The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-05-07


! fused, will not fail in a short time to
I pierce the paper and run through.
! If twenty grains of phosphorus, cut
very small and mixed with forty grains
! Of powder of zinc, be put into four
drachms of water and two drachms OF
concentrated suIphuric acid be added
thereto. bubbles Of inflamed phosphOr-
sted hydrogen gas will cover the whole
surface of the fluid. forming a beauti-
full mountain of fire.
A pretty trick is performed in this
manner: Take a pin and dip into
glycerine and mark on your arm any
number hateyer-say 1630-and leave
the marks remain. You must have a
confederate. and. on joining a COM
| pany, suggest that some one write
| some number down. Your confederate
will quickly respond, writing the fig
ures already on your arm on a piece OF
| paper. Let him exhibit throughout
the crowd and have him burn on a
plate. After telling the company that
you propose to make the identical fig
ures appear on your arm, rub the ash
es of the paper on the spot where you
had previously put the glycerine and
| you will have the numbers your con-
federate marked down on your arm in
very bold letters.
To cause a brilliant explosion under
water drop piece Of phosphorus the
size of pea in a tumbler of hot water;
and, from a bladder furnished with a
stop-cock force stream of oxygen d.
rectly upon it. This will cause a beau
tiful explosion under water.
To change the color of a bird or
flower it is necessary to have earthen
vessels which have little edges or
rims near their mouths. You should
| likewise be provided with shoppers of
cork of a diameter equal 10 that of
| their mouths. To make an expert
ment on some bird it is necessary 10
commence by making a hole in the
stopper sufficiently large to contain
the neck of the bird without stang
ling it. This done, you dir de the
stopper into two equal paris so as to
facilitate the placing of "a around the
neck without doing injury to the bird.
The two parts being brought together,
you place at the bottom of the vase an
ounce of quicklime and beneath that
quarter of an ounce of sal amm"niac.
When you perceive the effervescence
commences to take place you promptly
insert the stopper, TO which the bird
is attached, leaving the neck outside.
The plumage of the body, exposed to
| the effervescent vapor, Will become
impregnated with the various colors
produced by this chemical combina-
ton. Remove the stopper and the
bird, and you will perceive its feath-
ers charged with divers colors. Two
or three minutes serve to produce this
effect. In experimenting upon a
flower the hole in the stopper need
only be large enough to hold the stem
which serves TO suspend il in the air
during the operation. which can be
completed in one or two minutes.
Take glass bottle; put into it some
volatile alkali, in which has been dis
solved some copper filings, which will
produce a blue color. looking like
liquid of some kind. Ask some one to
cork it while indulging in some pleas
the company to the liquid, when, to
their establishment. they will find that
the supposed liquid has disappeared
as soon as it was corhed. You can
cause it to reappear by simply taking
out the stopper, and this will appear
equally astonishing.
Put half a teaspoOnful OF syrup of
violetS and three tablespoonfuls OF
water into a glass; stir them well to-
gether with a stick and put half the
mixture into another glass. If you
add few drops of acid of vitriol into
one of the glasses and stir il ii will be
changed TO a crimson. Put few
drops of mixed alkali, dissolved. into
another glass. and when you stir it il
will change to green. If you drop
slowly into the green liquor from the
side OF the glass few drops of acid OF
vitriol you will perceive crimson al
the bottom, purple in the middle, and
green at the top: and by adding little
fixing alksli, dissolved, 10 the other
glass, the same colors will appear in
different order, making a beautiful
effect.
To freeze with liquid pour ether up
on a glass tube in a thin stream. Il
will evaporate and cool il 10 such de
gree that water contained in il may be
frozen.
Invisible ink can be made in this
way; Dissolve green vitriol and a lit
tie nitrous acid in common water.
write your characters with Il pen.
Next infuse small Aleppo gals, slight