The Bradys After a Chinese Princess; Or, The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco
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Ayvad's Water-Wings
Learn to swim by one trial
Price 25 cents, Postpaid
These water-wings take up no more room than a pocket-handkerchief.They weigh 3 ounces, and support from 50 to 250 pounds.With a pair anyone can learn to swim or float.For use, you have only to wet them, blow them up, and press together the two ring-marks under the mouthpiece.
FRANK ROBINSON, 311 W.44th St., N.Y.
LAUGHING CAMERA.—Everybody grotesquely photographed: stout people look thin, and vice versa.
Price, 25c., postpaid.
WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W.26th St., N.Y.
FALSE NOSES
Change your Face!
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They are lifelike reproductions of funny noses, made of shaped cloth, waxed, and colored.When placed over your nose, they remain on securely, and only a close inspection reveals their false character.
ALL SHAPES, SUCH AS BUGS, HOOKS, SHORT HORN LEMONS, AND RUM BLOSSOMS.
BETTER THAN A FALSE FACE
CAN BE CARRIED IN THE VEST POCKET
PRICE 10 CENTS EACH BY MAIL
FRANK ROBINSON, 311 WEST 44th ST., N.Y.
LOOK BACKWARD
WONDER OF THE 20th Century
THE GREATEST NOVELTY OUT
When placed to the eye, you can see what is taking place in back and front of you at the same time.No need to wish for eyes in the back of your head, as with this article you can observe all that occurs in that direction without even turning your head.How often are you anxious to see faces in back of you or observe who is following without attracting attention by turning around.This instrument does the trick for you.Lots of fun in owning a Seeback Scope.
Price 15 cents each in money or postage stamps
WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W.26th St., N.Y.
WE SHIP ON APPROVAL without a cent deposit, prepay the freight and allow 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL.
IT ONLY COSTS one cent to learn and unheard of prices and marvelous offers on highest grade 1912 model bicycles.
FACTORY PRICES Do not buy a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone at any price until you write for our large Art Catalog and learn our wonderful proposition sample bicycle going to your town.
RIDER AGENTS everywhere are making big money exhibiting and selling our bicycles.We sell cheaper than any other.
TIRES, Coaster-Brake rear wheels, lamps, repairs and all sundries at half usual prices. Do 'Not' Wait; write to-day for our special offer
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STRONG ARMS
For 10c in Stamps or Coin
Illustrated with 20 full-page half-tone cuts, showing exercises that will quickly develop, beautify, and gain great strength in shoulders, arms, and back without any apparatus.
PROF. ANTHONY BARKER
Barker Bldg., 110 W.42nd St., New York
CAMERA and Complete Outfit for 25c
Takes pictures 11.8×11.8 inches.With plates, paper, chemicals, etc.; leatherette covered, full instructions so that any small boy or girl can take pictures.The complete outfit will be sent you securely packed and delivered for only 25c or 3 for 60c.W.E.McNEIL & CO.
Dept.6245 Chicago
MAGIC SKULL
10c.Shines in dark; funny.Catalog free.
KLEIN, 1403 Broadway, New York.
LOTS OF FUN FOR A DIME
Ventriloquists Double Throat!Fits roof of mouth & always invisible; greatest thing yet.Astonish and mystify your friends.Neigh like a horse; whine like a puppy; sing like a canary and imitate birds and beasts of field and forest.LOADS OF FUN.Wonderful invention.Price only 10 cents; 4 for 25 cents or 12 for 50 cents.
DOUBLE THROAT CO.DEPT.K FRENCHTOWN, N.J.
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THE CROWN STYLO
Made of Aluminum, Satin Finish, Guaranteed Not to Leak
PRICE 25c.EACH, POSTPAID
This stylographic ink pencil is made on a new plan.It cannot corrode and will outlast and outclass any similar pencil on the market.It is a splendid writer, and is easily kept in order.Each one packed with a clip to hold it in your vest pocket.
FRANK ROBINSON, 311 W.44th St., N.Y.
THE MAGNETIC TOP
PRICE 5 CENTS, POSTPAID
A handsome metal, highly magnetized toy.A horseshoe, and a spiral wire furnished with each top.When spun next to the wires, they make the most surprising movements.You can make wires of different shapes and get the most peculiar effects.
L.Senarens, 347 Winthrop St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
REMINGTON UMC
Nº 6 .22 Rifle
Do You Want a Rifle as accurate and reliable as the world-renowned Remington-UMC big game rifle that the famous hunters use?
The No.6 single shot has tapered barrel, case-hardened frame, genuine walnut stock and fore-end, rifle butt plate, rear and tang peep sight.
Shoots .22 short, .22 long and .22 long rifle cartridges.Also made to shoot .32 short rim-fire cartridges.
You'll actually be surprised at its moderate price.Ask your dealer.
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METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO.
299 BROADWAY
New York City
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HUMANATONE.—The improved Humanatone.This flute will be found as the most enjoyable article ever offered, nickel plated, finely polished; each put up in box with full instruction how to use them.
Price, 18c., postpaid.
WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W.26th St., N.Y
"Secret Service"
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 1, 1911.
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ITEMS WORTH READING
The superintendent of an orphan asylum in Oxford, N.C., lately received the following letter, offering a good education to some deserving boy: "Dear Doctor, I wants to git a gude boye from the assylim to hep mee in mye farm wurk.I will treet him cindely and giv him as gude edicatin as I hev got myself.Your truly," etc.
By way of reply to the 14-inch gun which has been adopted, by some other navies, the British Admiralty are constructing, we understand, a 15-inch, 50-caliber gun.If the present rate of increase continues, it will not be long before we are back to the 17-inch caliber, which was used in a few monster weapons of 20 years ago that were mounted in certain Italian warships.
For conniving at the crimes of notorious robbers, eleven of the detective officers of Moscow have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment—five of them to hard labor in the Siberian mines.The detectives were denounced in a private letter to the czar, written by a thief who had refused to operate with the officers and divide his plunder with them.
One hundred dollars for one standing white pine tree was the stiff price paid to George Burgess of Clark County, Wis.The tree was cut and scaled slightly over 5,000 feet when cut into six logs, making a good profit for the buyer at the present price of lumber.At that rate a quarter section of pine would make a man a millionaire many times over.
According to cable dispatches from Gibraltar, the new battleship "Neptune" has recently made a test of a new system of aiming the main battery, which has been originated by Percy Scott, the father of the modern system of target firing.It is stated that while the "Neptune" was steaming at 13-knots she fired two broadsides in quick succession at a target moving at the same speed at a distance of 8,000 yards, and that every shot went home.The aiming and firing of the guns is done entirely from the conning tower, the duties of the gun crews being merely to load the guns.If this be true, Scott has made an advance second only in importance to his famous improvements of five or six years ago.
At Douen, in France, on the River Seine, there is a bridge that is a sort of aerial ferry.In order to avoid interference with shipping at this point, it was determined to place no structure in the stream or near its surface.Instead of a bridge in any of the ordinary forms, a horizontal flooring, sustained by steel towers and suspension cable, was stretched across the river at an elevation of 167 feet.On this flooring run electrically-driven rollers, from which is suspended, by means of steel ropes, a car that moves at the level of the wharves on the river banks.The car is 36 feet wide and 42 feet long, and is furnished, like a ferryboat, with accommodations for carriages and foot passengers.The ropes that carry the hanging car are interlaced diagonally in such a manner that the support is rigid, and a swinging motion is avoided.
To secure sound rock for the entire length of the Catskill aqueduct tunnel it has been necessary to go down over one thousand feet below the river surface.Investigation was made by wash borings, by diamond drills operated from scows on the river, and by inclined diamond borings started from the bottom of shafts sunk 300 feet on each side of the river.One of these inclined holes was over 3,000 feet long.The inclination was determined by sinking the shaft glass tubes filled with hydrofluoric acid, which etched a true horizontal line on the interior surface.
WITH THE FUNNY FELLOWS.
Shockit—Does learning the bicycle require any particular application?Sprockitt—No; none in particular.But arnica is about as good as anything.
Visitor—What makes you so ugly, Tommy?Don't you love your baby brother?Tommy (viciously)—Well, I did till somebody came in and said he looked like me.
Waiter (seeing dissatisfaction on guest's face)—Wasn't the dinner cooked to suit you, sir?Guest—Yes; all but the bill.Just take that back and tell them to boil it down a little.
"George, I wish you'd leave this little package at the express office."Me carry a bundle?I guess not.Besides, I've got to lug both my tires and a handle bar down to the repair shop.
Lawyer—I'll defend you, Sambo, in this bigamy case, but what defense have you?Sambo—I kin prove an alibi.Lawyer—An alibi?How will you prove it?Sambo—By two odder wives whut I had.
Miss Smart (after an hour of patient listening to a tortured violin)—Do you play a great deal, Mr. Sawton?Mr. Sawton (modestly)—Oh, not a great deal, I assure you.I play only to kill time.Miss S.(enthusiastically)—How well you succeed!
Judge—Have you anything to say, prisoner?Prisoner—Yes.I'm engaged to be married.I've been engaged for the last ten years.Judge—Why aren't you married?Prisoner—Because we've never been out of jail together.She comes out to-morrow.
The pupils in a school in Boston were asked to give in writing the difference between a biped and a quadruped.One boy gave the following: "A biped has two legs and a quadruped has four legs, therefore, the difference between a biped and a quadruped is two legs."
Mistress—Oh, Briget!Briget!What an awful numbskull you are!You've put the potatoes on the table with their skins on, right in front of our visitors, too.You—you—what shall I call you?Briget (affably)—Call me "Agnes," if ye loike, mum; 'tis me other name.
A real joke was sprung by a student at the Western Reserve University last week.This student suffers from the stigma of obesity; it appears that even professors do not love a fat man.After a particularly unsuccessful recitation in English III., the professor said: "Alas, Mr. Blank!You are better fed than taught.""That's right, professor," sighed the youth, subsiding heavily."You teach me—I feed myself."
A writer in the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post tells of a big, overgrown, bashful booby of a farmer's boy who was afraid even to speak to a girl, and whose father one day finally lost patience and scolded him roundly for not looking about and finding some girl to marry."Why," he said, "at your age I had been married three years and had a house and farm of my own!""Well, but, dad," complained the boy, "that ain't the same thing at all.You only had to marry mother, while I've got to go and hunt up some strange girl and ask her to marry me!"
THE MARSHLEA TRAGEDY
By Col.Ralph Fenton
Three years ago I went down to Marshlea to spend the summer.It is a sea-breezy, bird-singing country, and the Ocean House, having been taken by a friend of mine for the season, I knew I should have unexceptionable quarters, and "rust" as my friend Charley Williard says, to my heart's content.
Change of scene is a good thing, but utter solitude, under the names of rustication and rest, is a penalty I never willingly undergo.
I knew that there would be plenty of people at Marshlea—people in undress and holiday tempers—fashionables exhibiting, scholars seeking, invalids languishing, flirts flirting, and many good people simply enjoying relief from care and the salubrious situation.
I expected as much of the people as I did of the place, and accepted them quite as willingly.
My quarters were comfortable, a cool northeast room and a little east bedroom looking upon the sea, both rooms furnished freely in bamboo and India matting.
I wheeled my bed so that I could see the sun rise in the morning, quite comfortable, and with no thanks to Mr. Bierstadt, and heard the gong sound two hours later, while I was reading Thackeray.
I never took morning sea-baths—they did not agree with my constitution—but at noon, when the tide lapped the shingles, full of a soft wash and warm swells, I took a stretch of half a mile, and felt the better for my tonic.
But of a morning, as the tide came in, it was pleasant to watch the bathers—men swimming with fearless little boys, mothers dipping astonished babies, and acres of scarlet-clad figures tripping along the sand, or waltzing in the surf, like blossoms blown about—while the sky lay low and fleecy and warm over the scene.
I remember the sand-piper's cry, the peals of laughter, and lowing of the cattle in the marshes.
I recollect the saxifrage that grew among the rocks, the spring that pushed its way over the salt pebbles to the waters of the cove, and the sweet notes of the little brown shore birds.
I recall a day when the sunshine was very bland; glittering carriage loads of dolce far niente pleasure-seekers rolled slowly down the sands.Staniels' canopied boat, its silken flag fluttering, softly rocked at his moorings, little white tents, the mushroom dwellings of sportsmen, dotted the rocks, and the sea glittered and tossed under the serene blueness of the sky.
It was all enjoyable then, but an element of tragedy entered into it afterwards which makes me recall the place with a pang of sorrow.
I seem to hear a woman's shrieks ringing out over that blue, smiling water.
I was smoking in the bowling alley one evening, when a light coupe came dashing over the sands, and stopped at the door of the hotel.
John Saunders, my good friend and host, came out to meet a singularly handsome man, who alighted, and entered into conversation with him.
"By jingo!"exclaimed a volatile voice in my ear."Colonel Staniels!"and my mercurial friend, Walt Summers, finished his exclamation of surprise with a prolonged whistle.
"Are you sure?"I asked, for I knew the name, though not the man then.
"Yes; know his carriage.And then no one could ever see Eben Staniels and mistake him afterwards."
I was certain of that when I saw the gentleman at supper.
He was about the medium height, with a magnificent chest, a handsome head covered with curling brown hair, and a prompt, military bearing.
His eyes were gray, bright, unflinching and very handsome.
He wore a closely-trimmed dark beard, and his regular features, straight brows and bold white forehead made his face as fine as it was fearless.
He seemed entirely indifferent to the sensation he produced.
It was generally known that he had been divorced from his wife two years previous, and this fact, together with his wealth, standing and personal appearance, made him an object of attention to everybody.
His manner was unexceptionable, and his bearing perfectly cool, to an ordinary observer; but as I passed him on the porch, late in the evening, smoking, I saw him looking silently over the moon-lighted sea, and wincing at his secret thoughts.
His room adjoined mine.He was at Marshlea three weeks before I made his acquaintance.
He knocked at my door one evening just at sunset.
"Mr. Cathmor, would you like to drive in town with me to-night?The sunset promises us a fine evening."
I had planned a sail by the moonlight, but an impulse to accept Colonel Staniels' invitation instantly seized me.
I admired the colonel, was glad to know more of him, as this opportunity suggested, and I liked fine horses, and the colonel's were very fine.I accepted the invitation.
When we went out the sun had just set, and a boy was holding the horses.
As soon as he left their heads we sailed away.
The animals were magnificent, wanting nothing but guiding.
In town we went to the postoffice and bank, and then turned homewards.
The colonel talked well.We touched briefly on a score of standard subjects, and momentarily my respect for the man beside me increased.
He made many remarks worth recording, among these this:
"It is a very common mistake among men that they must rule their wives."
This was nearly four years ago, before the diffusion of the woman's rights question, now so generally discussed.The words, and his manner of saying them, gave me a clew to the track of his observations, if not his experience.
I glanced at the stern contour of his face, the unquiet glance of his eye, and chose to believe the latter.
Suddenly his manner changed.
"Mr. Cathmor, I have a fancy to receive your congratulations first.I am to be married in a few days, and bring my wife to the Ocean House," he said.
I expressed the pleasure his manner conveyed to me.
"My little girl will like this place, I think," he said.
The singular sweetness of his smile charmed me.After a moment he took a little oval miniature case from his breast and handed it to me.It contained a sweet, pure, earnest face—a sparkle in the modest eyes, too, that told of exuberant life.
"That is what I call lovable," I exclaimed, in enthusiasm.
My praise seemed to touch him to the quick.
"I think so, too," he answered, quietly, putting the picture back in its hiding-place, with a moment's happy abstraction.
We drove fleetly up to the door.A little knot of men gathered about the horses as usual.I went up to my room with a new item for thought.
The next day Colonel Staniels took the boat for New York.In three days he was back with his wife.
Brides are not generally to my taste, they are usually too suggestive of clothes, and plume themselves to a fatiguing extent.They are too demonstrative and important, too publicly tender, and too generally oppressive.But I liked Mrs. Staniels the moment I heard her glad laugh.It was a laugh, and her face was like a sunbeam.
She was not overdressed or burdened with the consciousness of her position; she did not caress her husband in public, or betray any unusual excitement.
She talked in an arch, merry little way with everybody she won to her side, telling of places, things, people, anybody but herself and the colonel.
She had just returned from Europe.She was pretty, and an heiress, but she was not spoiled.
I admired the colonel more than ever at that time.He received the ladies' congratulations and compliments on his wife with a grave sweetness; I noticed that the men did not jest with him, and that their appearance did not suggest any of the stale jokes and comments on matrimony, common to a mixed company.More than all this, their composed and friendly demeanor when together, and the quiet system of their glances, pleased me.
But I knew that Staniels was very happy.His face unbent—its only fault had been a little coldness and sternness—and revealed a warmth and geniality that made him quite resistible.
He formed the habit of coming into my room to smoke, remarking that: "Say did not like tobacco smoke."
I never saw him smoke in her presence.
The name on her wedding cards was Sarah Fay Pomfret, but this stately appellation the colonel abbreviated to the diminutive title, "Say," and it seemed to quite suit her.
One day, about three weeks after their arrival, a party of us went down the shore gunning, Colonel Staniels was of the number.
My luck was unusually good.My game bag became heavy.
Towards noon I flung myself down under a tree to rest.
In a few minutes Staniels appeared and took a seat beside me.He was out of spirits.
"What is the matter?"I asked.
He tried to smile, ruthlessly, but I saw a tear flash in his eye.
"My cursed obstinacy!I was cross to Say this morning."
He arose restlessly, and walked away.I saw that he was far from being happy, but it was a matter requiring no interference of mine.
"Who breaks—pays," I muttered, and lay flat on my back for a full hour before the rest came up.
I reached home first.
The day had been unusually hot, but a cooling breeze had sprung up as the sun set.
I entered the house, and passing up to my room met Say Spaniels, all in white, in the hall.
"Mr. Cathmor, is Eben coming?"she asked.
"He has come; he will be up directly," I answered.
"Keep still as a mouse," she whispered, "I am going to play a trick on him.Don't tell where I am—hush!"as a step sounded on the stair.
She turned and fled noiselessly into an alcove of the hall.
Staniels came rather slowly up the stairs.I thought he was deliberating what kind of a reception might greet him, fearing, perhaps, tears, pouts or frowns.
But I, seeing the merry, peeping face, knew that the matter to which he was probably keenly sensible was utterly disregarded by the sweet, healthy nature of his wife.
He entered the room, closed the door.All was silent after he crossed the floor.Say tiptoed down the hall and stood listening, her head with its glossy waves of chestnut hair bent, her red lips parted, her cheek dimpling.
Suddenly we heard the report of a pistol.She started bewildered.I leaped from my seat, and sprang past her into the room.Staniels lay dead on the floor, shot through the heart.Beside him lay the innocent paper which had caused the deed.
It was a little note saying:
"You do not love me.I have gone away.Good-by.Say."
The cheat had been too certain.With a sore conscience, and a heart in which memories of a hidden past had probably rankled all day, the husband had been thoroughly duped.The thoughts that rushed upon him maddened him; the first act was self-destruction.
And so, when I think of beautiful Marshlea, I always hear above the murmur of the sea and the songs of the birds, the dreadful shrieks of an agonized woman, whose innocent, childlike love had been the cause of so terrible a tragedy.
A WILDCAT FULL OF FIGHT.
A fierce fight between a monster wildcat and two dogs was witnessed the other day by Henry T.Frankelfield on Saw Creek, a tributary of the Bushkill, in lower Pike county, Pa.Mr. Frankelfield is the landlord of the Falls House at Resaca, Pa.He had been hearing the cries of the wildcat for several nights.A recent snowfall made excellent tracking and he started out in pursuit of the animal in company with his dogs, Sport and Watch.
The hunter had not gone far when Sport struck the trail of the wildcat.The two dogs started off with a yelp and followed the scent almost to Saw Creek and then stopped.When Frankelfield came up he found one of the dogs smelling around an old tree stump.It was evident that the cat had been there recently, but had left again, after Watch found the trail again, and the animal was traced into Little Pine Swamp.Frankelfield remained at the edge of the swamp while the dogs entered it.He heard them bark and knew that they had found their game, and he made his way to the spot.He found both dogs at the foot of an old tamarack stump which had fallen against another tree, and in the top of the stump was the wildcat eying them both.
Frankelfield took deliberate aim and discharged both barrels of his gun at the animal, but failed to kill it outright.Wounded and maddened with pain, the cat gave a loud screech, sprang from the tree stump to the ground, and landed on the back of one of the dogs.The infuriated beast got one of its paws in on Sport and almost scalped the dog, while Watch planted his teeth in the cat.Then began one of the liveliest scrapping matches Frankelfield has ever seen.Snarling and snapping, the cat fought both animals, the blood from the gunshot wounds dyeing the snow a deep red.Frankelfield watched the battle some time, and tried to shoot the animal, but the combatants seemed to be all in a snarl, and he was afraid to fire lest he should hit the dogs.It was nip-and-tuck for a long time, and the wildcat, although fighting against odds, clawed and chewed first one dog and then the other, as the trio rolled over and over.At last the cat, exhausted from loss of blood, gave up the fight and was killed by its opponents.Frankelfield carried the animal home, and intends having it mounted.It weighed forty pounds, and is the largest cat that has been killed in Poke County in many years.
A clerk in Belgrade, Servia, named Vellslaw Simmonovitch, on the strength of an increase of salary, recently telegraphed to a young woman of Losnitsa and asked her to share his fortunes.The regulation tax allows ten words for the minimum fee, and her answer ran: "Yes, gladly, willingly, joyfully, delightfully, gratefully, lovingly, yes, yes, yes."
The Dissolving Penny.—A genuine penny is held by the fingertips.You offer it to your friend, and when he attempts to take it, the penny suddenly vanishes without any trace and is immediately reproduced from some quite unexpected place.Price, 12c
CHAS.UNGER, 316 UNION ST., JERSEY CITY, N.J.
MOSSBERG WRENCH DCO.ATTLEBORO MASS.U.S.A.
DEVILINE'S WHISTLE.—Nickel plated, polished; it produces a near-piercing sound, large seller; illustration actual size.
Price, 12c., by mail.
WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W.26th St., N.Y.
MICROSCOPE.—By use of this wonderful little microscope you can magnify a drop of stagnant water until you see thousands of crawling insects; is also useful for inspecting grain, pork, linen and numerous other articles.This little instrument does equally as good work as the best microscopes and is invaluable to the household.Is made of best finished brass; size when closed one inch by two and a half inches.Price, 30c.
L.SENARENS,
347 Winthrop St. ,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
MANY TOOL KEY RING.
The wonder of the age.The greatest small tool in the world.In this little instrument you have in combination seven useful tools embracing Key Ring, Pencil Sharpener, Nail Cutter and Cleaner, Watch Opener, Cigar Clipper, Letter Opener and Screw Driver.It is not a toy, but a useful article, made of cutlery steel, tempered and highly nickeled.Therefore will carry an edge the same as any piece of cutlery.As a useful tool, nothing has ever been offered to the public to equal it.
Price, 15 cents, mailed, postpaid.
WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W.26th St., N.Y.
VANISHING CIGAR.—This cigar is made an exact imitation of a good one.It is held by a rubber cord, which with the attached safety pin, is fastened on the inside of the sleeve.When offered to a friend, as it is about to be taken, it will instantly disappear.Price by mail, postpaid, 10c.each.
Chas.Unger, 316 Union St., Jersey City, N.J.
LINK THE LINK PUZZLE.
The sensation of the day.Pronounced by all, the most baffling and scientific novelty out.Thousands have worked at it for hours without mastering it, still it can be done in two seconds by giving the links the proper twist, but unless you know how, the harder you twist them the tighter they grow.
Price, 6 cents; 3 for 15 cents; one dozen, 50 cents, by mail, postpaid.
WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W.26th St., N.Y.
CACHOO OR SNEEZING POWDER.—The greatest fun-maker of them all.A small amount of this powder, when blown in a room, will cause everyone to sneeze without anyone knowing where it comes from.It is very light, will float in the air for some time, and penetrate every nook and corner of a room.It is perfectly harmless.Cachoo is put up in bottles, and one bottle contains enough to be used from 10 to 15 times.
Price by mail, 10c.each; 3 for 25c.
WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W.26th St., N.Y.
ROUGH AND READY TUMBLERS.
These lively acrobats are handsomely decorated with the U.S.flag and with gold and silver stars and hearts.Upon placing them upon any flat surface they at once begin a most wonderful performance, climbing and tumbling over each other and chasing each other in every direction, as if this evil spirit was after them, causing roars of laughter from the spectators.They actually appear imbued with life.What causes them to cut up such antics is a secret that may not be known even to the owner of the unruly subjects.If you want some genuine fun send for a set of our tumblers.
Price, per set, 10 cents; mailed postpaid.
A.A.WARFORD, 16 Hart St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
THE GERMAN OCARINO.
A handsome metal instrument, made in Germany, from which peculiar but sweet music can be produced.Its odd shape, which resembles a torpedo boat, will attract much attention.We send instructions with each instrument, by the aid of which any one can in a short time play any tune and produce very sweet music on this odd looking instrument.
Price 10 cents by mail postpaid.
WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W.26th St., N.Y.
TRICK PUZZLE PURSE.—The first attempt usually made to open it, is to press down the little knob in the centre of purse, when a small needle runs out and stabs them in the finger, but does not open it.You can open it before their eyes and still they will be unable to open it.Price by mail, postpaid, 25c.each.
FRANK ROBINSON, 311 W.44th St., N.Y.
THE JOKER'S CIGAR.
The biggest sell of the season.A real cigar made of tobacco, but secreted in center of cigar about one-half inch from end is a fountain of sparklets.The moment the fire reaches this fountain hundreds of sparks of fire burst forth in every direction, to the astonishment of the smoker.The fire is stage fire, and will not burn the skin or clothing.After the fireworks the victim can continue smoking the cigar to the end.
Price, 10 cents; 3 for 25 cents; 1 dozen, 90 cents, mailed, postpaid.
WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W.26th St., N.Y.
JAPANESE TRICK KNIFE.—You can show the knife and instantly draw it across your finger, apparently cutting deep into the flesh.The red blood appears on the blade of the knife, giving a startling effect to the spectators.The knife is removed and the finger is found in good condition.Quite an effective illusion.Price by mail, 10c.each.
WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W.26th St., N.Y.
Good Luck Banks
Price 10 Cents
Ornamental as well as useful.Made of highly nickeled brass.It holds just One Dollar.When filled it opens itself.Remains locked until refilled.Can be used as a watchcharm.Money refunded if not satisfied.
347 WINTHROP ST.,
BROOKLYN, N.Y.
HAPPY HOOLIGAN JOKER
With this joker in the lappel of your coat, you can make a dead shot every time.Complete, with rubber ball and tubing.
Price, 15 cents, by mail, postpaid.
Chas.Unger, 316 Union St., Jersey City, N.J.
THE GREAT FIRE EATER.
A great Sensational Trick of the Day! With the Fire Eater in his possession any person can become a perfect salamander, apparently breathing fire and ejecting thousands of brilliant sparks from his mouth, to the horror and consternation of all beholders. Harmless fun for all times, seasons and places. If you wish to produce a decided sensation in your neighborhood don't fail to procure one. We send the Fire Eater with all the materials, in a handsome box, the cover of which is highly ornamented with illustrations in various colors. Price of all complete only 15 cents, or 4 boxes for 50 cents, mailed postpaid; one dozen by express $1.20.
N. B. —Full printed instructions for performing the trick accompany each box, which also contains sufficient material for giving several exhibitions.
FRANK ROBINSON, 311 W.44th St., N.Y.
THE SURPRISE BOUQUET.
The best practical joke of the season.This beautiful button-hole bouquet is made of artificial flowers and leaves which so closely resemble natural flowers that not one person in a thousand would detect the difference.After placing the bouquet in your button-hole you call the attention of a friend to its beauty and fragrance.He will very naturally step forward and smell of it, when, to his utter astonishment, a fine stream of water will be thrown into his face.Where the water comes from is a mystery, as you can have your hands at your side or behind you, and not touch the bouquet in any manner.You can give one dozen or more persons a shower bath without removing the bouquet from your button-hole, and after the water is exhausted it can be immediately refilled without removing it from your coat.Cologne can be used in place of water when desired.We have many funny things in our stock, but nothing that excels this.
Price, complete in a beautiful box, with full printed instructions, 25 cents, or three for 60 cents; by mail post paid.
Chas.Unger, 316 Union St., Jersey City, N.J.
IMITATION GOLD TEETH.—Gold plated tooth, shape made so that it will fit any tooth.
Price, 5c., postpaid
WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W.26th St., N.Y.
CARTER AEROPLANE No.1
Will fly on a horizontal line 150 feet!Can be flown in the house, and will not injure itself nor anything in the room.The most perfect little aeroplane made.
The motive power is furnished by twisted rubber bands contained within the tubular body of the machine.It is actuated by a propeller at each end revolving in opposite directions.Variation in height may be obtained by moving the planes and the balance weight.It can be made to fly either to the right or the left by moving the balance sidewise before it is released for flight.PRICE 35 Cents Each, Delivered.
L.Senarens, 347 Winthrop St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
SNAKES IN THE GRASS.
Something entirely new, consisting of six large cones, each one nearly one inch in height.Upon lighting one of these cones with a match, you see something similar to a 4th of July exhibition of fireworks.Sparks fly in every direction, and as the cone burns down it throws out and is surrounded with what appears to be grass; at the same time a large snake uncoils himself from the burning cone, and lazily stretches out in the grass, which at last burns to ashes, but the snake remains as a curiosity unharmed.They are not at all dangerous, and can be set off in the parlor if placed on some metal surface that will not burn.An ordinary dust pan answers the purpose nicely.
Price of the six cones, packed in sawdust, in a strong wooden box, only 10 cents, 3 boxes for 25 cents, 1 dozen boxes 75 cents, sent by mail post paid.
M.O'NEILL, 425 W.56th St., N.Y.
COMICAL RUBBER STAMPS.
A complete set of five grotesque little people made of indestructible rubber mounted on black walnut blocks. The figures consist of Policeman, Chinaman, and other laughable figures as shown in pictures. As EACH figure is mounted on a separate block, any boy can set up a regular parade or circus by printing the figures in different positions. With each set of figures we send a bottle of colored ink, an ink pad and full instructions. Children can stamp these pictures on their toys, picture books, writing paper and envelopes, and they are without doubt the most amusing and entertaining novelty gotten up in years. Price of the complete set of Rubber Stamps, with ink and ink pad, only 10 cents, 3 sets for 25 cents, one dozen 90 cents, by mail postpaid.
L.Senarens, 347 Winthrop St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
ELECTRIC PUSH BUTTON.—The base is made of maple, and the center piece of black walnut, the whole thing about 1-1/4 inches in diameter, with a metal hook on the back so that it may be slipped over edge of the vest pocket.Expose to view your New Electric Bell, when your friend will push the button expecting to hear it ring.As soon as he touches it, you will see some of the liveliest dancing you ever witnessed.The Electric Button is heavily charged and will give a smart shock when the button is pushed.
Price 10c., by mail, postpaid.
WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W.26th St., N.Y.
THE FLUTOPHONE.—A new musical instrument, producing the sweetest dulcet tones of the flute.The upper part of the instrument is placed in the mouth, the lips covering the openings in the centre.Then by blowing gently upon it you can play any tune desired as easily as whistling.But little practice is required to become a finished player.It is made entirely of metal, and will last a lifetime.We send full instructions with each instrument.
Price, 15c., or 2 for 25c., by mail, postpaid.
A.A.WARFORD, 16 Hart St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Good Luck Puzzle
It consists of three horseshoes fastened together.Only a very clever person can take off the closed horseshoe from the two linked horseshoes.But it can be done in a moment when the secret is known.
Price by mail, 10 cents each
FRANK ROBINSON, 311 W.44th St., N.Y.
THE MAGIC CARD BOX.
One of the best and cheapest tricks for giving parlor or stage exhibitions.The trick is performed as follows: You request any two persons in your audience to each select a card from an ordinary pack of cards, you then produce a small handsome box made to imitate pebbled leather, which anyone may examine as closely as they will.You now ask one of the two who have selected cards to place his or her card inside the box, which being done, the lid is shut, and the box placed on the table.You then state that you will cause the cards to disappear and upon opening the box the card has vanished and the box found empty.The other card is now placed in the box; the lid is again closed and when the box is opened the first card appears as strangely as it went.Other tricks can be performed in various ways.You may cause several cards to disappear after they are placed in the box, and then you can cause them all to appear at once.You may tear a card up, place it in the box, and on lifting the cover it will be found whole and entire.In fact, nearly every trick of appearance and disappearance can be done with the Magic Card Box.
Full printed instructions by which anyone can perform the different tricks sent with each box.
Price 20 cents, by mail postpaid.
WOLFF NOVELTY CO., 29 W.26th St., N.Y.
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554 The Liberty Boys' Young Spy; or, Learning the Enemy's Plans.
555 The Liberty Boys' Runaway Battle; or, Foiling a Tory Plot.
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305 On His Own Hook; or, Making a Losing Business Pay.
306 Lucky Jim; or, $100,000 from Stocks.(A Wall Street Story.)
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308 The Mystery of the Mining Chart, and the Wall Street Boy Who Solved it.
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684 Fighting for Greece; or, Three Yankee Boys Against the Turks.By Gen.Jas.A.Gordon.
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689 Wall Street Will; or, Winning a Fortune in a Week.By A Retired Banker.
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622 The Bradys in the Coal Mines; or, The Mystery of Shaft No.10.
623 The Bradys and the Voodoo Queen; or, A Dark Case From San Juan Hill.
624 The Bradys and the Boy Spy; or, Solving a Secret of Seven Years.
625 The Bradys and the Missing Money; or, Shadowing a Suspected Man.
626 The Bradys' Chinatown Case; or, The Hidden Den of Pell Street.
627 The Bradys and the Double Daggers; or, The Secret Sign of Vengeance.
628 The Bradys and "Old Breaklock"; or, Trapping a Desperate Crook.
629 The Bradys on a Raid; or, Rounding Up the Circus Fakirs.
630 The Bradys and the Snake Charmer; or, The Search for the Hindoo Idol.
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632 The Bradys and the Dumb Boy; or, The Fate of Messenger No.9.
633 The Bradys and the Blind Chinaman; or, The White Slaves of Mott Street.
634 The Bradys Tracking a Skeleton Arm; or, The Clew in the Tree.
635 The Bradys and the Factory Boy; or, The Mystery of the Mill Pond.
636 The Bradys and the Poisoned Pen; or, Foiling a Desperate Plot.
637 The Bradys Chasing the Black Crook; or, Solving a Fifth Avenue Mystery.
638 The Bradys and the Banker's Boy; or, The Kidnappers of Mulberry Bend.
639 The Bradys After the Gold Brick Men; or, Chasing a Gang of Swindlers.
640 The Bradys and the Diamond Heart; or, The Mystery of a Mummy.
641 The Bradys' Red Glove Clew; or, The Secret Band of Seven.
642 The Bradys and the Man Next Door; or, The Mystery House on High Street.
643 The Bradys' Case in Chinatown; or, Tracking the Hip Sing Tong.
644 The Bradys and the Mad Barber; or, Solving a Singular Secret.
645 The Bradys' Six Days' Chase; or, Running Down a Clever Crook.
646 The Bradys and the Black Dwarf; or, Working Up a Poison Clew.
647 The Bradys' Masked Foe; or, The Man With the Missing Finger.
648 The Bradys and the Sneak Thieves; or, Running Down the Red Hook Gang.
649 The Bradys Working a "Blind"; or, The Secret of the Sealed Room.
650 The Bradys and the Laundry Check; or, A Dangerous Hunt in Chinatown.
651 The Bradys on a Hot Trail; or, The Boy Who Escaped From Sing Sing.
652 The Bradys and the Conspirators; or, The Case That Came From Mexico.
653 The Bradys After the Second Story men; or, Tracking a Box of Treasure.
654 The Bradys and the Mad Student; or, The Mystery of the Medical College.
655 The Bradys' Desperate Deal; or, Foiling a Slick Bunch.
656 The Bradys and the Brass-Bound Chest; or, The Case Which Came Out of the Sea.
657 The Bradys Leather Locket Clew; or, The Secret of the Old Grave Yard.
658 The Bradys after a Chinese Princess; or, The Yellow Fiends of Frisco.
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OUR TEN-CENT HAND BOOKS
No.43.HOW TO BECOME A MAGICIAN.—Containing the grandest assortment of magical illusions ever placed before the public.Also tricks with cards, incantations, etc.
No.45.THE BOYS OF NEW YORK MINSTREL GUIDE AND JOKE BOOK.—Something new and very instructive.Every boy should obtain this book, as it contains full instructions for organizing an amateur minstrel troupe.
No.48.HOW TO BUILD AND SAIL CANOES.—A handy book for boys, containing full directions for constructing canoes and the most popular manner of sailing them.Fully illustrated.
No.49.HOW TO DEBATE.—Giving rules for conducting debates, outlines for debates, questions for discussion, and the best sources for procuring information on the questions given.
No.50.HOW TO STUFF BIRDS AND ANIMALS.—A valuable book, giving instructions in collecting, preparing, mounting and preserving birds, animals and insects.
No.51.HOW TO DO TRICKS WITH CARDS.—Containing explanations of the general principles of sleight-of-hand applicable to card tricks; of card tricks with ordinary cards, and not requiring sleight-of-hand; of tricks involving sleight-of-hand, or the use of specially prepared cards.Illustrated.
No.52.HOW TO PLAY CARDS.—Giving the rules and full directions for playing Euchre, Cribbage, Casino, Forty-Five, Rounce, Pedro Sancho, Draw Poker, Auction Pitch, All Fours, and many other popular games of cards.
No.53.HOW TO WRITE LETTERS.—A wonderful little book, telling you how to write to your sweetheart, your father, mother, sister, brother, employer; and, in fact, everybody and anybody you wish to write to.
No.54.HOW TO KEEP AND MANAGE PETS.—Giving complete information as to the manner and method of raising, keeping, taming, breeding, and managing all kinds of pets; also giving full instructions for making cages, etc. Fully explained by twenty-eight illustrations.
No.55.HOW TO COLLECT STAMPS AND COINS.—Containing valuable information regarding the collecting and arranging of stamps and coins.Handsomely illustrated.
No.56.HOW TO BECOME AN ENGINEER.—Containing full instructions how to become a locomotive engineer; also directions for building a model locomotive; together with a full description of everything an engineer should know.
No.58.HOW TO BE A DETECTIVE.—By Old King Brady, the well-known detective.In which he lays down some valuable rules for beginners, and also relates some adventures of well-known detectives.
No.59.HOW TO MAKE A MAGIC LANTERN.—Containing a description of the lantern, together with its history and invention.Also full directions for its use and for painting slides.Handsomely illustrated.
No.60.HOW TO BECOME A PHOTOGRAPHER.—Containing useful information regarding the Camera and how to work it; also how to make Photographic Magic Lantern Slides and other Transparencies.Handsomely illustrated.
No.62.HOW TO BECOME A WEST POINT MILITARY CADET.—Explains how to gain admittance, course of Study, Examinations, Duties, Staff of officers, Post Guard, Police Regulations, Fire Department, and all a boy should know to be a cadet.By Lu Senarens.
No.63.HOW TO BECOME A NAVAL CADET.—Complete instructions of how to gain admission to the Annapolis Naval Academy.Also containing the course of instruction, description of grounds and buildings, historical sketch, and everything a boy should know to become an officer in the United States Navy.By Lu Senarens.
No.64.HOW TO MAKE ELECTRICAL MACHINES.—Containing full directions for making electrical machines, induction coils, dynamos, and many novel toys to be worked by electricity.By R.A.R.Bennett.Fully illustrated.
No.65.MULDOON'S JOKES.—The most original joke book ever published, and it is brimful of wit and humor.It contains a large collection of songs, jokes, conundrums, etc., of Terrence Muldoon, the great wit, humorist, and practical joker of the day.
No.66.HOW TO DO PUZZLES.—Containing over three hundred interesting puzzles and conundrums, with key to same.A complete book.Fully illustrated.
No.67.HOW TO DO ELECTRICAL TRICKS.—Containing a large collection of instructive and highly amusing electrical tricks, together with illustrations.By A.Anderson.
No.68.HOW TO DO CHEMICAL TRICKS.—Containing over one hundred highly amusing and instructive tricks with chemicals.By A.Anderson.Handsomely illustrated.
No.69.HOW TO DO SLEIGHT-OF-HAND.—Containing over fifty of the latest and best tricks used by magicians.Also containing the secret of second sight.Fully illustrated.
No.70.HOW TO MAKE MAGIC TOYS.—Containing full directions for making Magic Toys and devices of many kinds.Fully illustrated.
No.71.HOW TO DO MECHANICAL TRICKS.—Containing complete instructions for performing over sixty Mechanical Tricks.Fully illustrated.
No.72.HOW TO DO SIXTY TRICKS WITH CARDS.—Embracing all of the latest and most deceptive card tricks, with illustrations.
No.73.HOW TO DO TRICKS WITH NUMBERS.—Showing many curious tricks with figures and the magic of numbers.By A.Anderson.Fully illustrated.
No.74.HOW TO WRITE LETTERS CORRECTLY.—Containing full instructions for writing letters on almost any subject; also rules for punctuation and composition, with specimen letters.
No.75.HOW TO BECOME A CONJURER.—Containing tricks with Dominoes, Dice, Cups and Balls, Hats, etc. Embracing thirty-six illustrations.By A.Anderson.
No.76.HOW TO TELL FORTUNES BY THE HAND.—Containing rules for telling fortunes by the aid of lines of the hand, or the secret of palmistry.Also the secret of telling future events by aid of moles, marks, scars, etc. Illustrated.
No.77.HOW TO DO FORTY TRICKS WITH CARDS.—Containing deceptive Card Tricks as performed by leading conjurers and magicians.Arranged for home amusement.Fully illustrated.
No.78.HOW TO DO THE BLACK ART.—Containing a complete description of the mysteries of Magic and Sleight-of-Hand, together with many wonderful experiments.By A.Anderson.Illustrated.
No.79.HOW TO BECOME AN ACTOR.—Containing complete instructions how to make up for various characters on the stage; together with the duties of the Stage Manager, Prompter, Scenic Artist and Property Man.
No.80.GUS WILLIAMS' JOKE BOOK.—Containing the latest jokes, anecdotes and funny stories of this world-renowned German comedian.Sixty-four pages; handsome colored cover containing a half-tone photo of the author.
No.81.HOW TO MESMERIZE.—Containing the most approved methods of mesmerism; animal magnetism, or, magnetic healing.By Prof. Leo Hugo Koch, A.C.S., author of "How to Hypnotize," etc.
No.82.HOW TO DO PALMISTRY.—Containing the most approved methods of reading the lines on the hand, together with a full explanation of their meaning.Also explaining phrenology, and the key for telling character by the bumps on the head.By Leo Hugo Koch, A.C.S.Fully illustrated.
No.83.HOW TO HYPNOTIZE.—Containing valuable and instructive information regarding the science of hypnotism.Also explaining the most approved methods which are employed by the leading hypnotists of the world.By Leo Hugo Koch, A.C.S.
No.84.HOW TO BECOME AN AUTHOR.—Containing information regarding choice of subjects, the use of words and the manner of preparing and submitting manuscript.Also containing valuable information as to the neatness, legibility and general composition of manuscript.
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