Wehman Bros.' new book of one hundred and fifty parlor tricks and games : home-made apparatus . can surprise the lender by asking him to lookunder the clock or some other unexpected nook, and whenthe coin is discovered there, every one is astonished and yourreputation as a conjurer goes up a marked extent. A Match Trick. Slit a match at the undipped end and cut another matchon the slant. Place one of them within the other so as toform an acute angle andset them thus joined a-straddle of a knife matches must bekept with the phosphor-ous ends lightly touchingthe table. They mustnot be
Wehman Bros.' new book of one hundred and fifty parlor tricks and games : home-made apparatus . can surprise the lender by asking him to lookunder the clock or some other unexpected nook, and whenthe coin is discovered there, every one is astonished and yourreputation as a conjurer goes up a marked extent. A Match Trick. Slit a match at the undipped end and cut another matchon the slant. Place one of them within the other so as toform an acute angle andset them thus joined a-straddle of a knife matches must bekept with the phosphor-ous ends lightly touchingthe table. They mustnot be allowed to moveaway from its to your astonish-ment perhaps the firsttime you make the ex-periment and to the am-azement of those thatwitness it, the matcheswill begin to march along the blade. It seems for all theworld like a spontaneous movement, but the explanation isvery simple. It is due to the unconscious muscular move-ment of the hand that holds the knife. The hand must bepressed hard upon the table, for if it were laid there lightlyno muscular movement would take 14 TRIOKS The Balanced Coin. The requirements for this trick are an ordinary hairpin,a long steel pin, such as ladies use to keep the hats in posi-tion, a five-cent piece, and a finger-ring, about equal to it in weight. You are required, by the aid of theother two articles, to balance the coin onthe point of the hat pin. Bend the hanpin into the form shownin illustration. Use the narrow loop ofthis as a clip to hold the coin, bendingthe wire closer and closer till you havethe coin secure. Hang the ring on thehook at the opposite end of the wire,and then proceed to balance it as shownin the illustration. Several trials willprobably be necessary before you areable to ascertain the precise point at which to apply the pin;but, this once found, you may even set the coin spinning bygently blowing upon the ring, without destroying its equi-librium. The Disappearing Coin. The apparatus required for
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