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Show . - ' - -: -""- I I III J .... sorts of ways and; then declare ,tha the thing cannot be done. i . But it may be,,done ea'sily -by hold?. Ing the bottle upright. and.; rotating it '. rapidly in a small circle" until centrifugal cen-trifugal force causes; the surface of -the water to assume the form of a funnel. fun-nel. The floating cork sinks with the "..- The .Grass.. The grass so little lias, to do- . . ' A sphere of simple green. .. With only butterflies , to brood, j And bees-to entertain, '"', f ; And stir all day to pretty tunes . . The breezes fetch-along, . . . " : - And hold the sunshine In its lap " And bow, to everything:; ' And, thread the" dews all night, like pearls, ' ; - ' . ' . And make Itself so tfine . ;-A ;-A duchess were too common. - - . . For such a noticing. And even when It dies, .to pass In odors so divine. As lowly spices gone to sleep,1 Or amulets of pine. . And then to dwell in sovereign barns, And. dream the days away . The grass so little has to do, I wish I were the hay! Emily Dickinson. Your Opinion on Somebody Else. New games are things that every boy and girl is looking for. Not only skeins of thick -worsted, next a piece of tin, in the shape of a flat tube, large enough for the quarter to pass -through' and about four inches long. Now, wind the worsted on one' side of the tube, to a good-sized ball, having a quarter-of your own in your right hand. You may-now show the trick. Place the worsted anywhere- out of sight, borrow the marked quarter, and,, taking it in your left hand, look at it and say, "It is" good." ' Place the one in your righthand on the end of the table farthest from the company, then fetch the worsted, and while so doing drop' the marked - quarter through the tube, pull the tube out and wind the worsted a little t conceal the hole. Put the ball into a tumbler, and, taking the quarter you left on the table, show it to the company, who will imagine it to , be the borrowed bor-rowed quarter, saying: "Presto! Fly! Pass!" Give the end of the ball to one of the audience and request him to unwind, it, which, being done, the money will fail out, to the astonishment astonish-ment of all. water, and when it has slipped off the wire a slight inclination of the bottle bot-tle will make it float up on one side. Fourteen Hidden Rivers. The following story contains the names of fourteen rivers, hidden somewhere some-where among its sentences: We started down the path in single file, Conrad, Helena, then I, leaving the yard. Helena had an orange whic.h she peeled industriously, and Don ran by her side begging. "Con, go and get Don a bone and we will leave him behind," said Helena-Don Helena-Don and Nig were Helena's two dogs. Lift Man With Fingers. This is a schoolboy pastime, and consists in one individual being lifted and sustained by the fingers. Two operators op-erators put their index fingers under the -person's shoes, two others place their fingers under each elbow, and a fifth under the chin of the subject. At a given, signal each person lifts his hand and the person is easily lifted up. The result may seem surprising, but it is only the question of the equal subdivision of weight. ' The average , 1 Conrad ran to do as he was asked, and on his way back he began gesticulating gesti-culating wildly. VNig, -ere I had-time to close the gate," -he said,, "escaped, and, fearing he would follow us, I gave him a bone, too. I heard a lady in the parlor as I ran past the door reading somebody's obituary. She was just back from the Maderia Islands, she said, and had brought mother some of her honey.'-' We walked on, and our talk touched on the obsolete words we knew. "When I was talking about them to Dan, uberous," said Helena, "was the only one he could remember. Just then I said, 'Hark!' an' sassafras leaves rustled all about us, and what seemed to be a Moor in outlandish costume sprang out of the bushes and frightened fright-ened us very much. We all ran as fast as we could,Jjiit were overtaken by tne-CtlOoi , CfTo iovSd to 0 only" our own big brother." See how many of the fourteen rivers you can find in this little story. Coal Mine on Fire Fifty Years. The Lehigh Coal and Navigation company is about ready to make an effort to extinguish the fire which has been raging in the old Greenwood mine, north of Tamaqua, for nearly half a century. The company's plan is to drill into the burning portions of the mine at different points, pump water from the Schuykill river, mix it with culm and run it into the mine. It will then be possible to' work three of the richest and largest veins In the region. Write Your Opinion. - games that you have never played yourself, but games that not many other people, have played either. Here is one that ought to suit a good many of you. It is played something the way "consequence", is played that is, with paper and pencil. Each, person is given a piece of paper and a pencil pen-cil and is told to write her opinion of Bomebody; one whom every one who is . playing the game knows, if possible, This opinion need not be elaborate or long. You need only say, "the person per-son I am telling my opinion of is" and then just put down a few adjectives, adjec-tives, such as jolly, pretty, witty, lazy, inventive and so on, making them as long as you please. You must have at least three descriptive adjectives. I Do not put either your name or that of the person you are writing about on the paper, but when you have finished fold the paper so that what you have just written cannot be seen, and pass it to your left-hand neighbor, neigh-bor, who in turn passes hers on. On the new paper you have had passed ,you, without looking at what is written, writ-ten, write the name of the person you think that your right-hand neighbor , would have been most likely to have described, and then when everybody has done this, put all the slips of paper in a pile in the center and in turn each draw one out and saying: "This is thought to be the opinion of," and then read the name on the paper. Open it and read the opinion. If it happens to be the opinion you wrote put it back -without reading human being weighs about 150 pounds, so each finger has to sustain only about thirty pounds of weight, which is nothing extraordinary. A Trick Bottle. Fill a wide-mouthed bottle half full of water. Stick in the bottom of the cork a long wire over which a smaller perforated cork is slipped and cork the bottle as shown in the right-hand picture. The trick is to get the small cork off the wire without uncorking the bottle. A person not in the secret will turn and shake the bottle in all aloud and take another. When you have read it you have the privilege of making one guess as to whom the opinion is really intended intend-ed for, and if you giiess right the one who wrote it must acknowledge it and say whether it is right or wrong, ! and if right pay a forfeit. Each one reads one of the opinions and has the privilege of one guess. After that is over you can redeem the forfeit. Burning a Coin. Here is a little piece" of parlor magic, very simple, easily performed, yet very mystifying. Take a piece of paper four inches one way by five inches the other. Put the coin a cent will do on the paper and fold the paper over it from the top to within one inch of the bottom. Then fold the right hand side of the paper under the cent and the left hand side in the same way. Don't forget that these folds must be under the cent, j Then fold the bottom inch of the pa per under the cent also, and it will seem that you have securely. wrapped . the cent up, whereas it will be in a , sort of pocket, and will readily slip cut into either of your hands at your pleasure. 1 Allow the spectators to feel the coin j through the paper; then take the pa per from your left hand into your right, and let the cent slip out into your left hand as you do so. This you must do dexterously, so that no one may see the act. Now burn the paper, and the cent will have disappeared. The Magic Quarter. Like all the best magical tricks, this is one of the most simple. A marked quarter is borrowed and a large ball of worsted Is bought Presto! Pres-to! The worsted is unwound and out ' falls the money that a minute before ?'- . was In the owner's pocket. 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