village, New York. At any rate there is the
so-called, ``King of Bees,'' a gentleman from
Pennsylvania, who exhibits himself in a cage
of netting filled with bees, and then sells the
admiring throng a specific for bee-stings and
the wounds of angry wasps. Unfortunately
the only time I ever saw his majesty, some of
his bee actors must have forgotten their lines,
for he was thoroughly stung.



CHAPTER THREE

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.--A ``WONDERFUL
PHENOMENON.''--``THE INCOMBUSTIBLE
SPANIARD, SENOR LIONETTO,'' 1803.
--JOSEPHINE GIRARDELLI, 1814.--JOHN
BROOKS, 1817.--W. C. HOUGHTON, 1832.
--J. A. B. CHYLINSKI, 1841.--CHAMOUNI,
THE RUSSIAN SALAMANDER, 1869.-- PROFESSOR
REL MAEUB, 1876.--RIVALLI (died 1900).

In the nineteenth century by far the most
distinguished heat-resister was Chabert,
who deserves and shall have a chapter to
himself. He commenced exhibiting about 1818,
but even earlier in the century certain obscurer
performers had anticipated some of his best
effects. Among my clippings, for instance, I