The Portland daily press., 1889-10-18

The neck and other parts are put in as in
other violins.
My violin has splendid tone. The adj
vantage of making violin in this way is
that you avoid a bent rim and do not have to
hollow out the top and back.
Legerdeman.
Some simple tricks which, when skilfully
performed, are a source of wonder and amhse-
ment to both young and old are the follow
ing: Take pack Of cards, having arranged
the nine of clubs, the ten of diamonds and
the ace of hearts in the middle Of the pack
then present the pack to your audience, in
ducing or Forcing" as it is called, one to
draw the nine Of clubs, one the ten of dia-
monds, and third the ace of hearts, which,
having inspected, they return TO the pack,
which is then shut1ied
An assistant next produces a sword, the
blade of which has been thrust through
three similar cards which are attached to an
elastic cord fastened to the point of the
sword, and the cards are drawn down to the
hilt, behind which they are concealed, while
the tension Of the elastic is held taut by being
fastened at the same place. The operator
then throws the PACK of cards into the air
and thrusts the sword through them, at the
same instant releasing the elastic cord, with
the result that the three cards are drawn up
to position near the point of the blade,
thus giving the impression that they were
pierced by passing through the flying PACK.
Take piece OF paper, roll 1t up In the
form Of a candy horn, and place within it,
secretly, packet of specially prepared COM
pressed flowers; then putting your hand
within the roll, as IL the better to arrange it,
release the band which holds the flowers,
and empty them on the table, in the mean
slne introducing second and a third packet.
repeating the operation until the heap is
many times the size of the receptacle from
when they have been taken
NsXs permit your audience to select four
farus ron Tue pack. which having been re-
tuIheu, pace the pack end upward in a glass
goblet or in thin case not deem enou5h to
. mae H. ard place the goblet or case unon n
glass decanter or stick, At a commend the
CARDS rise, one at time, out OF the pack
one rises quickly or slowly, as directed. orc
comes out ieet first and on being mt hacly
again rises head upward like the Others. and
one dances IN time to music and finally inmns
out Of the pack. At the conclusion there re-
mains only the goblet or the case. subject to
the minutest examination of anyone from the
audience, without trace of moving mechan-
ism visible. The secret communication is a
fine silken thread, so arranged in the preyi-
Ously prepared pack, passing over some
cards and under Others, and led behind the
decanter and thence to the confederate. As
fine Infinitely simple mechanical agent is
drawn altogether out of the pack after the
last card had risen, literally no trace of the
contrivance remains. This was once a
famous fame feat Of Comte, the French ,conjurol
and yentriloqust, at the end Of the last cen.
tury. and remains one Of the most deceptive
tricks with cards of the present DAY.
now TO PUT AN EGG IN A BOTTLE
To accomplish this seemingly incredible
act requires the following preparation; you
take an egg aud soak it in strong vinegar,
and IN process Of time its shell will become
quite soft, so that it may be extended length
the neck Of a small bottle, and by pouring
cold water upon it, it will re-assume its
former figure and hardness. This ir really