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“ Let another person now grasp the handkerchief as tight as he pleases three or four inches below the ring, and tell the person holding the ring to let it go, when it will be quite evident to the company that the ring is secure within the centre of the handkerchief. ”

“ Take half an ounce of camphor, dissolve it in two ounces of aqua vitæ, add to it one of quicksilver, one ounce of liquid storax, which is the droppings of myrrh, and prevents the camphor from firing; take also two ounces of hematis, which is a red stone, to be had at the druggists’; and when you buy it, let them beat it into a powder in their great mortar, for, being very hard, it cannot well be reduced in a small one ”

“ The load of articles from a borrowed hat, such as cannon balls, cabbages, boxes, etc.; the famous ink and water trick, with apparatus, so that you can instantly change a glass of ink to clear water, new and surprising card tricks including a pack of wizard’s cards, the famous dancing skeleton, true secret of ventriloquism, by means of which you can learn to throw the voice into hay-lofts, closets, trunks, etc., magic wand, and many other wonderful sleight of hand marvels are all contained in Prof. ”

“ People will imagine that ghosts or demons are near. This trick can be done in any room very easily. The skeleton will dance to music, jump, lie down, etc., just as you command. We will send the apparatus and secret of Wizard [12] Skeleton for 6 cents in stamps. Address, A. B. Courtney & Co., 493 Washington street, Lynn, Mass., or the firm from whom you purchased this book.
Magic Writing.
Present a person with a slip of paper, a pen and a tumbler of water, and desire him to dip the pen in the tumbler, and write down whatever he pleases. ”