Mystic Divination

The conjurer introduces an ordinary pack of cards, and, after shuthing it thoroughly, invites a spectator to cut it as often as he pleases. Then, turning his back to the gentleman, he requests him to divide the pack into as many heaps as he desires, the heaps to be laid in successive order on the table.

One of them is then to be chosen and covered with a handkerchief by the gentleman. This packet of cards. enveloped in the borlowed handkerchief, is placed in the spectator's pocket by the performer, who then proceeds to call out or write on a blackboard, the names of a number of cards. The gentleman is requested to remove the cards from his pocket and finds that their names are in conformity with the predictions of the performer.