The shadows of a great city: A romantic storyWhite, Grace Miller
Philosophy
The shadows of a great city: A romantic story
White, Grace Miller
Fiction
Old Secrets and New Discoveries
CONTAINS INFORMATION OF RARE VALUE FOR ALL CLASSES, IN ALL CONDITIONS
OF SOCIETY.
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This book is a combination of six books, each complete in itself, and
which were formerly published at 25 cents per copy. Following are the
titles of the six books contained in =OLD SECRETS AND NEW DISCOVERIES=:
(=1=) =Old Secrets=;
(=2=) =Secrets for Farmers=;
(=3=) =Preserving Secrets=;
(=4=) =Manufacturing Secrets=;
(=5=) =Secrets for the Housewife=; and
(=6=) =The Secret of Money Getting=, by P. T. Barnum.
=This Book Tells= how to make persons at a distance think of
you--Something all lovers should know.
=It Tells= how you can charm those you meet and make them love you.
=It Tells= how Spiritualists and others can make writing appear on the
arm in blood characters, as performed by Foster and all noted magicians.
=It Tells= how to make a cheap Galvanic Battery; how to plate and gild
without a battery; how to make a candle burn all night; how to make
a clock for 25 cents; how to detect counterfeit money; how to banish
and prevent mosquitoes from biting; how to make yellow butter in
winter; Circassian curling fluid; Sympathetic or Secret Writing Ink;
Cologne Water; Artificial Honey; Stammering; how to make large noses
small; to cure drunkenness; to copy letters without a press; to obtain
fresh-blown flowers in winter; to make good burning candles from lard.
=It Tells= how to make a horse appear as though he was badly foundered;
to make a horse temporarily lame; how to make him stand by his food
and not eat it; how to cure a horse from the crib or sucking wind; how
to put a young countenance on the horse; how to cover up the heaves;
how to make him appear as if he had the glanders; how to make a
true-pulling horse balk; how to nerve a horse that is lame, etc. These
horse secrets are being continually sold at one dollar each.
=It Tells= how to make the Eggs of Pharo’s Serpents, from which, when
lighted, though but the size of a pea, there issues from it a coiling,
hissing serpent, wonderful in length and similarity to a genuine
serpent.
=It Tells= of a simple and ingenious method for copying any kind of
drawing or picture. And more wonderful still, how to print pictures
from the print itself.
=It Tells= how to perform the Davenport Brothers’ “Spirit Mysteries,”
so that any person can astonish an audience, as has been done. Also
scores of other wonderful things which we have no room to mention.
=OLD SECRETS AND NEW DISCOVERIES= contains over 250 solid pages of
reading matter, and is worth $1.50 to any person; but it will be mailed
to any address on receipt of only 25 cents. Postage stamps taken in
payment for it the same as cash. Your money back if book is not as
advertised. Address all orders to
J. S. OGILVIE PUBLISHING COMPANY,
P. O. Box 767. 57 ROSE STREET, NEW YORK.
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OUR ENDEAVOR
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