Wehman Bros.' new book of one hundred and fifty parlor tricks and games : home-made apparatus . e bird to lay holdof the stem of the feather with its claws, and it will twistand turn about, or it may be rolled along the table withoutany attempt to fly away. This remarkable trick should bemade much of, and by a series of passes all round the bird,pretend that the experiment is really the outcome of animalmagnetism. A Curious Illusion, A curious trick may be performed by means of two coni-cal bodies and a couple of walking-sticks. Take two lampshades and fasten the edges together. Then make an i
Wehman Bros.' new book of one hundred and fifty parlor tricks and games : home-made apparatus . e bird to lay holdof the stem of the feather with its claws, and it will twistand turn about, or it may be rolled along the table withoutany attempt to fly away. This remarkable trick should bemade much of, and by a series of passes all round the bird,pretend that the experiment is really the outcome of animalmagnetism. A Curious Illusion, A curious trick may be performed by means of two coni-cal bodies and a couple of walking-sticks. Take two lampshades and fasten the edges together. Then make an in-clined plane by means of two walking-sticks in the mannershown in our illus-tration. Let the spacebetween the two sticksbe wider at the higherthan at the lower place the doublecone at the bottom ofthe incline, and itwill roll to the at first sightthe trick suggests a disturbance of the natural law ofgravitation, it is only an adaptation of that well-knownprinciple. As the sticks widen the cone is correspondinglydepressed, and the centre of gravity is equally 8 TRIOKS The Dancing Skeleton. This is certain to cause much astonishment if well arrangedbeforehand. Get a piece of board, about the size of a largeschool slate, and have it painted black. The paint should bewhat is known as a dead color, without gloss or out the figure of a skeleton on a piece of cardboard,and arrange it after the manner of a jumping-jack, so that byholding the figure by the head in one hand and pulling astring with the other, the figure will throw up its legs andarms in a most ludicrous manner. Make the connection ofthe arms and legs with black string, and let the pulling stringbe also black. Then tack the skeleton by the head to theblackboard. The figure having been cut out it must bepainted black to match the board. Now to perform: Pro-duce the board; show only the side upon which there isnothing. Eequest that the lights may be lowered slightly,and ta
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