The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 42, June, 1894: An Illustrated MonthlyVarious
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The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 42, June, 1894: An Illustrated Monthly
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A facsimile of a photograph closes our present list. The photograph is
that of an Indian fakir--one of the most celebrated in India at the
present moment, if not actually the most celebrated. He is seventy
years of age, and has worn the immense mass of iron chains shown
in the photograph continuously, without a moment's cessation, for
the past ten years. The weight of the iron is 670lb., and as may be
seen, the "Jingling Fakir," as he is called, is by no means a man of
muscular build--certainly not of the build best fitted to adopt such an
amusement as the continual carriage of considerably more than a quarter
of a ton of iron chain.
[Illustration: THE JINGLING FAKIR.]
In addition to these, as has already been remarked, several other
interesting pictures are to be seen in the present issue of _The
Picture Magazine_, as, indeed, is usual every month. It needs but to
see these to understand that a book of pictures alone may be something
a great deal more important and interesting than a book for children
merely.
_From Behind the Speaker's Chair._
XV.
(VIEWED BY HENRY W. LUCY.)
[Sidenote: DRESS IN THE IRISH PARLIAMENT.]
Fortuitously at a time when the re-establishment of an Irish Parliament
at Dublin was within measurable distance, there has been brought to
light a suit of clothes described as the Court garments of a member of
the Irish Parliament who represented County Cavan in the year 1774.
It has, of course, turned up in the United States, and is now on view
in a shop in Chicago. The suit is described as being of a deep maroon
broadcloth, embroidered with heavy solid gold bullion, with the figure
of a harp surrounded by a wreath of shamrock, and a vine of the same
extending around the skirt. The breeches are of a deep yellow plush,
and the three-cornered cocked hat is of black beaver, covered with
gold lace. From this it would appear that when Ireland had her own
Parliament her sons spared neither money nor taste in the effort to
live up to it in the matter of clothes. The suit, on the whole, seems
almost to suggest the presence of a State coachman. Taken in the mass,
it must have been very effective.
[Illustration: "EM I TO UNDERSTAND?"]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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