Salt Lake Herald | 1891-05-17 | Page 2 | Fun with Loaded Matches

I Fun with loaded Matches One of the latest noveltiesis the loaded I match It is to all appearances one of the common innocent looking redhead affairs but there is a surprise and a scare in every one of them I If your friend wants to light a cigar i hand him over one of these trick matches It is lighted in the usual way but just as it is fairly aflame and the victim vic-tim is about to apply it to his weed it gives out a loud report and the light extinguished ex-tinguished much to the chagrin and astonishment as-tonishment your friend I This detonation which is about as loud as that produced by tho explosion I I of a firecracker is caused by the flame coming in contact with some explosive substance probably fulminate which has been deftly smeared on one side of the stickNewYork Herald I