Frank Wehman - One Hundred Fifty Parlor Tricks and Games

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This collection features lots of little tricks, stunts, science experiments and games. It also has an extensive advertisement section in the back.

• The Disappearing Egg
• "Ghost Rings": A Pretty Party Trick
• The Invisible Candle
• Home-made Ping-Pong
• Animal Magnetism
• A Curious Illusion
• The Dancing Skeleton
• The Floating Corks
• Restoring the Cut Thread
• Invisible Photographs
• A Laughmaker
• The Magic Coin Box
• A Match Trick
• The Balanced Coin
• The Disappearing Coin
• A Peculiar Number
• To Name all the Cards in the Pack in Succession
• The Indian Duck Trick
• The Latest Cigarette Vanish
• The Balanced Handkerchief
• An Egg-and-Stick Balance
• To Balance a Cone of Paper on the Nose
• The Bottle Conjuror
• To Name Top Card
• How to Make a Telephone
• A Nocturnal Surprise
• The Watery Knife
• The Jumping Egg: A Party Trick
• The Magdeburg Hemispheres
• The Triple Vanishing Billiard Balls and Glass Table
• An Artistic Card Effect
• Telling Fortune with Dominoes
• The Dice Trick
• The Running Mouse
• Chemical Experiments
• A Siphon Trick
• Blowing Out a Candle Behind a Bottle
• The Origin of Dominoes
• The Magic Glass
• Trick with a Balanced Coin
• Ice Made in a Drawing-Room
• Who Wears the Ring?
• The Double Meaning
• Imitation Thunder
• Pool Table Tricks
• The Magic Egg
• An After-Dinner Trick
• Tricks with a Gas Jet
• The Paper Rings
• Card Reading
• Pyramid of Alum
• Biting Nails in Two
• How to Sit Without Chairs
• To Lift a Man with Five Fingers
• The Chinese Bat
• The Three Almonds
• Egg Production
• The Captives in the Tower
• Silken Fetters
• The Stretched Handkerchief
• Catching the Pile of Money
• Coin Trick
• Engraving an Egg
• Experiment with Dominoes
• Breaking Stones with Your Fist
• Thought Reading
• Candle Trick
• Ghastly Appearance
• A Burning Coal on a Muslin Handkerchief
• Varieties of Crystals
• To Pass Steam Through Cardboard
• Tricks with Coins
• To Make a Plank Adhere to a Table by Means of a Newspaper
• To Get a Ring Out of a Handkerchief
• Easy and Curious Methods of Foretelling Rainy or Fine Weather
• An Eggshell Boat
• Magic Inks
• Magic of Heat
• A Purple, Green, and Red Liquid from the Same Bottle
• To Make a Needle Float
• The Queens Digging for Diamonds
• To Call the Cards out of the Pack
• A Thanksgiving Dinner Trick
• Musical Figures Resulting from Sound
• The Paper Puppets
• How to Make Imitation Frost
• The Fakir's Feast
• To Cut a Cord with the Hands
• Christmas Eve Amusement
• To Bring a Card which has been Thrown Out of the Window into the Pack Again
• A Lung-Testing Trick
• The Restored Document
• Changing, Vanishing, or Producing Envelope
• A Thanksgiving-Day Game
• The Floating Ball
• Bon Bons of Colored Paper Clippings
• An Infallible Barometer
• At which Side will the Match Catch Fire?
• To Name Cards without Seeing Them
• Christmas Nut and Candy Trick
• The Unalterable Pellet of Bread
• The Vanishing Gloves
• To Make Water Freeze by the Fireside
• To Pass a Coin Through a Hat into a Tumbler
• The Mesmerized Cross of the Orient
• The Burnt Writing Restored
• To Crack Walnuts in Your Elbow

1st edition 1905, 106 pages; PDF 122 pages.
word count: 44964 which is equivalent to 179 standard pages of text