Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 448
AND TUMBLER. have been struck, and the copper will fall nicelyinto the tumbler. The spectator may puzzlehis brain for some time before he can solve andsuccessfully perform this truzzle. A second truzzle, very mysterious, is themagic spinning of a coin without evident impact.This sounds impossible,… … THE SPINNER. repeatedly from knuckle to tip,— to producemagnetism, you may say to the onlookers,— andfinally swept quickly off the end of the finger,apparently without touching the coin. Thelatter, however, bounds merrily to the middle ofthe table, and there spins contentedly, as ifof its own…
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