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 65
e it on the top of the water, and press it on the rimof the glass. If this be cleverly done, there will be no air bubblebetween the card and the w^ater; and if the glass be more thanfull, this can be with certainty accomplished. Now dexterouslyturn the glass upside down, keeping the finger on the… … Fia. 11. the water remains m the glass, which is this:—The familiar gur-gling sound, when liquids are poured from a bottle, arises from theair rushing through the liquid, and taking its place in the bottle. NATUEAL MAGIC I OR, EECREATIONS IN SCIENCE. 59 The air which passes into the bottle must be…
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