Will Rossiter's Original Talkalogues by American Jokers
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Will Rossiter's Original Talkalogues by American Jokers
American wit and humor
=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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AN AUTOMOBILE
[Illustration]
has a fascination for millions of people. There is an exhilaration, a
restful, soothing, satisfying feeling about automobiling for pleasure
that seems different from that achieved in other ways. But it has its
trying, adventurous, and fearful side as well, and so to those who have
experienced these emotions, and to those who would like to experience
them, we heartily recommend the book
THE CAR
AND THE LADY
By GRACE S. MASON and PERCY F. MEGARGEL,
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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