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 64
ather in every part, and a heated glass will be apt to crack whenit comes in contact with wet leather. Magic Milk. Lime water is quite transparent, and clear as common springwater, but if we breathe or blow into it, the bright liquid becomesopalescent and as white as milk. The best way to try this… … the clear lime-water may be poured off from the sediment. Nowfill a wine-glass or tumbler with the lime water thus mado, and 3* 58 NATURAL MAGIC ; OR, RECREATIONS IN SCIENCE. blow tlirougli the liquid with a glass tube, a piece of new tobacco-pipe, or a clean straw, and in the course of a minute or…
Riddles · Amusements
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