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 82
and break the glass; pour upon it a gilland a half of water, and place the whole over a tea-kettle lamp, orany common lamp, filled with spirits of wine; light the wick, whichshould be about half an inch from the flask; and as soon as thewater is boiling hot, streams of fire, resembling sky-rockets,… … Fig. 24. imitation of the aurora borealis will commence, and graduallyascend until this collects into a pointed cone at the mouth of theflask; when this has continued for half a minute, blow out theflame of the lamp, and the apex of fire that was formed at themouth of the flask, will rush down,…
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