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Show that it Is only necessary to wak th electricity to make them active. Take a sheet of paper, for example, and rub it briskly with a brush of with your hand, and you will find that it will stick to your hand or your clothes, much as if it were glued there. Rub a piece of glass in the same way, and it will attract to itself any light thing, such as a scrap of cork or a pith-ball. It is with an electrified drinklng-glass drinklng-glass that this trick may be performed.'' per-formed.'' Place a chair in the middle of the floor, and, on the back of it balance a walking stick, telling the spectators that you are going to make the stick fall off the chair without touching either of them and without even blowing blow-ing on the stick. Having first thoroughly dried the glass; rub it with a brush or on your sleeve and hold it near one end of the stick. Strew appropriate bait along the passageway, pas-sageway, and although your ga- e might hesitate to enter a broken jug above ground, they will have no fear of one beneath the sod, and 'either'" Jump or fall inside, where they may be allowed to remain some time with 5t Sir urn Cutting Thread Insloe a Bottle. If you were asked to cut in two thread hanging from the cork on the inside of a bottle without touching touch-ing the bottle or the cork or even the thread for that matter how -would you go about It? That seems to "be a pretty hard proposition, but It in easy enough when you find out how it is done. .--v Get a bottle that is made .of clear glass, so. that what goes inside of it may be readily seen; the ordinary wine bottle is not suitable, because it is made of colored glass. To the underneath un-derneath part of the cork, attach a lent pin, and from the pin suspend a piece of common thread, black preferred, pre-ferred, with a shoe button tied to its lower end. The thread must reach only to within with-in an inch or two of the bottom of thf Tjottle, and when you have dropped it inside and inserted the cork, the weight of the shoe button -will" keep "the thread hanging taut. "" "' ' Now the cutting. All you need is .a reading-glass, or sun-glass, a double convex lens, you know, and a window -where the sun is shining. Hold up the lens so as to catch the sun's direct rays, focus them on , the thread through the side of the bottle and in -a. few moments the tnread will be cut through by the heat as deftly as if a :pair of scissors had been used. This little experiment may be made trom beginning to end in the presence -of spectators, or it may be turned into ;a feat of amateur magic. If the latter, the bottle, the cork and the thread should be prepared openly, with seal-jiot seal-jiot to be removed. Then go to another an-other room, where you can get the ;un's rays, and having used the lens in private, bring the bottle back with j The wakened electricity in the glas3 will at once attract the stick and make it swing, in any direction that you move the glass, so that you may make good your promise and draw the stick out of equilibrium whenever you pleae. ? Yon may substitute for the walking stick, if you choose, a cane fishing rod or a bamboo feather duster handle. All you have to do is to balance it nicely on the back of the chair, where rt will swing so easily that the small, quantity of electricity in the glass will attract it. j The trick Is better performed in dry weather, for if the air is damp the elctrical effect is much weakened. , Trick With a Match. Button your coat, strike a match and hold it at arm's .length in your right hand and bend your left elbow, so as to bring the wrist near your face. Then blow out the match by blowing into your left sleeve. It seems impossible, doesn't it, to force a current of air strong enough to put out the light through your bent sleeve, around your body under your coat and down your right sleeve? Everybody Every-body will say you can't do it. Well, you can't. ' The trick Is to make people think you do it, and this you accomplish by holding the match between your thumb and forefinger and snapping your middle finger nail against the end of the match at just the right moment. A sharp snap will put the flame out. You had better prac- The Jug Trap Set. no fear of their escaping. The Jug trap is only suitable for small animals. ani-mals. ' Good Game for Young and Old. Here is an old game that used to be popular even among "grown-ups," and it causes more fun and laughter than you can imagine. You must have a thimble first of all. Then all go out of the room except one, who Is left with the thimble. Now the thimble has not to be hidden, but put in some place where every one can see it easily without moving or touching anything I to do so. 'if iM or instance, a good place is on a nail, which holds up a picture, or the window ledge; stuck in the fringe of the table cloth, put in the ornamental part of the fender, or, in fact, anywhere, any-where, where there are things around it to confuse one. When the "hider" has placed the thimble he calls the rest of the company in, and the search begins. Now listen, for this is the most important im-portant rule of all. Those who are looking for the thimble, must not touch or more anything in the room in their search, and when one does see the thimble he must not cry out: "Oh, there it Is!" Perfect silence should prevail, and when the boy or girl sees it, he or she must sit down. It is wonderful what a long time it often takes before the whole company com-pany has seen it often two or three children will stand - actually looking at the thimble, and yet never see it, and this is such fun for those who have already seen it. Cane That Will Obey Orders. If you want to astonish your young friends at your next party, here is a way you can do it. The success of the trick depends on the well-known fact that all bodies have some electricity in them, and Blowing Out the Match. tice the trick in private before a sympathizing sym-pathizing friend (for you can't see the match yourself) before you venture to "show off" in public. v Mice or Men? The String About to Break. the thread cut. It will be hard for the spectators to guess how you did it. Jug Trap for Small Animals. An old earthenware jug, with a mall hole knocked in the upper part, Tnay be used as a trap for small bur-Towing bur-Towing animals. Bury the jug in the earth, near the hole of the animal you are after, then make an artificial burrow, bur-row, extending from the surface of the ground to the hole in the broken jug. Here are five mice. Turn them upside up-side down and you have five men. |