Martinka and Co.'s 1899 "End of Century" magician's catalog. (1899)
Martinka and Company · leaf 107
A real glass bottle, from which differ- ent kinds of liąuors are poured out as desired. . . Price, $10 418. The Surę Hit. (After Mr. H. S. Livingston.) A brass ring is screwed to the back of a chair ; a watch is borrowed and placed with some flower seed into a pistol. On firing it off against the… … empty glasses, the audience being allowed to choose into which glass they would like them re- spectively to appear. The choice having been madę, the performer connects the three pyramids with a piece of ribbon, for the purpose, as he facetiously States, of the winę and water traveling by a capil-…
