Magic tricks -- Juvenile literature; Scientific recreations -- Juvenile literature
This must be poured in its liquid state, and before a fire, between
the glasses, by the space left in the sides, and which you are then to
close up. Wipe the glasses clean, and hold them before the fire, to see
that the composition will not run out at any part.
Then fasten with gum a picture or print, painted on very thin paper,
with its face to one of the glasses, and if you like, you may fix the
whole in a frame.
While the mixture between the glasses is cold, the picture will be
quite concealed, but become transparent when held to the fire; and as
the composition cools, it will gradually disappear.
ARTIFICIAL LIGHTNING.
Provide a tin tube that is larger at one end than it is at the other,
and in which there are several holes. Fill this tube with powdered
resin; and when it is shook over the flame of a torch, the reflection
will produce the exact appearance of lightning.
THREE OBJECTS, DISCERNIBLE ONLY WITH BOTH EYES.
If you fix three pieces of paper against the wall of a room at equal
distances, at the height of your eye, placing yourself directly before
them, at a few yards’ distance, and close your right eye, and look at
them with your left, you will see only two of them, suppose the first
and second; alter the position of your eye, and you will see the first
and third; alter your position a second time, you will see the second
and third, but never the whole three together; by which it appears,
that a person who has only one eye can never see three objects placed
in this position, nor all the parts of one object of the same extent,
without altering the situation of his eye.
TO TELL BY A WATCH DIAL THE HOUR WHEN A PERSON INTENDS TO RISE.
The person is told to set the hand of his watch at any hour he pleases,
which hour he tells you; and you add in your own mind 12 to it. You
then desire him to count privately the number of that addition on the
dial, commencing at the next hour to that at which he intends to rise,
and including the hour at which he has placed the hand; which will give
the answer; for example,
A intends to rise at 6 (this he conceals to himself;) he places the
hand at 8, which he tells B, who, in his own mind, adds 12 to 8, which
make 20. B then tells A to count 20 on the dial, beginning at the
next hour to that at which he proposes to rise; which will be 7, and
counting backwards, reckoning each hour as 1, and including in his
addition the number of the hour the hand is placed at, the addition
will end at 6, which is the hour proposed; thus,
The hour the hand is placed at is 8
The next hour to that which A intends to rise at is 7,
which counts for 1
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