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 62
lie flame they take fire, each particle burning like astar—producing, in fact, miniature fireworks. Ii:on filings derivedfrom any other source burn in the same way; but we choose theillustration of the combustion of those from a poker, in order toexemplify a fact in the chemistry of every-day… … Fia. reason that Biddy prefers lighting a fire with chips rather thanwith a log of wood. What a Glassful of Water will Hold. It is generally thought that when a vessel is full of water, anysolid substance immersed in it will cause it to overflow, and suchwill be the case if the substance is not…
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