FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3, 30 January 1908, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

TWe Fish and Ink Trick.— This is really a first-rate delusion. You bring before the spectators a glass vase, full of ink. You dip a ladle into it, and pour out some of the ink upon a plate, in order to con.ince the audience that the^ substance in the vase is really in':: You then throw a handkerchief over th : 3 vase,' and instantly withdraw it, when the \ase is found to 'be filled with pute. water, in which a couple of gold fish are swimming. This apparent impossibility is performed as follows. To the interior of the vessel is fitted a blacb silk lining, which - adheres- closely to the sides when pressed by the water, and which is withdrawn inside the handkerchief durina; the performance of the trick. The ladle has a hollow handle with an opening into the bowl, in the handle is a spoonful of so of ink, which runs into ths bowl when it is held downward, during the act of dipping it into the vase. Musical Figures Resulting from Sounds.— Cover the mouth of a wide glass,, having a foot-stalk, with a thin sheet of membrane, or Vegetable paper, over which scatter a\ layer of fine sand. The vibration excited in the air by the sound of a musical instrument, held within a few inches of the membrane, will cause the sand on its surface to form regular lines and figures with astonishing celerity, which vary with the sound produced effecting a particular mode of division, according to the number of vibrations.