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Show Fun with Load i-d Matches. One of the latest novelties ia the loaded match. It is, to all appearances, one of the common, innocent looking redhead afi;iirs, but there is a surprise and a scare in every one of them. If your friend wants to light a cigar hand him over one of these trick matches. It is lighted in the usual way, but just as it is fairly ailaine and the vie-' tini is about to apply it to his weed it gives ont a load report and the light is ex tiutruished, much to the chagrin and astonishment as-tonishment of your friend. This detonation, which is about as lond as that produced by the explosion I of a firecracker, is caused by the flame coming in contact with some explosive substance, probably fulminate, which has Ixvn deftly smeared on one ado of thfl sud &w)Cgk Herald. |