. Our young folks [serial]. IV. Little fairy snow-flakes Dancing in the flue :Old Mr. Santa Claus, What is keeping you ?Twilight and firelight ; Shadows come and go ;Merry chime of sleigh-bells, Tinkling through the snow ;Mother knitting stockings, (Pussy s got the ball!) —Dont you think that Winters Pleasanter than all ? T. B. 1868.] Lessons in Magic. 6n LESSONS IN OF all the tricks in a conjurers programme, there are, according to myidea, none so interesting, beautiful, or wonderful, as those which owetheir effects to electricity, or rather to electro-magnetism. Owing, h
. Our young folks [serial]. IV. Little fairy snow-flakes Dancing in the flue :Old Mr. Santa Claus, What is keeping you ?Twilight and firelight ; Shadows come and go ;Merry chime of sleigh-bells, Tinkling through the snow ;Mother knitting stockings, (Pussy s got the ball!) —Dont you think that Winters Pleasanter than all ? T. B. 1868.] Lessons in Magic. 6n LESSONS IN OF all the tricks in a conjurers programme, there are, according to myidea, none so interesting, beautiful, or wonderful, as those which owetheir effects to electricity, or rather to electro-magnetism. Owing, how-ever, to the expense attending them, they are unsuited to any but a profes-sional ; and yet, being my pets, I have ventured, in this my concludingLesson, to introduce one, and I think my readers will admit it to be as mys-terious as any I have yet explained. What, for instance, can be more won-derful than a drum which beats of itself whilst suspended by cords from theceiling ? There is some motive power, no doubt; but what is it ? It cannotbe clock-work, for that, when once started, keeps going until run down;whereas this power has an intelligence moving and stopping at is it then ? Well, my gracious reader, the motive-power is clock-work,controlled, however, by an electro-magnet. But what is an electro-magnet ?Ah
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