The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 82
issing Arab from the cone. A trip in Africa followed, then a stormy voy-age to France, and Houdins career as a publicperformer was at an end. He died in 1871. Before the day of Robert-Houdin most pro-fessors of white magic were mere mountebanks;this Frenchman made the prestidigitateur agentleman… … & ■> £> TWELVE TRICKS WORTH TRYING HOW TO LIGHT A CANDLE WITHOUTTOUCHING IT Having allowed a candle to burn till it has a longsnuff, blow it out suddenly. A wreath of smokewill ascend into the air. Now if a lighted matchis put to the smoke at a distance of three or fourinches from the…
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