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so dexterously as to be undetected, with the other between your thumb and fore-finger, the spectators will, naturally enough, think you have really cut the latter; which you may seem to make whole again, while repeating some conjuring words, and putting away the two ends of the piece that is actually cut.
How to suspend a Ring with a burnt thread.
The thread having been previously soaked two or three times in common salt and water, tie it to a ring not larger than a weding-ring. When you apply the flame of a candle to it, though the thread burn to ashes, it will yet sustain the ring.
A whimsical trick.
Take salt-petre an ounce, cream of Tartar an ounce, sulphur half an ounce, beat them to powder singly, then mix them together, and put the powder in a paper in your pocket, you may then at any time you please, convey a grain into a pipe of tobacco, and when it takes fire it will give the report of a musket, but not break the pipe; or you may put as much as will lay upon your nail in any place, upon
