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 69
this trick is verystartling, for the Coffee-Pot, which at first appears to be empty,may be made to discharge coffee, milk, or coffee and milk togetherat the pleasure of the company. The Gong Poker Tie a piece of strmg, about the substance of whipcord, round thehandle of a poker, leaving the two… … Fia. 14. the hands. In this position place the thumbs and ends ofthe cord as close into each ear as convenient. If now a secondperson strike the poker, the one who holds it will hear a soundvery surprising when experienced for the first time, but scarcelyaudible to the striker. If the blow be a…
Riddles · Amusements
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