The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-01


ally.
Now, take one corner of the handker-
chief in your teeth, and the other in
your right hand, stretching it out and
grasping the middle of the hem with
the left hand, where the silk thread is
fastened. Fold the handkerchief verti-
cally in the middle, so that the egg will
be on the inside of the fold. Then hold
ing the handkerchief folded carefully
shake the blown egg out of the hat.
Throw the handkerchief over the side
of the hat next the spectators and draw
it toward you, across the hat, of
course drawing out, but underneath the
handkerchief, the blown egg attached to
the thread. Fold the handkerchief
again, as at first. and shake out an
other egg Repeat this until you have
the correct number of eggs in the hat,
when you deity break the thread and
allow the audience to see the genuine
eggs in the nest. Without exception.
this is the best egg trick practiced and
when cleverly DONE as it can be with
little practice. creates no end of as
constituent and mystifica ton
The spiritualistic mediums have
great smoke trick, with which they have
humbugged thousands. This is chem
zeal trick, and very simple. A bucket
of clear water is brought into the room,
into which dry sponge is placed The
several times, to show there is nothing
unusual about either it or the water.
Then by aid of spirit power the medi-
umS claim, and as a manifestation of
their presence, the sponge is again i'm
mersed and withdrawn, when dense
clouds of smoke, enough to fill the room,
emanate from it. The water is really
weak solution of ammonia in water.
In the sponge is concealed small glass
tube filled with muriatic acid and seal
ed securely. The immersion of the
sponge in the water produces no effect,
but when the smoke is desired, it is only
necessary to crush the little tube and
release the acid. The chemical reaction
does the rest
Next ask for marked coin; bor-
row half a dollar from some one and
ask the owner to mark it. Then an
nounce that you will pass it into and
through glass filled with water,
through the table and into your own
hand under the table. To accomplish
this have made disk of ordinary
glass, exactly the size of half dollar
Borrow a handkerchief and throw it
over the borrowed coin, ostensibly but
really drop the coin into your own hand
and place the disk of glass in the hand
kerchief. Ask some one to hold the
supposed coin in the handkerchief, oar
the glass of water. He will feel the coin,
as he supposes and at the word of COM
mand Will drop it into the glass of wa
ter. 1t will give forth metallic ring
when it strikes the bottom of the glass,
and will lie flat and be invisible As
soon as the tinkle of the coin sounds in
the glass. the handkerchief is jerked
away, the performers hand is with
drawn from under the table, and in it is
found the borrowed coin. This illusion,
after a little practice, can be perform
ed in manner perfectly ineXplicabe
70 all who see it.. The person who holds
the disk of glass under the impression
that he holds the borrowed half dollar
IS always ready to declare that he had
that coin up to the instant you com
manded him to drop it, and the shape of
the coin in the borrowed handkerchief
over the glass of water, is plainly seen
.bySeveay one. of course. the real coin
was held by the magician in his own
hand, under the table, all the time N
Now announce to your friends that
you will show them trick at gambling
with coins. Allow yourself to be blind
folded, and throw out half dollar, ask
ing some one to spin it and state that
you will tell whether it falls heads or
tails each time. This you can do with
absolute certainty, and no one will be
able to fathom the mystery. OF course,
IT such trick We're to be really applied
to gambling, the possessor of it would
be nothing short of a robber To ac-
complish the result, secretly cut a niche
in the side of the milled edge of the
coin. Note whether the side cut is
head or "tail.' When the coin is
spun, if it falls upon it's smooth side, it
will continue to wobble much longer
time before it finally rests than if it
falls upon its niched side A little pre-
Vious practice will enable the perform
err to distinguish which side is up, every
time.
This coin trick will introduce another,
seemingly more mysterious, If posi-,
BILE, than its predecessors. Borrow
number of coins all of the same size
and toss them into a hat. Then ask
some one to select a coin and carefully
mark it. When this is done, ask an
other person to hold it tightly in his
hand, meanwhile, talk interestingly, as
a bandage is being placed over your
eyes. When blindfolded. direct the per-
son who has been holding the coin to
toss it into the hat with the others and
mix them up WELL Then place your
hand in the hat and pick up the marked
coin. 1t seems next to impossible to do
this, but 1T is the simplest thing i'm
aginable, for the coin that has been
held for minute or two, tightly clasp
ed in hand, is warm; the others are
all cold.
The Columbus Egg" is an old trick.
yet few comparatively know how to do
1T. Let all who care to try, essay 70
stand an egg upon it's end. They Will
fail. Take the egg, and with two or
three quick, sudden shakes, its yoll
will break and settle to one end. 1t
will then be simple for you to stand it
upon its larger end
10 fill glass full of water and turn
it upside down without splitting any of
the water, will prove a puzzling trick,
when carefully performed, although it
is one that will require a little pra.-
tlce before public experiment is made
Have disk of isinglass cut, to Just
cover the mouth of the goblet Fill the
glass even full and when in the act of
turning 1t over. place the isinglass disk
fairly over it. Your fingers will guide
the circular edge. to proper place, as
they pass over the top edges of the
glass. The air pressure will keep the
cover in place and the glass may be
inverted, the isinglass of couse being
invisible.
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