Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-11-30

READING HIDDEN VALUES-Foul
packets of cards having been formed
face downward on the table, discover
the total value of the undermost cards
This trick should be performed with
the piquet pack of 81 cards, which is the
ordinary pack with the deuce, tray, four
five and six of each suit left out. In
vite one of the spectators to select prl'
vately any four cards, and to place
them separately. face downward, upon
the table; then counting an ace as
IL, a court card as 10, and any other
card as according to its usual value;
place upon each of these four so many
cards as. added to its value thus eSti-
mated, shall make -. Value is TO be
taken into consideration only with the
original four cards, those placed on
them counting as one each, whatever
they may happen TO be. Meanwhile re-
tire. When the four heaps are COM
plete advance TO the table and observe
how many cards are left over and above
those placed in the heaps. To this num-
Der mentioned add 81. The total will
give the aggregate value of the -four
lowest cards, circulated as above men
toned. Should there be no cards left
over the total value of the lower cards
will be 81 but should there be an insult
iicient number of cards to complete the
four heaps ascertain the number lack
ing and subtract it from 30. This can
only occur, however, when the fouI
Sevens happen to be the underneath
cards.
PLACING AN UNKNOWN CARD-A per
son having thought of certain card
and noted its position in the pack, the
performer can make that card appear at
such a number in the pack as another
person shall name.
Permit the pack to be Shuifled and
cut as freely as the company may
please. Offer the pack to any of the
spectators and request them to look
over the cards, to think of any one OF
them and to remember the number al
which it stands in the pack, reckoning
from the bottom card upwards. Then
ask another person to ascertain private
ly the original number in the pack al
which the card stands, and then to men
ton another number, higher than the
first, at which he would like the card TO
appear. Suppose, for instance, that
the second number decided upon shall
be -. Then count off % cards from
the bottom of the pack and place them
on top, or count off from the top of the
pack the difference between the mum
Der chosen and the total number of the
cards, -, and place them on the bot
tom: it is immaterial which method is
adopted. Now, ask the number al
which the card originally stood, which
for example, was number 10, saying
that you intend to commence your
counting with that number. Begin tC
count from the top of the pack, calling
the first card Tin this inStance) 10, the
next II, and so on. When you come tC
the second number selected, in thi:
case -, the card at that number will
invariably be the one thought of.
How MANY WERE MovED?-A row
of cards being placed face downward
on the table, indicate by turning up one
of them how many of them have during
your absence been transferred from one
end of the row to the other.
This trick requires IA row of Is cards
placed face downward upon the table,
the first 10 cards having been prear.
ranged in the following manner: First
a ten, then nine, then an eight and 50
on down to the ace, exclusive. The