The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 89
you think of being asked to drive a needlecompletely through a copper coin? Impossible?Well, it does seem so, and yet it may be donewithout hurting the needle in the least. As for the method: First you select a cork atrifle shorter than the needle you mean to use.Push the needle through this cork… … THE COINS IN A TRIANGLE a rigid surface, strike it a fairly hard blow with ahammer. Examine the result, and profit by whatyou see. Having now tested the brain and hand, sup- TRICKS AND MAGIC 75 pose an eye-test be attempted. Here is a formof optical delusion which shows how very diffi-cult it is to…
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