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      Endless Amusement

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664652768

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       ENDLESS AMUSEMENT.

       CURIOUS EXPERIMENTS WITH THE MAGIC LANTERN.

       EXPERIMENTS IN MAGNETISM.

       INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS WITH THE AIR-PUMP.

       AMUSING EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRICITY.

       AMUSEMENTS WITH CARDS.

       SYSTEM OF PYROTECHNY;

       ART OF MAKING FIRE-WORKS.

       MISCELLANEOUS WORKS IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF LITERATURE, PUBLISHED BY LEA AND BLANCHARD.

       THE AMERICAN ENCYCLOPÆDIA. BROUGHT UP TO 1847.

       CAMPBELL'S LORD CHANCELLORS. NOW COMPLETE.

       MURRAY'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF GEOGRAPHY.

       SCHOOL BOOKS.

       BIRD'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. NOW READY.

       ELEMENTS OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, BEING AN EXPERIMENTAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES. ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER THREE HUNDRED WOOD-CUTS. BY GOLDING BIRD, M.D., Assistant Physician to Guy's Hospital. FROM THE THIRD LONDON EDITION.

       HERSCHELL'S ASTRONOMY.

       BREWSTER'S OPTICS.

       MULLER'S PHYSICS AND METEOROLOGY. NOW READY.

       GRAHAM'S CHEMISTRY. NEARLY READY.

       ARNOTT'S PHYSICS.

       POPULAR SCIENCE.

       KIRBY AND SPENCE'S ENTOMOLOGY, FOR POPULAR USE.

       JOHNSON AND LANDRETH ON FRUIT, KITCHEN, AND FLOWER GARDENING.

       GRAHAME'S COLONIAL HISTORY.

       THE ANCIENT WORLD, OR, PICTURESQUE SKETCHES OF CREATION, BY D. T. ANSTED, M. A., F.R.S, F.G.S., &c. PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY, IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.

       CHEMISTRY OF THE FOUR SEASONS, SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, AND WINTER.

       ENDLESS AMUSEMENT. JUST ISSUED.

       BOY'S TREASURY OF SPORTS.

ENDLESS

       AMUSEMENT.

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      To produce Fire by the Mixture of two cold Liquids.

      Take half a pound of pure dry nitrate, in powder; put it into a retort that is quite dry; add an equal quantity of highly rectified oil of vitriol, and, distilling the mixture in a moderate sand heat, it will produce a liquor like a yellowish fume; this, when caught in a dry receiver, is Glauber's Spirits of Nitre; probably the preparation, under that name, may be obtained of the chemists, which will of course save much time and trouble.

      You then put a drachm of distilled oil of cloves, turpentine, or carraways, in a glass vessel; and if you add an equal quantity, or rather more, of the above spirit, though both are in themselves perfectly cold, yet, on mixing them together, a great flame will arise and destroy them both, leaving only a little resinous matter at the bottom.

      The Exploding Bubble.

      If you take up a small quantity of melted glass with a tube, (the bowl of a common tobacco-pipe will do,) and let a drop fall into a vessel of water, it will chill and condense with a fine spiral tail, which being broken, the whole substance will burst with a loud explosion, without injury either to the party that holds it, or him that breaks it; but if the thick end be struck, even with a hammer, it will not break.

      The Magic Picture.

      Take two level pieces of glass, (plate glass is the best,) about three inches long and four wide, exactly of the same size; lay one on the other, and leave a space between them by pasting a piece of card, or two or three small pieces of thick paper, at each corner.

      Join these glasses together at the edges by a composition of lime slaked by exposure to the air, and white of an egg. Cover all the edges of these glasses with parchment or bladder, except at one end, which is to be left open to admit the following composition.

      Dissolve, by a slow fire, six ounces of hogs'-lard, with half an ounce of white wax; to which you may add an ounce of clear linseed oil.

      This must be poured in a liquid state, and before a fire, between the glasses, by the space left in the sides, and which you are then to close up. Wipe the glasses clean, and hold them before the fire, to see that the composition will not run out at any part.

      Then fasten with gum a picture or print, painted on very thin paper, with its face to one of the glasses, and, if you like, you may fix the whole in a frame.

      While the mixture between the glasses is cold, the picture will be quite concealed, but become transparent when held to the fire; and, as the composition cools, it will gradually disappear.

      Artificial Lightning.

      Provide a tin tube that is larger at one end than it is at the other, and in which there are several holes. Fill this tube with powdered resin; and when it is shook over the flame of a torch, the reflection will produce the exact appearance