Magic tricks -- Juvenile literature; Scientific recreations -- Juvenile literature
The Impossible Omelet 147
Go if you can 147
The Figure Puzzle 147
The Visible Invisible 147
The Double Meaning 148
Quite tired out 148
Something out of the Common 148
To rub one Sixpence into two 149
Magic Circle 149
Melange.
Illusions of Touch 153
Illusion of the Taste 154
The General Bleacher 154
Influence of coloured Glass on bulbous Roots 155
The Spinning-top “asleep” 155
To judge of Weights 156
Quicksilver and Oil united 156
To dissolve the Soda in Glass 156
Waterproof Paper 157
To Dissolve Gold or Platinum 157
Colder than Ice 157
Contra-crystallization 157
One and one do not make two 158
To copy Writing instantly 158
The Rival Dials 158
To spin Indian Rubber 158
Indelible Writing 159
Vegetable Anatomy 159
To tell what o’Clock it is by the Moon 160
The Physiognotype 161
Infinite Divisibility of Matter 161
Holding the Breath 162
Sand in the Hour-Glass 162
Resistance of Sand 163
Glass broken by Sand 164
To bleach Ivory 164
Vanishing Shells 164
The Magic Egg 164
The Magic Whirlpool 165
Magic Porcelain 167
A Galvanic Tongue 168
Drinking Porter out of Pewter 168
Electric or Galvanic Preservation 168
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