The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.

When I go up to Wisconsin, I'll try to make everyone proud.

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

I have made compacts with fourteen different persons that whichever of us died first would communicate with the other if it were possible, but I have never received a word.

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.