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 71
usingly. Geta piece of wood, about two inches long; cut one end of it into theform of a mans head and shoulders, and let the other end taperotf to a fine point. Next, furnish the little gentleman with a pairof wafters, shaped like oars, instead of arms ; but they must bemore than double the length… … in the centre, lie will stand upriglit, as seen in tlie engraving. Byblowing on the wafters lie may be made to turn round very quickly.It is explained by the reasons that were given in the experimentof the Balanced Coin. Fire by Percussion. Take a hollow cylinder, somewhat like the common syringe,…
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