The magician's own book, or The whole art of conjuring (1862)
Arnold, George, 1834-1865, Cahill, Frank · New York, Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 202
i NEEDLE. Take a bottle, with a cork in its neck, and in it, in a per- TRICKS h\ MECHANICS. 185 pendicular position, a middle-sized needle.Fix a quarter dollar into another cork, bycutting a nick in it ; and stick into thesame cork two small table-forks, oppositeeach other, with the handles… … THE SELP-BALAKCED PAtt. You lay a stick across the table, letting one thiid of itproject over the edge ; and you undertake to hang a pail ofwater on it, without either fastening the stick on tiie table,or letting the pail rest on any support ; and this (eat thelaws of gravitation will enable you…
Magic tricks
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