Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
To furnish the ingenious youth with the means of relieving the tediousness of a long winter’s or a wet summer’s evening,—to enable him to provide for a party of juvenile friends, instructive as well as recreative entertainment, without having recourse to any of the vulgar mode...
Having thus closed your boxes, you produce what appears to be a single box, and lay it on the table. You now ask the person, who still retains his hold of the shilling in the ha...
11. Part 11APPLY the points of a pair of compasses, distant from each other one or two lines, to the cheek, just before the ear; then move them successively to several other parts of the c...
9. Part 9Moisture is always present in the air, even when it is driest. To prove this, press a piece of sheet copper into the form of a cup; place on it a piece of phosphorus, thoroughly...
6. Part 6Put oyster-shells into a common fire; burn them for about half an hour; then remove them into a dark room, when many of the shells will exhibit beautiful specimens of prismatic...
4. Part 4In this new instrument, no tubes are necessary, as in the ordinary opera-glass; their place being supplied by a slender elastic conical spring of wire, into the upper extremity...
8. Part 8All fluids, except water, diminish in bulk till they freeze. Thus, fill a large thermometer tube with water, say of the temperature of eighty degrees, and then plunge the bulb i...
7. Part 7If, however, a _lump_ of antimony be dropped into the chlorine, there will be no spontaneous combustion, nor immediate change: but, in the course of time, the antimony will beco...
3. Part 3Dissolve a small piece of nickel in nitric acid, and it will appear of a fine grass-green colour; add to it a little ammonia, and a blue precipitate will be formed; this will ch...
5. Part 5Provide two glass bottles, and tune them by pouring water into them, so that each corresponds to the sound of a different tuning-fork. Then apply both tuning-forks to the mouth...
2. Part 2Sleights and Subtleties. The Ring and the Handkerchief 127 The Knotted Handkerchief 128 The Invisible Springs 130 The Miraculous Apple 131 The Self-balanced Pail 132 The Phantom...
12. Part 12Immerse a slip of copper in dilute nitric acid, and it will be soon corroded and dissolved; but, if a slip of zinc be immersed with the copper, the zinc will be dissolved, and t...
1. Part 1To furnish the ingenious youth with the means of relieving the tediousness of a long winter’s or a wet summer’s evening,—to enable him to provide for a party of juvenile friends...