The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-01-12
NUMBER A.


The Almond Feat. Get three
almonds OF any other eatables, and
having placed them upon the table
short distance apart, put a hat over
each. Tell the company that you will
eat the three almonds, and, having done
SO, will bring them under whichever
hat they please. When you have
swallowed each separately, request one
of the spectators TO point out the hat
under which they shall all be. When
choice has been made of one of the
hats, put it upon your head, and ask
the company if you have not fulfilled
your promise.
The Hat and Glass of Wine. Put
glass of wine or other liquid upon the
table; place hat over it and say: I'm
engage to drink the wi ne under that
hat, and yet I'll not to uch the hat"
Go under the table, giving three knocks;
make noise with your mouth as II
you were swallowing; then getting up,
say: ''Now, gentlemen, be pleased to
look" Some one eager 10 see If the
liquor has disappeared, will raise up
the hat, when YOU instantly take up
the glass and drink the contents, say
ing: "Gentltmtn, l have fulfilled my
promise. You are ali witnesses tnat J
did not touch the hat"
The Magician rs joke. Take two balls,
one III each hanu, and stretch them
asunder as far as you can; ask any one
of the company present 10 lay wager
that you Will not make both the balls
come into which hand they choose to
name, without brinsin both hands
together. Someone will naturally say
that you cannot do 1t, and will take
your offer, when you have merely
TO place one bail upon tie table, turn
yourself round, and take it up again
with the other hand.
Advantageous wager. Borrow
watch. Examine it, to form an idea of
its value, then offer TO lay the owner
wager considerably less than the value
uf the watch, that she does not answer
three times consecutively "My watch,o
Present her the watch and say: "What
is this?" She will not fail TO reply
my watch" Afterward present some
other object, asking the same question.
Ii she names the object you have pre-
sented she has lost the wager, but, if,
Oh the contrary, she is on her guard
and says my WATCH" she evidently
must win. You must then say to her
You are sure to win; but suppOsing
lose what will you give me2" If she
replies my WATCH" take it and leave
| her the wager that was staked.
Go, if you can. Tell one of the COM
, pany that you will so clasp his hands
together that he will be unable to leave
l The room without unclaspiEg them,
l undertaking that you viii not contine
! his feet nor bind his body, nor in any
way interfere with his motion. This
o trick is performed by clasplng the per-
sons hands round one of the legs of a
piano or large table, or other bulky
: article of furniture, too large for him
TO drag through the doorway.
s To name the card upon which one or
n more persons fix. There must be as
a many different cards shown to each
: person as there are cards to choose; so
that if there are three persons, you
s must show three cards to each person,
r telling the first to retain one in his
l. memory. You then lay the three
cards down, and show three others to
the second person, and three others to
!, the third. Next, take up the first per-
It sons cards, and lay them down sepa-
y rately, one by one, with their faces up
It wards; place the second PERSONS cards
over the first, and the third over the
seconds, so that there will be one card
,, in each parcel belonging to each person.
70 Then ask each of them in which parcel
Il his card is; for the first PERSONS wln
# always be first, the second PERSONS
,, second, and the third persons the
% third in that parcel where each says his
u card is. This amusement may be
performed with single person by let
r ting him fix on three. four or more
a cards. In this case you must show
= him as many parcels as he is to choose
~ cards, and every parcel must consist of
l. that number, and of which he is TO fix
j, ON one, and you must then proceed as
le before, he telling you tie parcel that
m contains each of his cards.
10 An apparent impossibility. Inform
the audience that you can show any
SC one OF them what he never saw, what
E. you never saw, and what nobody else
ever saw, and which, after you two
Ip have seen, nobody else ever shall see
20 10 accomplish this produce nut, and
~ having cracked it, take out the kernel
~ and ask HIM if he he has ever seen thai
is beforep He will, OF course, answer
le No" You reply, "Nelther have
t. and think you will confess that nobody
ii else has seen 1t; and now no one shall
~ ever see it again, saying which. put
-" the kernel into your mouth and eat it.
81 To make water freeze. This curious
h fact can only be performed in winter
Set quart pot upon stool before the
D. the fire, throwing little water upon
, the stool first. Then put handful oil
- snow into the pot, having privately
J, s conveyed into it handful of salt
u Stir it about for eight OF ten minutes
is with short stick, and the cOngelation
will he effected.