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 58
s fall.The pure water will then float upon the brine ; and, in appearance,the two liquids will seem but as one. Now, take another glass,and fill it with common water. If an egg be put into this, it willinstantly sink to the bottom, see Fig. 6 ; but if, on the contrary,the egg is put into the glass… … Fig. 5.
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