TWO TRICKS IN MAGIC.
WATER BEWITCHED. A surprising feat may be accomplished in the following manner : | Take an ordinary dinner plate and fill it with water ; then get a small empty phial and assure the company that you are wizard enough to pour water through the solid bottom. Having declared that tho phial must be perfectly dry when the experiment is performed, thrust a stick into it and hold it to the lire till it is very hot—too hot to holdthen stand it, without delay, mouth downwards, in the plate of water. Pour a teaspoonful of water on the bottom of the phial as if you meant to fill it that way. | Every time you do this the phial will become more and more filled with water. As this takes place every time you pour water on the bottom it will look as if the water had passed through the solid glass. Of course, the water really rises from j the plate with the contraction of the j air as the bottle cools.
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Lake County Press, Issue 1068, 11 June 1903, Page 7
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