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Sleight of Hand Tricks.
The Flying Dime, 3
The Flying Dime, (another method,) 4
The Beads and Strings, 5
To get a Ring out of a Handkerchief, 5
To tie a Knot in a Handkerchief which Cannot be drawn Tight, 6
The Three Cups, 7
To tie a Handkerchief round your Leg, and get it off Without Untying the Knot, 8
The Magic Bond, 8
The Old Man and his Chair, 8
To tie a Knot on the Left Wrist, without letting the right hand approach it, 10
The Magic Handcuffs, 11
To pull a String through your Button-hole, 11
The Cut String Restored, 12
The Gordian Knot, 12
The Knot Loosened, 13
To Conjure Nuts in your Ear, 13
To Crack Walnuts in your Elbow, 14
To Take Feathers out of an Empty Handkerchief, 14
The Knotted Handkerchief, 14
Houdin's Nut Trick, 16
Conjuring a Ring, 17
The Erratic Egg, 18
The Obedient Dime, 19
The Prisoner Released, 19
Advantageous Wager, 19
The Double Meaning, 20
The Three Spoons, 20
The Juggler's Joke, 20
To Cause Water and Wine to Change Places, 21
The Wizard's Wit, or Is it Possible, 21
The Toper's Stratagem, 21
The Impossible Omelet, 21
New Perpetual Rotary Motion, 22
The Miraculous Apple, 22
An Omelet Cooked in a Hat, 23
The Infallible Prophet, 23
Philosophy Cheated, 24
The Disappearing Dime, 26
The Hat and Die Trick, 27
The Penetrative Cents, 27
The Doll Trick, 29
The Flying Coins, 30
The Vanished Half Dime, 30
The Restored Document, 30
The Magic Rings, 31
The Fish and Ink Trick, 32
The Hat and Cannon Ball Trick, 32
The Dime in the Ball of Cotton, 33
The Egg and Bag Trick, 33
The Dancing Egg, 34
The Bell and Shot Trick, 34
The Burned Handkerchief Restored, 35
The Fire Eater, 35
The Egg Box Trick, 36
The Globe Box Trick, 36
The Coffee Trick, 37
The Handkerchief Trick, 38
The Magic Funnel, 41
The Magic Bottle, 41
The Bottle Trick, 42
The Magic Quarter, 44
To change a Dime to a Quarter, 44
Wyman's Gun Trick, 46
The Hatched Bird, 46
The Apple and Orange Trick, 47
A Magician's Box Explained, 47
The Enchanted Coin, 48
The Mysterious Coin, or How to Make Dollars pass through a Wine Glass, a China Plate, a Table, and fall into the Hand, 49
The Egyptian Fluids, or Impossibilities Accomplished, 50
The Magician's Snow Ball, 51
The Magnetized Cane, 52
Wyman's Mode of performing the Egg Bag Trick, 52
The Dancing Automaton, 354
The Invisible Springs, 355
The Flight of the Ring, 356
The Magic Book, 360
The Tape Trick, 360
The Knotted Thread, 361
The Transposable Pieces, 362
Tricks and Deceptions with Cards.
To Make the Pass, 55
To Tell a Card by its Back, 55
The Card named without being seen, 56
The Card told by an Opera Glass, 56
The Four Kings, 58
The Four Accomplices, 58
To Tell the Card thought of, in a Circle of Ten, 59
To guess the Card thought of, 59
To tell the number of Cards by Weight, 60
Audacity, 61
The Card found at the second guess, 61
The Card found under the Hat, 61
To call the Cards out of the Pack, 61
Heads and Tails, 62
The Surprise, 62
The Revolution, 63
The Slipped Card, 63
The Nailed Card, 63
To ascertain the number of Points on three unseen Cards, 64
To tell the numbers on two unseen Cards, 64
>The Knaves and the Constable, 64
The Pairs Re-paired, 65
The Queens Digging for Diamonds, 66
The Triple Deal, 67
The Quadruple Deal, 67
The Card Discovered by the Touch or Smell, 67
The Ingenious Confederacy, 67
Hold it Fast, 69
The Charmed Twelve, 69
The Trick of "Thirty-one," 70
To tell the Names of the Cards by their Weight, 71
The Cards in the Vase, 73
The Metamorphosis, 74
To hold Four Kings, or Four Knaves in your Hand, and to Change them suddenly into Blank Cards, and then to Four Aces, 76
To Change a Card in a Person's Hand, 76
The Card in the Egg, 77
The Fifteen Thousand Livres, 78
Hints to Amateurs, 79
Cure for Troublesome Spectators, 80
To make a Card jump out of the Pack, 357
The Tell-Tale Cards, 357
The Double Dozen, 358
The Housebreakers, 359
The Magic of Chemistry.
Sympathetic or Invisible Inks, 84
The Silver Tree, 85
Cleopatra's Pearls, 86
Wonderful Experiments in Combustion, 86
Mimic Rain, 86
Marine Illumination, 87
The Mimic Explosion, 88
The Shower of Fire, 88
The Magical Heat, 88
The Magic Lamp, 89
Surprising Experiments with Potassium, 89
The Water Demon, 89
A Flame produced with Ice, 89
The Chemical Chimney Sweep, 90
The Magical Illumination, 90
The Chemical Chameleon, 91
Crystallizations of Metals, 92
Beauties of Crystallization, 93
To Crystallize Camphor, 93
To do. Tin, 94
Crystals in Hard Water, 94
Varieties of Crystals, 94
A Liquid Changed to a Solid, and Heat from Crystallization, 94
Beautiful Experiment, 95
A Solid Changed to a Liquid, and intense Cold from the Liquefaction, 95
Magic of Heat, 95
Sublimation by Heat, 96
Heat Passing through Glass, 96
Metals unequally Influenced by Heat, 97
Spontaneous Combustion, 97
Inequality of Heat in Fire Irons, 97
Expansion of Metal by Heat, 97
Evaporation of a Metal, 98
A Floating Metal on Fire, 98
Ice Melted by Air, 98
Splendid Sublimation, 98
Magic Inks, 98
Chameleon Liquids, 99
The Magic Dyes, 99
Wine Changed into Water, 99
Two colorless Transparent Liquids become Black and Opaque, 100
Two colorless Fluids, Make a colored one, 100
Change of Color, by colorless Fluids, 100
To Change Blue Liquid to White, 100
Veritable "Black" Tea, 100
Restoration of Color by Water, 101
Two Liquids Make a Solid, 101
Two Solids Make a Liquid, 101
A Solid, Opaque Mass, Makes a Transparent Liquid, 101
Two cold Liquids Make a Hot one, 101
Quintuple Transmutation, 102
The Same Agent may Produce and Destroy Color, 102
Union of two Metals without Heat, 102
Magic Breath, 102
Two Bitters Make a Sweet, 103
Visible and Invisible, 103
To Form a Liquid of two Solids, 103
The Spectral Lamp, 104
Curious Change of Colors, 105
The Protean Light, 105
The Chameleon Flowers, 105
To Change the Colors of Flowers, 105
Changes of the Poppy, 106
Changes of the Rose, 106
Light changing White into Black, 106
The Visibly Growing Acorn, 106
Colored Flames, 107
Orange colored Flame, 107
Emerald Green Flame, 107
Instantaneous Flame, 107
To Cool Flame by Metal, 108
Proof that Flame is Hollow, 108
To Hold a Hot Tea Kettle on the Hand, 108
Incombustible Linen, 108
The Burning Circle, 108
Water of different Temperatures in the same Vessel, 109
Warmth of Different Colors, 109
Substitute for Fire, 109
Laughing Gas, 109
Flame from Cold Metals, 110
Phosphorus in Chlorine, 110
Magic Vapor, 111
Gas from the Union of Metals, 111
Camphor Sublimated by Flame, 111
Green Fire, 111
Brilliant Red Fire, 112
Purple Fire, 112
Silver Fire, 112
Fiery Fountain, 112
Combustion without Flame, 112
Combustion of Three Metals, 113
To Make Paper Apparently Incombustible, 113
Heat not to be estimated by Touch, 113
Flame upon Water, 113
Rose Colored Flame upon Water, 113
To Set a Mixture on Fire by Water, 114
Waves of Fire on Water, 114
Water from the Flame of a Candle, 114
Formation of Water by Fire, 114
Boiling upon Cold Water, 114
Currents in Boiling Water, 114
Hot Water Lighter than Cold, 115
Expansion of Water by Cold, 115
The Cup of Tantalus, 115
The Magic Whirlpool, 116
Artificial Fire Balls, 117
To Melt Steel as Easily as Lead, 118
To Tell a Lady if She is in Love, 118
To put an Egg in a Phial, 118
To Astonish a Large Party, 118
Magical Test Papers, 119
Infinite Divisibility, 119
Chemistry an Agent in Secret Writing, 327
To Melt a Piece of Money in a Walnut Shell, without Injuring the Shell, 355
The Pyramid of Alum, 354
Experiments in Electricity.
The Rotary Tobacco Pipe, 123
The Erratic Feather, 123
The Attractive Sealing Wax, 124
The Unneighborly Balls, 124
The Electrified Paper, 124
The Sociable Feather, 124
The Eccentric Feather, 124
The Discontented Pith Ball, 124
The Dancing Bran, 124
The Electrical Cat, 124
Electrical Shock from a Sheet of Paper, 125
Light under Water, 126
Simple means of Producing Electricity, 126
Attraction and Repulsion Exhibited, 127
How to Make an Electrical Machine, 127
Conductor, 128
The Plate Electrical Machine, 129
How to Draw Sparks from the Tip of the Nose, 129
How to Get a Jar full of Electricity, 129
The Electrical Battery, 130
Dancing Balls and Dolls, 131
The Electrical Kiss, 131
Ringing Bells, 131
Working Power of Electricity, 132
The Electrified Wig, 132
Imitation Thunder Clouds, 133
The Lightning Stroke Imitated, 133
The Sportsman, 134
Experiments in Galvanism.
Singular Galvanic Shock, 135
The Flash of Light, 135
The Magical Cup, 135
The Prisoner Leech, 136
The Metamorphosed Knife, 136
With Plates in Water, 136
To Make a Magnet by Galvanism, 137
Effects of Galvanism on a Magnet, 137
Change of Color by Galvanism, 137
The Galvanic Shock, 138
A Galvanic Tongue, 138
Influence of Galvanism on Porter and Ale, 188
The Galvanized Flounder, 188
Experiments in Magnetism.
The Impromptu Magnet, 139
The Merry Iron Filings, 140
Test of Magnetic Power, 140
To Make Artificial Magnets, 140
How to Magnetize a Poker, 140
To Show Magnetic Attraction and Repulsion, 141
Variation of the Needle, 141
Dip of the Needle, 141
To Suspend a Needle in the Air, by Magnetism, 141
Magnetism by Hammering, 142
Power of the Electro-Magnet, 142
The Mariner's Compass, 142
To Make Artificial Magnets without the Aid of either Natural Loadstone, or Artificial Magnets, 143
The Watch Magnetized, 144
North and South Poles of the Magnet, 144
Polarity of the Magnet, 144
Magnetic Action and Reaction, 145
To Pass Magnetism through a Table, 145
The Magnetic Table, 145
Interesting Particulars Concerning the Magnet, 145
Exaggerated Magnetism, 146
The Magic of Pneumatics and Aerostatics.
Weight of the Air Proved by a Pair of Bellows, 148
The Pressure of Air Shown by a Wine Glass, 148
The Pressure of Air Shown by a Glass Jar, 148
Elasticity of the Air, 149
The Air Pump, 149
To Prove that Air has Weight, 150
To Prove Air Elastic, 150
Air in the Egg, 150
The Descending Smoke, 151
Half Eagle and Feather, 151
The Soundless Bell, 152
The Floating Fish, 152
The Mysterious Circles, 152
The Diving Bell, 154
The Air Balloon, 154
How to Make an Air Balloon, 155
How to Fill a Balloon, 156
To Make Fire Balloons, 156
The Mysterious Bottle, 157
How to Make a Parachute, 157
Caoutchouc Balloons, 157
The Bacchus Experiment, 362
The Magic of Optics.
Light as an Effect, 159
Refraction, 159
The Invisible Coin Made Visible, 159
The Multiplying Glass, 160
Transparent Bodies, 160
The Prism, 160
To Make a Prism, 161
Composition of Light, 161
A Natural Camera Obscura, 162
Bullock's Eyes Experiment, 162
The Camera Obscura, 162
The Magic Lantern, 163
The Camera Lucida, 164
Painting the Slides, 164
To Exhibit the Magic Lantern, 164
Effects of the Magic Lantern, 165
Tempest at Sea, 165
The Phantasmagoria, 166
Dissolving Views, 167
How to Raise a Ghost, 167
The Thaumatrope, 168
The Bird in the Cage, 168
Construction of the Phantasmascope, 168
Curious Optical Illusion, 169
Another, 170
Another, 170
The Picture in the Air, 171
Breathing Light and Darkness, 171
To Show what Rays of Light do not Obstruct each other, 172
To See through a Philadelphia Brick, 172
The Stereoscope, 173
Ocular Spectra, 175
Brilliant Water Mirror, 175
Optics of a Soap Bubble, 176
The Kaleidoscope, 176
Simple Solar Microscope, 177
Anamorphoses, 178
The Cosmorama, 180
Distorted Landscapes, 180
The Magic Coin, 181
The Magician's Mirror, 344
The Perspective Mirror, 345
The Artificial Landscape, 348
The Boundless Prospect, 350
The Enchanted Palace, 352
Tricks in Mechanics.
Importance of Mechanics, 182
The Laws of Motion, 182
Experiment of the Law of Motion, 182
Balancing, 183
The Prancing Horse, 183
To Construct a Figure, which, being Placed on a Curved Surface, and Inclined in any Position, shall, when left to itself, Return to its Former Position, 183
To Make a Carriage Run in an Inverted Position, without Falling, 183
To Cause a Cylinder to Roll of its own Weight, up Hill, 184
The Balanced Stick, 184
The Chinese Mandarin, 184
To Make a Quarter Dollar Turn on its Edge on the Point of a Needle, 184
The Self-Balanced Pail, 185
To Lift a Bottle with a Straw, 185
The Dancing Pea, 186
The Toper's Tripod, 186
The Magical Snake, or the Obliquity of Motion, 187
The Bridge of Knives, 187
Sand in the Hour Glass, 188
Resistance of Sand, 188
The Magical Gyroscope, 346
Tricks in Hydraulics and Hydrostatics.
The Science of Hydraulics, 189
The Fountain and Pump, 189
The Hydraulic Dancer, 190
The Syphon, 191
The Water Snail, or Archimedean Screw, 191
The Bottle Ejectment, 192
The Magic of Hydrostatics with the Ancients, 192
To Empty a Glass under Water, 192
The Mysterious Bottle, 157
Boiling upon Cold Water, 114
Currents in Boiling Water, 114
Hot Water Lighter than Cold, 115
Expansion of Water by Cold, 115
The Magic Whirlpool, 116
The Cup of Tantalus, 115
To Weigh Water without Scales, 353
More than Full, 361
Tricks in Acoustics.
The Science of Acoustics, 193
Difference between Sound and Noise, 193
Visible Vibration, 193
Transmitted Vibration, 194
Double Vibration, 194
Champagne and Sound, 194
Music of the Snail, 195
The Tuning Fork a Flute Player, 195
Musical Bottles, 195
Theory of Whispering, 195
Theory of the Voice, 196
To Tune a Guitar without the Assistance of the Ear, 196
Progress of Sound, 196
To Make an Æolian Harp, 196
The Invisible Girl, 197
Magic of Acoustics with the Ancients, 198
The Secret of Ventriloquism, 81
To Show how Sound Travels through a Solid, 198
To Show that Sound depends upon Vibration, 198
Musical Figures Resulting from Sound, 357
The Magic of Numbers, or Curious Tricks in Arithmetic.
Aphorisms of Number, 199
Palpable Arithmetic, 200
The Abacus, 201
Napier's Rods, 202
The Arithmetical Boomerang, 203
To Find a Number Thought of, 203
Second Method, 204
Third Method, 205
Fourth do., 205
Fifth do., 206
Sixth do., 206
To Discover two or more Numbers that a Person has Thought of, 206
How many Counters have I in my Hands? 207
The Mysterious Halvings, to tell a Number a Person has Thought of, 208
Second Method, 209
Who Wears the Ring? 211
What is Probable? 212
Variations, 213
Amusing Combinations, 214
The Visitors to the Crystal Palace, 217
How many Changes can be Given to Seven Notes of a Piano? 217
The Arithmetical Triangle, 217
How many Different Deals can be made with Thirteen Cards out of Fifty-two, 218
The Three Graces, 218
Second Method, 219
Third Method, 220
The Fortunate Ninth, 221
The Ten Ten's, 222
Dividing the Beer, 223
The Difficult Case of Wine, 224
Decimation of Fruit, 224
The Wine and the Tables, 225
The Three Travelers, 225
What Counter has been Thought of out of Sixteen, 226
Magic Squares, 227
Odd Magic Squares, 227
The Square of Gotham, 229
The Mathematical Blacksmith, 230
Curious Properties of some Figures, 230
The Industrious Frog, 234
The Council of Ten, 235
The Two Travelers, 235
Arithmetical Trick, 237
The Money Trick, 237
The Philosopher's Pupils, 237
To Discover a Square Number, 238
The Sheep, and the Sheep Fold, 238
The Countrywoman and the Eggs, 238
To Rub out Twenty Chalks at Five Times, Rubbing out every Time an Odd one, 239
The Impossible Triangle, 239
Odd or Even, 239
The Figures, up to 100, arranged as to make 505 in each Column, when Counted in Ten Columns Perpendicularly, and the Same when Counted in Ten Files Horizontally, 240
The Old Woman and Her Eggs, 240
The Mathematical Fortune Teller, 241
The Dice Guessed Unseen, 242
The Sovereign and the Sage, 242
The Knowing Shepherd, 243
The Certain Game, 243
The Astonished Farmer, 244
The Magical Century, 244
The Hatter Cheated, 245
The Basket of Nuts, 245
The United Digits, 246
December and May, 246
The Two Drovers, 246
The Basket and Stones, 246
The Famous Forty-Five, 247
Trick in Subtraction, 247
The Expunged Figure, 247
The Mysterious Addition, 248
To tell at what Hour a Person Intends to rise, 249
To find the Difference between Two Numbers, the Greater of which is Unknown, 249
The Magic Remainder, 250
A Person having an equal Number of Counters, or Pieces of Money, in each Hand, to find how many he has altogether, 250
The Three Jealous Husbands, 251
The False Scales, 251
The Apple Woman, 252
The Graces and Muses, 252
The Jesuitical Teacher, 252
Nine Quaint Questions, 253
The Fox, Goose and Corn, 253
Multiplying Money by Money, 253
The Unfair Division, 255
A Popular Fallacy, 255
Curious Tricks in Geometry.
The Inventor of Geometry, 256
Geometrical Definitions, 256
The Five Geometrical Solids, 257
How to Make Five Squares into a large one without any Waste of Stuff, 258
Deceptive Vision, 258
The Carpenter Puzzled, 259
The Bricklayer Puzzled, 260
Triangular Problem, 260
To Form a Square, 261
Squaring the Circle, 262
The Perplexed Cabinet Maker, 277
Curious and Amusing Puzzles.
Alexander the Great's Puzzle, 266
The Chinese Cross, 266
The Parallelogram, 267
The Divided Garden, 267
The Endless String, 267
Chinese Maze, the Willow Pattern Plate, 268
The Vertical Line Puzzle, 268
The Three Rabbits, 269
The Accommodating Square, 269
The Circle Puzzle, 269
The Cardboard Puzzle, 269
The Button Puzzle, 269
The Quarto Puzzle, 269
The Puzzle of Fourteen, 270
The Square and Circle Puzzle, 270
The Scale and Ring Puzzle, 270
The Heart Puzzle, 271
The Cross Puzzle, 272
The Yankee Square, 272
The Card Puzzle, 272
The Three Square Puzzle, 273
The Cylinder Puzzle, 273
The Four Tenants, 273
The Puzzle Wall, 274
The Twenty-Four Nuns, 274
The Horse Shoe Puzzle, 274
The Card Square, 275
The Dog Puzzle, 275
Puzzle of the Two Fathers, 275
The Triangular Puzzle, 276
Cutting out a Cross, 276
Another Cross Puzzle, 276
The Fountain Puzzle, 276
The Puzzle of the Stars, 277
The Counter Puzzle, 277
Japan Square Puzzle, 277
The Cabinet Maker's Puzzle, 277
String and Balls Puzzle, 277
Double Headed Puzzle, 278
Arithmetical Puzzle, 278
Grammatical Puzzle, 278
The Tree Puzzle, 279
Puzzling Epitaph, 279
Curious Letter, 279
A Puzzling Inscription, 279
Puzzling Kings, 279
The Knight's Puzzle, 283
Another Method, 284
Another Method, 287
Rosamond's Bower, 287
The Labyrinth, 288
The Chinese Puzzle, 289
Trouble-Wit, 290
Answers to Puzzles.
The Chinese Cross, 291
The Parallelogram, 291
The Divided Garden, 292
The Endless String, 292
Chinese Maze, 292
The Vertical Line Puzzle, 293
The Three Rabbits, 293
The Accommodating Square, 293
The Circle Puzzle, 293
The Cut Card Puzzle, 294
The Button Puzzle, 294
The Quarto Puzzle, 294
The Puzzle of Fourteen, 294
The Square and Circle Puzzle, 295
The Scale and Ring Puzzle, 295
The Heart Puzzle, 295
The Cross Puzzle, 295
The Yankee Square, 295
The Card Puzzle, 296
The Three Square Puzzle, 296
The Cylinder Puzzle, 296
The Four Tenants, 296
The Puzzle Wall, 297
The Twenty-Four Nuns, 297
The Horse Shoe Puzzle, 297
The Card Square, 297
The Dog Puzzle, 298
The Two Fathers, 298
The Triangular Puzzle, 298
Cutting out a Cross, 299
Another Cross Puzzle, 299
The Fountain Puzzle, 299
The Star Puzzle, 300
The Counter Puzzle, 300
Japan Square Puzzle, 300
Cabinet Maker's Puzzle, 300
String and Balls Puzzle, 301
Double Headed Puzzle, 301
Arithmetical Puzzle, 301
Grammatical Puzzle, 301
The Tree Puzzle, 301
Puzzling Epitaph, 302
A Curious Letter, 302
A Puzzling Inscription, 302
The Magic of Art.
To Trace an Oval, 303
An Endless Source of Amusement, 303
The Magic of the Oval, 303
Variations of the Oval, 304
What may be done with a Square, 305
How to make a Circle, 306
Importance of the Circle in Drawing, 307
Variation of the Square and Circle, 307
Importance of the Triangle, 308
How to Construct a Triangle, 309
The Triangle Works Wonders in Perspective, 310
Exaggerated Drawing, 311
The Parallelogram and Triangle in Combination, 312
Two Parallelograms in Combination, 312
Magic of the Parallelogram, 313
The Secret of Comic Drawing, 313
Caricature Sketching, 314
Simple Elements of the Profile, 315
Comic Profiles, 316
"Punch," and "Mother Hubbard," 316
Comical Beards, 316
The Human Figure, 317
Proportions of the Human Figure, 318
Standard Height of the Body, 318
Comical Drawing of the Human Figure, 319
The Centre of Gravity, 320
A Central Line through Everything, 320
The Curved Line Pervades all Nature, 321
The Droll Landscape, 323
Attitude Formed upon the Curved Line, 324
How to Draw upon Glass, for Magic Lantern Slides, 325
The Magic of Secret Writing.
The Art of Secret Writing very Ancient, 326
Various Modes of Communicating Secret Intelligence, 327
Chemistry an Agent in Secret Writing, 327
Ingenious Mode of Secret Writing, 328
The Chiffre Indéchiffrable, 328
A Lock for Mr. Hobbs to Pick, 330
The Circular Cypher, 331
Another Method, 332
The Musical Cypher, 333
The Magic of Strength.
Mechanical Inventions of the Ancients few in Number, 334
Ancient and Modern Feats of Strength, 334
Feats of Eckeberg particularly described, 335
One Man Drawing against Two Horses, 335
Breaking the Rope, 336
The Anvil Feat, 336
Breaking Stones, 337
The Chair Feat, 337
The Knee Feat, 338
The Cannon Feat, 338
Twisting Iron Bars, 339
General Explanation on all the Above Feats, 339
Real Feats of Strength Performed by Thomas Topham, 340
Remarkable Power of Lifting Heavy Persons when the Lungs are Inflated, 341
Pyramids of Men, 342
Miscellaneous Curious Tricks and Fancies.
An Artificial Memory, 343
The Magician's Mirror, 344
The Perspective Mirror, 345
The Magical Gyroscope, 346
Artificial Landscape, 348
Easy and Curious Method of Foretelling Rainy or Fine Weather, 349
The Magical Measure, 350
The Boundless Prospect, 350
The Magical Watch Lamp, 352
The Hour of the Day or Night told by a Suspended Shilling, 351
The Enchanted Palace, 352
To Know which of Two Different Waters is the Lightest, without any Scales, 353
To Know if a Suspicious Piece of Money is Good or Bad, 353
The Pyramid of Alum, 354
The Dancing Automaton, 354
To Melt a Piece of Money in a Walnut Shell without Injuring the Shell, 355
The Invisible Springs, 355
The Flight of the Ring, 356
Musical Figures resulting from Sound, 357
To Make a Card Jump out of the Pack, 357
The Tell-Tale Cards, 357
The Double Dozen, 358
The Housebreakers, 359
The Magic Book, 360
The Tape Trick, 360
More than Full, 361
Floating Needles, 361
The Knotted Thread, 361
The Bacchus Experiment, 362
Curious Method of Measuring the Height of a Tree, 362
The Transposable Pieces, 362