. New games and amusements for young and old alike. the bottom immediately. Thisdid not happen, however, and my arousedcuriosity prompted me to add greater I laid my four-bladed penknife ontop of the spool; to my astonishment thepaper still remained floating; and evenwhen I placed on more freight, in the shapeof four one-cent pieces, it obstinately refusedto sink. Desirous of learning the exact carrying ca-pacity of a whole sheet of floating writing paperI first placed a stiff piece of cardboard in its centre,and then proceeded to load it with the numerousarticles shown in th
. New games and amusements for young and old alike. the bottom immediately. Thisdid not happen, however, and my arousedcuriosity prompted me to add greater I laid my four-bladed penknife ontop of the spool; to my astonishment thepaper still remained floating; and evenwhen I placed on more freight, in the shapeof four one-cent pieces, it obstinately refusedto sink. Desirous of learning the exact carrying ca-pacity of a whole sheet of floating writing paperI first placed a stiff piece of cardboard in its centre,and then proceeded to load it with the numerousarticles shown in the illustration (page 238).That a sheet of paper should float for ten dayswas surprising enough, but that it should floatunder such a weight was nothing short of mar-vellous. Continuing my experiments along thisline, I placed a piece of wrapping paper thirtyby forty inches on the surface of the water. Onthis paper I first laid two slender sticks length-wise ; on these sticks I placed a large tin bowl,and on top of this bowl I seated my pet cat,238.
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