A FEMALE JUGGLER. 
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sented to be ; nor, in fact, had the woman any thing 
about her to aid deception, had she been disposed to 
practise it. She advanced alone and stood before us, 
within a few feet of where we were seated. She 
then began to move rapidly round upon a spot not 
more than eighteen inches in diameter, from which she 
never for an instant deviated, though, after a few 
moments, her rotation had become so exceedingly 
rapid as to render it all but painful to look at her. 
She absolutely spun round like a top. 
When her body had reached its extreme point 
of acceleration, she quietly drew down one of the 
strings which had formed a horizontal circle round her, 
and put an egg into the noose ; when this was se- 
cured, she jerked it back to its original position, still 
continuing her gyrations with undiminished velocity, 
and repeating the process until she had secured the 
whole twenty eggs in the nooses previously prepared 
to receive them. She projected them rapidly from 
her hand the moment she had secured them, until at 
length the whole were flying round her in one un- 
broken circular line. After the eggs had been thus 
strung, she continued her motion for full five minutes, 
without the least diminution of her velocity, to our 
undissembled astonishment ; when, taking the strings 
one by one, she displaced the eggs from their respec- 
tive nooses, laid them in her basket, and then in one 
instant stopped, without the movement of a limb, or 
even the vibration of a muscle, as if she had been 
suddenly fixed into marble. Her countenance was 
perfectly calm; she exhibited not the slightest distress 
from her extraordinary exertions, but received our 
