At the Hippodrome in Paris some years since there was a man who remained in this position seven minutes and ate a meal during the interval.

There were two clowns at the Cirque Franconi who duplicated this feat, and the program called their dinner "Un dejouner en tete-a-tete." Some other persons perform wonderful feats of a similar nature on an oscillating trapeze, and many similar performances have been witnessed by the spectators of our large circuses.
The "human pyramids" are interesting, combining, as they do, wonderful power of maintaining equilibrium with agility and strength.

The rapidity with which they are formed and are tumbled to pieces is marvelous they sometimes include as many as 16 persons men, women, and children.
The exhibitions given by the class of persons commonly designated as "jugglers" exemplify the perfect control that by continual practice one may obtain over his various senses and muscles.

The most wonderful feats of dexterity are thus reduced into mere automatic movements.
Either standing, sitting, mounted on a horse, or even on a wire, they are able to keep three four, five, and even six balls in continual motion in the air.

They use articles of the greatest difference in specific gravity in the same manner.