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

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.

Anyone who believes in magic is a fool.

My Brain is the key that sets me free.

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

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