An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.

The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

It is needless to say that women make the most patient as well as the most dangerous pickpockets.

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

I am not an irretrievable skeptic. I am not hopelessly prejudiced. I am perfectly willing to believe, and my mind is wide open; but I have, as yet, to be convinced. I am perfectly willing, but the evidence must be sane and conclusive.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.