Publisher's Synopsis
Table of contents: (1) Electrical psychology (2) Mesmerism (3) How to make persons at a distance think of you (4) How to charm those whom you meet and love (5) Writing on the arm (6) Ventriloquism (7) To make a magic photograph (8) To make eggs of Pharaoh's serpents (9) To make a candle burn all night (10) To make a cheap galvanic battery (11) To plate and gild without a battery (12) To make a clock for 25 cents (13) Rules for detecting counterfit money (14) Whitewash (15) Gold imitations (16) Artificial gold (17) Oreide gold (18) To make impressions from coins (19) To print pictures from the print itself (20) Counterfeit silver (21) Hunters secrets (22) Secret act of catching fish (23) To banish and prevent Mosquitos from biting (24) To keep milk sweet in the hottest weather (25) To make yellow butter in winter (26) Circassian curling fluid (27) Sympathetic or secret ink (28) Deafness (29) Cure for toothache (30) To take grease from silks and muslins ... and many more topics! This is a black-and-white facsimile reprint of the 1875 edition. Although it has been checked manually, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. This book includes 2 pages of historical advertising.
