Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

Keep up your enthusiasm! There is nothing more contagious than exuberant enthusiasm.

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

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

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

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.