. St. Nicholas [serial]. blowing in the bag, keeping the mouth tight inthe bag so that no air can escape, the up-right book will be tilted and raised and thestructure overthrown. It would, of course, beimpossible to blow the book over without theaid of the bag. THE PAPER FISH. Cut a fish out of stout writing-paper, and inthe center cut a round hole, as shown at A inthe figure; then from this cut out a narrowstrip reaching to the tail. Placing this paper fish in any long vessel fullof water, it will, when you are ready for it to doso, slowly move head first along the surface ofthe water without
. St. Nicholas [serial]. blowing in the bag, keeping the mouth tight inthe bag so that no air can escape, the up-right book will be tilted and raised and thestructure overthrown. It would, of course, beimpossible to blow the book over without theaid of the bag. THE PAPER FISH. Cut a fish out of stout writing-paper, and inthe center cut a round hole, as shown at A inthe figure; then from this cut out a narrowstrip reaching to the tail. Placing this paper fish in any long vessel fullof water, it will, when you are ready for it to doso, slowly move head first along the surface ofthe water without your touching it. (Care mustbe taken to lay it gently on the water, so as notto wet the upper surface of the paper.) Thefish, of course, lies flat on the water. The secret lies, not in blowing the fish along,as some promptly guess, but in placing in theopening A a large drop of oil. This tries toexpand and extend over the surface of thewater; the paper is not porous enough to ab-. passing out of the channel which leads fromthe hole A to B; and in issuing from this chan-nel it will push the fish forward. A JUMPING TRICK. Lay ten tooth-picks in a row at equal dis-tances. Move them by jumping, as incheckers, so that two shall be jumped eachtime, and at last five pairs remain. 23 456 7»9 -6 3-1 9-5 Solution: Lay 7 on 10, 4 on 8, 6 on 2, 1on 3, 9 on 5. THE DANCING EGG. To make an egg dance on the bottom of aplate, first boil it hard; then set it on its largeend in the center of the plate, and, holding thelatter horizontal, give it a rotation in a horizon-tal plane ; the egg will keep spinning like a practice, the egg may be made to assumethe vertical position after being laid on its facilitate prompt obedience on the part ofthe egg, hold it vertical, with the large enddownward, while it is being boiled. To makethe trick still more easy to perform, lay theplate on a table with the edge projecting be-yond that of the table, and then start the egg 346
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