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 66
out. Ifthe glass, still inverted, be placed on to a tray, the card can beslipped away, and yet no water will flow out. In this way youcan hand a glass of water to a friend, but he cannot remove itwithout spilling the whole. The Balanced Coin. This engraving represents what seems to be an astounding… … Fig. 12. another cork and cut a slit in it so that the edge of the coin willfit into the slit; next place two forks in the cork, as seen in theengraving, and placing the edge of the coin on the needle, it willspin round without falling oflf. The reason is this, that the weight 60 NATURAL MAGIC ;…
Riddles · Amusements
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