Magic tricks -- Juvenile literature; Scientific recreations -- Juvenile literature
To support a Pea on Air 119
Pyrophorus, or Air-tinder 119
Beauty of a Soap-bubble 120
Why a Guinea falls more quickly than a Feather through the Air 121
Solidity of Air 122
Breathing and Smelling 122
Sleights and Subtleties.
The Ring and the Handkerchief 127
The Knotted Handkerchief 128
The Invisible Springs 130
The Miraculous Apple 131
The Self-balanced Pail 132
The Phantom at command 132
The Miraculous Shilling 134
The Locomotive Shilling 135
The Penetrative Sixpence 136
The Vanishing Sixpence 136
To make a Sixpence balance and spin on its edge on the
point of a Needle 137
The Multiplying Coin 137
The Magic Rat Trap 137
The Velocity of Motion 138
The Exploding Bubble 139
The Magic Picture 139
Artificial Lightning 140
Three objects discernible only with both Eyes 140
To tell by a Watch Dial the Hour when a Person intends to rise 140
To make a Ring suspend by a Thread, after the Thread has
been burned 141
To melt a piece of Money in a Walnut-shell without injuring
the Shell 141
The Magical Mirrors 142
The Enchanted Bottle 143
The Armed Apparition 143
To extract the Silver out of a Ring that is thickly Gilded,
so that the Gold may remain entire 144
Curious Experiment with a Glass of Water 144
A Luminous Bottle, which will show the Hour on a Watch in
the Dark 144
The Wonderful Hat 145
To bring a Person down upon a Feather 145
The Apparent Impossibility 146
An Omelet cooked in a Hat over the Flame of a Candle 146
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