PAGESleight of Hand Tricks.The Flying Dime,3The Flying Dime, (another method,)4The Beads and Strings,5To get a Ring out of a Handkerchief,5To tie a Knot in a Handkerchief which Cannot be drawn Tight,6The Three Cups,7To tie a Handkerchief round your Leg, and get it off Without Untying the Knot,8The Magic Bond,8The Old Man and his Chair,8To tie a Knot on the Left Wrist, without letting the right hand approach it,10The Magic Handcuffs,11To pull a String through your Button-hole,11The Cut String Restored,12The Gordian Knot,12The Knot Loosened,13To Conjure Nuts in your Ear,13To Crack Walnuts in your Elbow,14To Take Feathers out of an Empty Handkerchief,14The Knotted Handkerchief,14Houdin's Nut Trick,16Conjuring a Ring,17The Erratic Egg,18The Obedient Dime,19The Prisoner Released,19Advantageous Wager,19The Double Meaning,20The Three Spoons,20The Juggler's Joke,20To Cause Water and Wine to Change Places,21The Wizard's Wit, or Is it Possible,21The Toper's Stratagem,21The Impossible Omelet,21New Perpetual Rotary Motion,22The Miraculous Apple,22An Omelet Cooked in a Hat,23The Infallible Prophet,23Philosophy Cheated,24The Disappearing Dime,26The Hat and Die Trick,27The Penetrative Cents,27The Doll Trick,29The Flying Coins,30The Vanished Half Dime,30The Restored Document,30The Magic Rings,31The Fish and Ink Trick,32The Hat and Cannon Ball Trick,32The Dime in the Ball of Cotton,33The Egg and Bag Trick,33The Dancing Egg,34The Bell and Shot Trick,34The Burned Handkerchief Restored,35The Fire Eater,35The Egg Box Trick,36The Globe Box Trick,36The Coffee Trick,37The Handkerchief Trick,38The Magic Funnel,41The Magic Bottle,41The Bottle Trick,42The Magic Quarter,44To change a Dime to a Quarter,44Wyman's Gun Trick,46The Hatched Bird,46The Apple and Orange Trick,47A Magician's Box Explained,47The Enchanted Coin,48The Mysterious Coin, or How to Make Dollars pass through a Wine Glass,a China Plate, a Table, and fall into the Hand,49The Egyptian Fluids, or Impossibilities Accomplished,50The Magician's Snow Ball,51The Magnetized Cane,52Wyman's Mode of performing the Egg Bag Trick,52The Dancing Automaton,354The Invisible Springs,355The Flight of the Ring,356The Magic Book,360The Tape Trick,360The Knotted Thread,361The Transposable Pieces,362Tricks and Deceptions with Cards.To Make the Pass,55To Tell a Card by its Back,55The Card named without being seen,56The Card told by an Opera Glass,56The Four Kings,58The Four Accomplices,58To Tell the Card thought of, in a Circle of Ten,59To guess the Card thought of,59To tell the number of Cards by Weight,60Audacity,61The Card found at the second guess,61The Card found under the Hat,61To call the Cards out of the Pack,61Heads and Tails,62The Surprise,62The Revolution,63The Slipped Card,63The Nailed Card,63To ascertain the number of Points on three unseen Cards,64To tell the numbers on two unseen Cards,64>The Knaves and the Constable,64The Pairs Re-paired,65The Queens Digging for Diamonds,66The Triple Deal,67The Quadruple Deal,67The Card Discovered by the Touch or Smell,67The Ingenious Confederacy,67Hold it Fast,69The Charmed Twelve,69The Trick of "Thirty-one,"70To tell the Names of the Cards by their Weight,71The Cards in the Vase,73The Metamorphosis,74To hold Four Kings, or Four Knaves in your Hand, and toChange them suddenly into Blank Cards, and then to Four Aces,76To Change a Card in a Person's Hand,76The Card in the Egg,77The Fifteen Thousand Livres,78Hints to Amateurs,79Cure for Troublesome Spectators,80To make a Card jump out of the Pack,357The Tell-Tale Cards,357The Double Dozen,358The Housebreakers,359The Magic of Chemistry.Sympathetic or Invisible Inks,84The Silver Tree,85Cleopatra's Pearls,86Wonderful Experiments in Combustion,86Mimic Rain,86Marine Illumination,87The Mimic Explosion,88The Shower of Fire,88The Magical Heat,88The Magic Lamp,89Surprising Experiments with Potassium,89The Water Demon,89A Flame produced with Ice,89The Chemical Chimney Sweep,90The Magical Illumination,90The Chemical Chameleon,91Crystallizations of Metals,92Beauties of Crystallization,93To Crystallize Camphor,93To do. Tin,94Crystals in Hard Water,94Varieties of Crystals,94A Liquid Changed to a Solid, and Heat from Crystallization,94Beautiful Experiment,95A Solid Changed to a Liquid, and intense Cold from the Liquefaction,95Magic of Heat,95Sublimation by Heat,96Heat Passing through Glass,96Metals unequally Influenced by Heat,97Spontaneous Combustion,97Inequality of Heat in Fire Irons,97Expansion of Metal by Heat,97Evaporation of a Metal,98A Floating Metal on Fire,98Ice Melted by Air,98Splendid Sublimation,98Magic Inks,98Chameleon Liquids,99The Magic Dyes,99Wine Changed into Water,99Two colorless Transparent Liquids become Black and Opaque,100Two colorless Fluids, Make a colored one,100Change of Color, by colorless Fluids,100To Change Blue Liquid to White,100Veritable "Black" Tea,100Restoration of Color by Water,101Two Liquids Make a Solid,101Two Solids Make a Liquid,101A Solid, Opaque Mass, Makes a Transparent Liquid,101Two cold Liquids Make a Hot one,101Quintuple Transmutation,102The Same Agent may Produce and Destroy Color,102Union of two Metals without Heat,102Magic Breath,102Two Bitters Make a Sweet,103Visible and Invisible,103To Form a Liquid of two Solids,103The Spectral Lamp,104Curious Change of Colors,105The Protean Light,105The Chameleon Flowers,105To Change the Colors of Flowers,105Changes of the Poppy,106Changes of the Rose,106Light changing White into Black,106The Visibly Growing Acorn,106Colored Flames,107Orange colored Flame,107Emerald Green Flame,107Instantaneous Flame,107To Cool Flame by Metal,108Proof that Flame is Hollow,108To Hold a Hot Tea Kettle on the Hand,108Incombustible Linen,108The Burning Circle,108Water of different Temperatures in the same Vessel,109Warmth of Different Colors,109Substitute for Fire,109Laughing Gas,109Flame from Cold Metals,110Phosphorus in Chlorine,110Magic Vapor,111Gas from the Union of Metals,111Camphor Sublimated by Flame,111Green Fire,111Brilliant Red Fire,112Purple Fire,112Silver Fire,112Fiery Fountain,112Combustionwithout Flame,112Combustion of Three Metals,113To Make Paper Apparently Incombustible,113Heat not to be estimated by Touch,113Flame upon Water,113Rose Colored Flame upon Water,113To Set a Mixture on Fire by Water,114Waves of Fire on Water,114Water from the Flame of a Candle,114Formation of Water by Fire,114Boiling upon Cold Water,114Currents in Boiling Water,114Hot Water Lighter than Cold,115Expansion of Water by Cold,115The Cup of Tantalus,115The Magic Whirlpool,116Artificial Fire Balls,117To Melt Steel as Easily as Lead,118To Tell a Lady if She is in Love,118To put an Egg in a Phial,118To Astonish a Large Party,118Magical Test Papers,119Infinite Divisibility,119Chemistry an Agent in Secret Writing,327To Melt a Piece of Money in a Walnut Shell, without Injuring the Shell,355The Pyramid of Alum,354Experiments in Electricity.The Rotary Tobacco Pipe,123The Erratic Feather,123The Attractive Sealing Wax,124The Unneighborly Balls,124The Electrified Paper,124The Sociable Feather,124The Eccentric Feather,124The Discontented Pith Ball,124The Dancing Bran,124The Electrical Cat,124Electrical Shock from a Sheet of Paper,125Light under Water,126Simple means of Producing Electricity,126Attraction and Repulsion Exhibited,127How to Make an Electrical Machine,127Conductor,128The Plate Electrical Machine,129How to Draw Sparks from the Tip of the Nose,129How to Get a Jar full of Electricity,129The Electrical Battery,130Dancing Balls and Dolls,131The Electrical Kiss,131Ringing Bells,131Working Power of Electricity,132The Electrified Wig,132Imitation Thunder Clouds,133The Lightning Stroke Imitated,133The Sportsman,134Experiments in Galvanism.Singular Galvanic Shock,135The Flash of Light,135The Magical Cup,135The Prisoner Leech,136The Metamorphosed Knife,136With Plates in Water,136To Make a Magnet by Galvanism,137Effects of Galvanism on a Magnet,137Change of Color by Galvanism,137The Galvanic Shock,138A Galvanic Tongue,138Influence of Galvanism on Porter and Ale,188The Galvanized Flounder,188Experiments in Magnetism.The Impromptu Magnet,139The Merry Iron Filings,140Test of Magnetic Power,140To Make Artificial Magnets,140How to Magnetize a Poker,140To Show Magnetic Attraction and Repulsion,141Variation of the Needle,141Dip of the Needle,141To Suspend a Needle in the Air, by Magnetism,141Magnetism by Hammering,142Power of the Electro-Magnet,142The Mariner's Compass,142To Make Artificial Magnets without the Aid of either Natural Loadstone, or Artificial Magnets,143The Watch Magnetized,144North and South Poles of the Magnet,144Polarity of the Magnet,144Magnetic Action and Reaction,145To Pass Magnetism through a Table,145The Magnetic Table,145Interesting Particulars Concerning the Magnet,145Exaggerated Magnetism,146The Magic of Pneumatics and Aerostatics.Weight of the Air Proved by a Pair of Bellows,148The Pressure of Air Shown by a Wine Glass,148The Pressure of Air Shown by a Glass Jar,148Elasticity of the Air,149The Air Pump,149To Prove that Air has Weight,150To Prove Air Elastic,150Air in the Egg,150The Descending Smoke,151Half Eagle and Feather,151The Soundless Bell,152The Floating Fish,152The Mysterious Circles,152The Diving Bell,154The Air Balloon,154How to Make an Air Balloon,155How to Fill a Balloon,156To Make Fire Balloons,156The Mysterious Bottle,157How to Make a Parachute,157Caoutchouc Balloons,157The Bacchus Experiment,362The Magic of Optics.Light as an Effect,159Refraction,159The Invisible Coin Made Visible,159The Multiplying Glass,160Transparent Bodies,160The Prism,160To Make a Prism,161Composition of Light,161A Natural Camera Obscura,162Bullock's Eyes Experiment,162The Camera Obscura,162The Magic Lantern,163The Camera Lucida,164Painting the Slides,164To Exhibit the Magic Lantern,164Effects of the Magic Lantern,165Tempest at Sea,165The Phantasmagoria,166Dissolving Views,167How to Raise a Ghost,167The Thaumatrope,168The Bird in the Cage,168Construction of the Phantasmascope,168Curious Optical Illusion,169Another,170Another,170The Picture in the Air,171Breathing Light and Darkness,171To Show what Rays of Light do not Obstruct each other,172To See through a Philadelphia Brick,172The Stereoscope,173Ocular Spectra,175Brilliant Water Mirror,175Optics of a Soap Bubble,176The Kaleidoscope,176Simple Solar Microscope,177Anamorphoses,178The Cosmorama,180Distorted Landscapes,180The Magic Coin,181The Magician's Mirror,344The Perspective Mirror,345The Artificial Landscape,348The Boundless Prospect,350The Enchanted Palace,352Tricks in Mechanics.Importance of Mechanics,182The Laws of Motion,182Experiment of the Law of Motion,182Balancing,183The Prancing Horse,183To Construct a Figure, which, being Placed on a Curved Surface,and Inclined in any Position, shall, when left to itself,Return to its Former Position,183To Make a Carriage Run in an Inverted Position, without Falling,183To Cause a Cylinder to Roll of its own Weight, up Hill,184The Balanced Stick,184The Chinese Mandarin,184To Make a Quarter Dollar Turn on its Edge on the Point of a Needle,184The Self-Balanced Pail,185To Lift a Bottle with a Straw,185The Dancing Pea,186The Toper's Tripod,186The Magical Snake, or the Obliquity of Motion,187The Bridge of Knives,187Sand in the Hour Glass,188Resistance of Sand,188The Magical Gyroscope,346Tricks in Hydraulics and Hydrostatics.The Science of Hydraulics,189The Fountain and Pump,189The Hydraulic Dancer,190The Syphon,191The Water Snail, or Archimedean Screw,191The Bottle Ejectment,192The Magic of Hydrostatics with the Ancients,192To Empty a Glass under Water,192The Mysterious Bottle,157Boiling upon Cold Water,114Currents in Boiling Water,114Hot Water Lighter than Cold,115Expansion of Water by Cold,115The Magic Whirlpool,116The Cup of Tantalus,115To Weigh Water without Scales,353More than Full,361Tricks in Acoustics.The Science of Acoustics,193Difference between Sound and Noise,193Visible Vibration,193Transmitted Vibration,194Double Vibration,194Champagne and Sound,194Music of the Snail,195The Tuning Fork a Flute Player,195Musical Bottles,195Theory of Whispering,195Theory of the Voice,196To Tune a Guitar without the Assistance of the Ear,196Progress of Sound,196To Make an Æolian Harp,196The Invisible Girl,197Magic of Acoustics with the Ancients,198The Secret of Ventriloquism,81To Show how Sound Travels through a Solid,198To Show that Sound depends upon Vibration,198Musical Figures Resulting from Sound,357The Magic of Numbers, or Curious Tricks in Arithmetic.Aphorisms of Number,199Palpable Arithmetic,200The Abacus,201Napier's Rods,202The Arithmetical Boomerang,203To Find a Number Thought of,203Second Method,204Third Method,205Fourthdo.,205Fifthdo.,206Sixthdo.,206To Discover two or more Numbers that a Person has Thought of,206How many Counters have I in my Hands?207The Mysterious Halvings, to tell a Number a Person has Thought of,208Second Method,209Who Wears the Ring?211What is Probable?212Variations,213Amusing Combinations,214The Visitors to the Crystal Palace,217How many Changes can be Given to Seven Notes of a Piano?217The Arithmetical Triangle,217How many Different Deals can be made with Thirteen Cards out of Fifty-two,218The Three Graces,218Second Method,219Third Method,220The Fortunate Ninth,221The Ten Ten's,222Dividing the Beer,223The Difficult Case of Wine,224Decimation of Fruit,224The Wine and the Tables,225The Three Travelers,225What Counter has been Thought of out of Sixteen,226Magic Squares,227Odd Magic Squares,227The Square of Gotham,229The Mathematical Blacksmith,230Curious Properties of some Figures,230The Industrious Frog,234The Council of Ten,235The Two Travelers,235Arithmetical Trick,237The Money Trick,237The Philosopher's Pupils,237To Discover a Square Number,238The Sheep, and the Sheep Fold,238The Countrywoman and the Eggs,238To Rub out Twenty Chalks at Five Times, Rubbing out every Time an Odd one,239The Impossible Triangle,239Odd or Even,239The Figures, up to 100, arranged as to make 505 in each Column,when Counted in Ten Columns Perpendicularly, and theSame when Counted in Ten Files Horizontally,240The Old Woman and Her Eggs,240The Mathematical Fortune Teller,241The Dice Guessed Unseen,242The Sovereign and the Sage,242The Knowing Shepherd,243The Certain Game,243The Astonished Farmer,244The Magical Century,244The Hatter Cheated,245The Basket of Nuts,245The United Digits,246December and May,246The Two Drovers,246The Basket and Stones,246The Famous Forty-Five,247Trick in Subtraction,247The Expunged Figure,247The Mysterious Addition,248To tell at what Hour a Person Intends to rise,249To find the Difference between Two Numbers, the Greater of which is Unknown,249The Magic Remainder,250A Person having an equal Number of Counters, or Pieces of Money, in each Hand,to find how many he has altogether,250The Three Jealous Husbands,251The False Scales,251The Apple Woman,252The Graces and Muses,252The Jesuitical Teacher,252Nine Quaint Questions,253The Fox, Goose and Corn,253Multiplying Money by Money,253The Unfair Division,255A Popular Fallacy,255Curious Tricks in Geometry.The Inventor of Geometry,256Geometrical Definitions,256The Five Geometrical Solids,257How to Make Five Squares into a large one without any Waste of Stuff,258Deceptive Vision,258The Carpenter Puzzled,259The Bricklayer Puzzled,260Triangular Problem,260To Form a Square,261Squaring the Circle,262The Perplexed Cabinet Maker,277Curious and Amusing Puzzles.Alexander the Great's Puzzle,266The Chinese Cross,266The Parallelogram,267The Divided Garden,267The Endless String,267Chinese Maze, the Willow Pattern Plate,268The Vertical Line Puzzle,268The Three Rabbits,269The Accommodating Square,269The Circle Puzzle,269The Cardboard Puzzle,269The Button Puzzle,269The Quarto Puzzle,269The Puzzle of Fourteen,270The Square and Circle Puzzle,270The Scale and Ring Puzzle,270The Heart Puzzle,271The Cross Puzzle,272The Yankee Square,272The Card Puzzle,272The Three Square Puzzle,273The Cylinder Puzzle,273The Four Tenants,273The Puzzle Wall,274The Twenty-Four Nuns,274The Horse Shoe Puzzle,274The Card Square,275The Dog Puzzle,275Puzzle of the Two Fathers,275The Triangular Puzzle,276Cutting out a Cross,276Another Cross Puzzle,276The Fountain Puzzle,276The Puzzle of the Stars,277The Counter Puzzle,277Japan Square Puzzle,277The Cabinet Maker's Puzzle,277String and Balls Puzzle,277Double Headed Puzzle,278Arithmetical Puzzle,278Grammatical Puzzle,278The Tree Puzzle,279Puzzling Epitaph,279Curious Letter,279A Puzzling Inscription,279Puzzling Kings,279The Knight's Puzzle,283Another Method,284Another Method,287Rosamond's Bower,287The Labyrinth,288The Chinese Puzzle,289Trouble-Wit,290Answers to Puzzles.The Chinese Cross,291The Parallelogram,291The Divided Garden,292The Endless String,292Chinese Maze,292The Vertical Line Puzzle,293The Three Rabbits,293The Accommodating Square,293The Circle Puzzle,293The Cut Card Puzzle,294The Button Puzzle,294The Quarto Puzzle,294The Puzzle of Fourteen,294The Square and Circle Puzzle,295The Scale and Ring Puzzle,295The Heart Puzzle,295The Cross Puzzle,295The Yankee Square,295The Card Puzzle,296The Three Square Puzzle,296The Cylinder Puzzle,296The Four Tenants,296The Puzzle Wall,297The Twenty-Four Nuns,297The Horse Shoe Puzzle,297The Card Square,297The Dog Puzzle,298The Two Fathers,298The Triangular Puzzle,298Cutting out a Cross,299Another Cross Puzzle,299The Fountain Puzzle,299The Star Puzzle,300The Counter Puzzle,300Japan Square Puzzle,300Cabinet Maker's Puzzle,300String and Balls Puzzle,301Double Headed Puzzle,301Arithmetical Puzzle,301Grammatical Puzzle,301The Tree Puzzle,301Puzzling Epitaph,302A Curious Letter,302A Puzzling Inscription,302The Magic of Art.To Trace an Oval,303An Endless Source of Amusement,303The Magic of the Oval,303Variations of the Oval,304What may be done with a Square,305How to make a Circle,306Importance of the Circle in Drawing,307Variation of the Square and Circle,307Importance of the Triangle,308How to Construct a Triangle,309The Triangle Works Wonders in Perspective,310Exaggerated Drawing,311The Parallelogram and Triangle in Combination,312Two Parallelograms in Combination,312Magic of the Parallelogram,313The Secret of Comic Drawing,313Caricature Sketching,314Simple Elements of the Profile,315Comic Profiles,316"Punch," and "Mother Hubbard,"316Comical Beards,316The Human Figure,317Proportions of the Human Figure,318Standard Height of the Body,318Comical Drawing of the Human Figure,319The Centre of Gravity,320A Central Line through Everything,320The Curved Line Pervades all Nature,321The Droll Landscape,323Attitude Formed upon the Curved Line,324How to Draw upon Glass, for Magic Lantern Slides,325The Magic of Secret Writing.The Art of Secret Writing very Ancient,326Various Modes of Communicating Secret Intelligence,327Chemistry an Agent in Secret Writing,327Ingenious Mode of Secret Writing,328The Chiffre Indéchiffrable,328A Lock for Mr. Hobbs to Pick,330The Circular Cypher,331Another Method,332The Musical Cypher,333The Magic of Strength.Mechanical Inventions of the Ancients few in Number,334Ancient and Modern Feats of Strength,334Feats of Eckeberg particularly described,335One Man Drawing against Two Horses,335Breaking the Rope,336The Anvil Feat,336Breaking Stones,337The Chair Feat,337The Knee Feat,338The Cannon Feat,338Twisting Iron Bars,339General Explanation on all the Above Feats,339Real Feats of Strength Performed by Thomas Topham,340Remarkable Power of Lifting Heavy Persons when the Lungs are Inflated,341Pyramids of Men,342Miscellaneous Curious Tricks and Fancies.An Artificial Memory,343The Magician's Mirror,344The Perspective Mirror,345The Magical Gyroscope,346Artificial Landscape,348Easy and Curious Method of Foretelling Rainy or Fine Weather,349The Magical Measure,350The Boundless Prospect,350The Magical Watch Lamp,352The Hour of the Day or Night told by a Suspended Shilling,351The Enchanted Palace,352To Know which of Two Different Waters is the Lightest, without any Scales,353To Know if a Suspicious Piece of Money is Good or Bad,353The Pyramid of Alum,354The Dancing Automaton,354To Melt a Piece of Money in a Walnut Shell without Injuring the Shell,355The Invisible Springs,355The Flight of the Ring,356Musical Figures resulting from Sound,357To Make a Card Jump out of the Pack,357The Tell-Tale Cards,357The Double Dozen,358The Housebreakers,359The Magic Book,360The Tape Trick,360More than Full,361Floating Needles,361The Knotted Thread,361The Bacchus Experiment,362Curious Method of Measuring the Height of a Tree,362The Transposable Pieces,362