Popular pastimes for amusement and instruction : being a standard work on games, plays, magic, and natural phenomena suitable for all occasions : containing parlor games, charming tableaux, tricks of magic, charades and conundrums, curious puzzles, phrenology and mind reading, palmistry or how to read the hand, humorous and pathetic recitations, dialogues, etc., etc. : including the delightful art of entertaining, the whole forming a charming treasury of pastimes for the home, public schools and academies, lodges, social gatherings, Sunday schools, etc., etc. (1901)
Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia : National Publishing Co. · leaf 146
potassium, of the size of apeppercorn (which is about two grains).The potassium will instantly become redhot, with a slight explosion, and burnvividly on the surface of the water, dartingat the same time from one side of the vesselto the other, with great violence, in theform of a red-hot fire… … DECEPTIVE VISION. when he has measured the height care-fully, tell him to walk backwards aboutfive yards, then shut one eye, and walkforward and try to knock the cork off thefork with one blow of the forefinger. Theprobabilities are, that he will make theattempt a dozen times before he is…
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