A E R O M A N C Y
Every Day from Ten o' Clock till Six, in the New Saloon,
THE AURICULAR COMMUNICATIONS of an
Invisible Girl
From an
AIR BALLOON
This Novel EXPERIMENT in the Properties of Air, and of Sound,
invites the attention of the Public by a variety of curious and
paradoxical EFFECTS, combining the
most difficult Problems of
AEROLOGY, OPTICS, and ACOUSTICS
From an Aerostatic Globe of Eighteen Inches Diameter, Suspended
between two ornamental Hemispheres in the middle of the Room, the VOICE
OF A LIVING FEMALE is distinctly heard as if originating in the Centre,
and will answer
QUESTIONS PUT BY ANY PERSON PRESENT,
Or maintain a Conversation, either in Whisper, or in a more
Audible Tone; the Lady will also, if requested, entertain the company
with specimens of
V O C A L M U S I C,
producing a most peculiar Effect
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This LIVING AEROSTAT and its
Incomprehensible Voice,
Form a most impenetrable Puzzle to the inquisitive Mind,
at the same time that conjecture is equally excited by another
singularity attending the
Lady of the Balloon,
who, though herself invisible to the Keenest Eye, seems to be in
the middle of the Assemblage,
and sees every thing that passes in the Room; she is distinctly
heard to breathe, to sigh etc.
and by her answers returned instantaneously to all proper Questions,
THIS MYSTERIOUS INCOGNITA
seems to be in possession of every hint, thought and action of
the Company.
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THE PUBLIC
are respectfully informed, that the general Idea of this
Aeromantic Exhibition
was transmitted from the Continent some months ago,
and is now produced with such Additions and Variations as their Invention
will be found worthy of the Attention of the Curious.
N.B: Ladies and Gentlemen wishing to make Experiments,for
their Amusement, on the general Scientific Principles of the Exhibitions,
will receive every needful Information, and Personal Assistance if required.
Admittance at the LYCEUM One Shilling
Collecteanea, or a Collection of Advertisments and Paragraphs
From the Newspapers Relating to Various Subjects (London: Thomas Kirgate
for Daniel Lyons, n.d.), British Library, 1889 e 5, Vol II, Publick Exhibitions
and Places of Amusement, f. 247v.
Compiled by Steven Connor
as part of The Dumbstruck
Archive, a continuing, online supplement to Dumbstruck: A Cultural
History of Ventriloquism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).