AN ASTOUNDING FEAT IN THOUGHT-READING.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1186, 23 October 1882, Page 2

AN ASTOUNDING FEAT IN THOUGHT-READING.

A striking development in the new philosophy, thought reading, has just been made by Mr Stuart Chumberland, 1 o read blindfolded the numbor of a. bank-note has always been looked upon as impossible; yet Mr Cumberland has succeeded in accomplishing, tha feat with no less a personage than the Lord Mayor of London. The experiment took place at Sir Benjamin and Mrs Sarah Phillips's residence,- .46, Portland Square, on Saturday night, were many distinguished ladies and gentleman had assembled to witness illustrations of the thought-reader's powers. Not only did Mr Cumberland, succeed in telling the Lord Mayor the number of his note, but he afterwards correctly described the date of a ooin thought of by Baron de Worms. Several other very extraordinary experiments were likewise performed with the 'member for Greenwich. The Right Honorable A. J. Beresford Hope, M.P., Sir William Fraser, Bart, M.P., Mr Howard Vincent, and several other eminent peisons, had their thoughts read, to their intense wonderment, the demonstrator being immediately successful in all his attempts with them. But perhaps the most extraordinary exhibition of divining another's thoughts ■was that of finding another person, in the room thought of by a well-known loader of fashion, and;, handing-to her a rose which he had mentally expressed should be taken by him from this gentleman's coat Mr Chumberland professes to be able to tell the ages and so forth of others, but after he had successfully performed some experiments in this direction, a stampede was very naturally made amongst the fair sex, who whilst willing to be amused an,d interested, thought it wise to avoid a contingency which niight be associated with unpleasant reyela* tions.