The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 92
comes under the pin-point; the paper is not porous enough to absorb itand no matter what figure be drawn, it will moveaiong the water so as to bring its center of areadirectly under the point. THE POWER OF A BREATH In order to show what force, not figuratively, butactually, a breath has, take a… … in the bag, keeping the mouth tight in the bagso that no air can escape, the upright book willbe tilted and raised and the structure overthrown.It would, of course, be impossible to blow thebook over without the aid of the bag. THE PAPER FISH Cut a fish out of stout writing-paper, and in thecenter…
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