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 59
a topy and even goto sleep. Musical Flame. Fit a good cork into a wine bottle ; burn a hole through thecork with a round iron skewer, and into it fix a piece of tobacco-pipe about eight inches long. Put into the bottle about two or threeounces of zinc, in slips, such as the waste cuttings from a… … Fig. 7. at first, but which subsides to a moderate and continuous boilingfor a lengthened period ; as soon as the boiling is regular the cork NATURAL MAGIC ; OR, RECREATIONS IN SCIENCE, 53 with the pipe throiigli it may be inserted into the bottle. If alight be placed to the end of the pipe, a…
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