Show A SMOKELESS CANNON Quickly Made and May Be Fired Off In the Parlor For this experiment which can bo performed In any parlor without dan ger of shuttering tho mirrors or deafening deaf-ening any one with the noise of the explosion take a little hollow steel ponholdcr and nil one third of it with water Then cut out a stopper for tho pen by sinking ItInto a piece of potato pota-to and passing tho tube through a cork which should he placed In a slightly sloping position says Good Literature At this point with great gravity tho performer Inquires Arc you ready Then place a lighted can die under the ond containing tho water wa-ter Fire comes tho word of command com-mand from tho spectators and hi a second pop goes tho stopper which Is forcibly ejected by tho steam mado w Firing Off the Cannon from tin heat of the candle on the water In the penholder |