Show F j I NEW TRICKS BY UNCLE NED I II I Here I am again my dear children to Ehow you how you may make little magicians I ma-gicians of yourselves You ought to like mo better than you like tho magicians I on the stage for I not only perform the I trick for you but tell you how it Is I done they on the contrary Just show what they can do and then leave you puzkllng your brains over it AS I have C Maid I show you how to become magicians magi-cians yourselves and lots of fun you can gel out of it ifyou will Tarn going to tell you now how to to turn a bottle into a cannon and I how to discharge the cannon too without with-out Jarring the walla of the house or I giving anybody a worse shock than one I of astonishment J I I Perhaps you havent such a thing as J I an empty i champagne bottle about the house or a full one either I hopeand in that cane you must got one Pour water Into it until it Is onc > third full and in tho water dissolve a small quantity quan-tity of bicarbonate of soda You would better get from the druggist one of the little packages used fpr making scKllltn powdciH In It you will find two papers the blue paper containing the soda and the white paper tnrtaric acid It Is tho contents of the blue paper that you ale to dissolve Into the water that you have poured Into the bottle Now roll up a playing card into a tube tic It firmly with a thread and Into Ill empty tho contents of the whlto paper Wit tartavle acid plugging up one end of the tube ulth a Ilitlo bull of blotting paper This tube is the cartridge for your cannon Stick a tack In the lower end of the cork of the bottle and from It suspend tha tube open end up by meant of a thread tho thread being of Just lhe right length to keep the tube out of the water when the cork Is put In the I hot tlo Now put the COlle In the boltle and you have your cannon loaded aHl ready for the discharge Place two round lead pencils parallel to each other and about four InulieH apart on an uncovered table and lay tho bottlo on them In a few seconds the water will penetrate the tube and dissolve the tartaric acid and the car bonic acid gas thus generated will malce pressure enough to drive the cork onto ont-o the bottle with u loud report and with the cartridge trailing after It At tin same time ho I bottle will recoil UH real guntt do and the spectators If you have not lot them Into the secret will I wonder how you did It all I 1 1 r LJ p U II I t < oI oiL t v L I I p |