R-DROP

Get a match and make a notch in the middle of it, bend it so as to
form an acute angle, and place it over the mouth of a bottle.

Now place a dime or other small coin on the match and ask any one to
get the coin into the bottle without touching either the bottle or the
match.

This is very easy to do. Dip your finger in a glass of water, hold it
over the place where the match is notched, and let one or two drops
fall on this point. The force of the water will cause the sides of the
angle to move apart, and the opening thus become large enough to let
the coin fall into the bottle.

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THE SENTINEL EGG

This trick requires care and patience. You must lay a piece of
looking-glass on a perfectly even table; then take a new-laid egg and
shake it about for some time until the white is well mixed with the
yolk. In this condition it is possible to balance the egg on its end
and make it stand upright on the glass. This trick is more certain
to be successful if you are clever enough to flatten the end ever so
slightly and evenly, by giving it a gentle and unsuspected tap.

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THE COIN TRICK

Take a coin in each hand and stretch out your arms as far apart as you
can. Then tell your audience that you will make both coins pass into
one hand without bringing your hands together. This is easily done by
placing one coin upon the table and then turning your body round until
the hand with the other coin comes to where it lies. You can then
easily pick the coin up, and both will be in one hand, while your arms
are still widely extended.

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THE WONDERFUL PENDULUM

If you fill a wineglass with water and place a thick piece of paper
over it so that no air can get in, you will find that you can turn
the glass upside down without spilling a drop of water, because the
pressure of the air on the outside will keep the paper from falling
off. It is on this principle that the present pendulum is to be made.
Take a piece of cardboard larger than the mouth of the glass; pass a
cord through a small hole in the center of the card, and fasten it by
means of a knot on the under side, then carefully cover the hole with
wax, so that no air may get in.

Place your cardboard over the glass full of water, and by making a
loop in the end of the cord you can hang the glass from a hook in the
ceiling without any fear of