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A regular weekly look-back at some offbeat or interesting stories that have appeared in the Ottawa Citizen over its 175-year history. Today, amazing acrobatics:
On Sept. 9, 1864, The Great Farini, one of the world’s most accomplished acrobats, amazed Ottawa and Hull residents as he crossed the dangerous Chaudière Falls on a tightrope, blindfolded, in a sack and with baskets on his feet.
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Signor Guillermo Farini was, in fact, 25-year-old Port Hope, Ont. native William Hunt, and two performances were scheduled for that Friday, at 3 and 9 p.m.