id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
435	Houdini, Harry	Miracle Mongers and Their Methods A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc.			.txt	text/plain	39901	1796	71	iron.--To cook in a burning cage.--Chabert's oven.--To eat coals of that a London appearance was arranged for the same year; and at Mr. Laston's rooms, 23 New Bond Street, her performance attracted the most Chabert took 20 grains of phosphorus, swallowed oil heated to nearly heat, the fire-king challenged any man living to drink a spoonful of clever performers drew quite fashionable audiences for a long time, and No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a enable the fireman to take into his hand burning or red-hot bodies. The last act in this extraordinary performance is the swallowing of a I have seen one of these performers on the street, in London, swallow a water worked those houses; but his performance met with little The feats which I saw him perform, a few days ago, were the following: performances, for eight or ten years; men of ordinary strength found	./cache/435.txt	./txt/435.txt