MAGIC MONEY BOX.

Western Star, Issue 1548, 28 March 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)

MAGIC MONEY BOX.

An Interesting Experiment in

Physics

Among the experiments in phyßios, there arc perhaps few that were formerly as popular as the one in which a human head, capable of speaking.was seen lying on a threelegged table beneath which there appeared to be nothing. The body to which the hsad belonged was in reality in the table, the head passing through an cperlure and the body being conic Bled by two mirrors inclined at an

angle of 45 degrees with respect to the walls at the right and left of the little hall in which the experiment took place. The image of the walls wbb confounded with what was seen of the wall to the rear. An ingenious manufacturer has utilised the principle of this experiment Ohich could be performed only with the outfit of a prestidigitator) in the production of an amusing little toy. It is a magic money box formed of a square box having a glass in one side and lined with wadding. When a coin is put into the slot at the top, it falls and immediately disappears. Where has the money gone ? That is the question that is proposed on a printed slip in the interior,acd which it is not always possible to answer. The box in reality is formed of two parts, as may be seen in the figure (B) to the right. The compartment into which the coin drops ia concealed by two small mirrors at an angle of 45 degrees, exactly as in the experimsnt mentioned above-