Book of riddles and five hundred home amusements : containing a choice and curious collection of riddles, charades, enigmas, rebuses, anagrams, transpositions, conundrums, amusing puzzles, queer sleights, recreations in arithmetic, fireside games, and natural magic, embracing entertaining amusements in magnetism, chemistry, second sight, and simple recreations in science for family and social pastime (1863)
Frikell, Wiljalba, 1818-1903, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 52
oodRiddles. T^A.T^T IT NATURAL MAGIC; OR, RECREATIONS IN SCIENCEEMBRACING CURIOUS AMUSEMENTS IN MAGNE-TISM, MECHANICS, ACOUSTICS, CHEMISTRY, HY-DRAULICS, AND OPTICS. Fireside Mesmerism, Take a gold ring—the more massive the better—but your wifeswedding-ring will do, if you are so lucky as to have… … Fig. 1. of the table, on which you rest your elbow to steady your hand.Hold your finger horizontally, with the thumb thrown back as faras possible from the rest of the hand. 46 NATURAL MAGIC ; OR, RECREATIONS IN SCIENCE, If there be notliing on the table, the ring will soon becomestationary. Then…
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