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 73
ll one. For this and several other experiments a quart bell-glass is very useful, but being expensive they are not found inevery parlor laboratory; one is, however, easily made from a greenglass pickle bottle : get a glazier to cut off the bottom, and youhave a bell-glass that Chilton would not… … Fig. 18. This seems easy enough, but it may be tried for hours without suc-ceeding. It is, however, to be done by blowing sharply on thetable at some distance from the card. An Amusing Recreation. The possibility of putting a bulk so large as twenty quarters,weighing four ounces, into a wine-glass…
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