-laudod jugglers oflfedia.;— • '' \ 6JSLT iBAVEIiLERS' TALES. I* is oaciußa of tbeir dexterous übo of palmistry that the magioiftM of Europe and Amerioa to-day far surpass any that have gone before. Thia language may sound strange in view of the fabt of the widespread celebrity of the East Indian conjuror. India has always been the Me^ca of conjurors, and in quest of know ledge I visited it, remaining there some time. lam convinced that the marvellous stories related of East Indian jugglery are bn( th« oft-repeated tales of travellers. The trick narrated by nearly every Bast India traveller, of the native tossing a skein of silk in' the air and forming of it a ladder upon which he aacendß, disappear ing and drawing the ladder after him, I never saw, nor could I find anyody who could authenticate it. The other tricks which I saw performed no magician of any pretension would reproduce. They were clumsily performed and of the most primi tive order. The fact is, the jugglers are ignorant mountebanks performing on the publio plazas, and trusting to the pennies they receive for their remuneration. , THEIE TBICKB ABB CENTraiES OLD, and, according to the laws of caste, descend from tribe to tribe and frqnv father to son. One or two of these tricks may be mentioned here as samples, because nearly every book oa East India travels oontains a mention of them. The cobra snake trick baa always been most puzzling to travel lers. Ita performance and 'solution are as follows:— A party of the jugglers, naked with the exception o£ clouts about their loins, appear in the open market-place. After a series of incantatory sounds, a cobra is produced and tortured into seeming frenzy, until the bystanders, ; with bated breath, watoh the pro ceeding, fearful lest boois one of the danoing, howling jugglers may raaefc his death from tha fangs of the maddened reptile. Suddenly, before the gaze of everyone, the cobra disappears as though "vanished into thin air," and the jugglers appear as disconcerted at the disappearance as the spectators. 