The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

Disloyalty in trusted servants is one of the most disheartening things that can happen to a public performer.

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

What the eyes sees, the ear hears, and the mind believes.

Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.