The Electrified Camphor

A beautiful experiment of the same nature is made with camphor. A

spoon holding a piece of lighted camphor is made to communicate with

an electrified body, as the prime conductor of a machine; while the

conductor continues electrified by keeping the machine in motion, the

camphor will throw out ramifications, and appear to shoot like a

vegetable.









AMUSEMENTS WITH C RDS.





Many of the following recreations are performed by arithmetical

calculations, and may therefore be considered as connected with

science; but as it has been the aim of this work to unite amusement

with instruction, some experiments on this subject are introduced, the

performance of which depends on dexterity of hand. As this is only to

be acquired by practice, and, after all, is merely a mechanical

operation, the study of it will produce little useful knowledge,

though it may afford much entertainment; but as it must be gratifying

to know the method by which they are performed by those persons

skilled in such manoeuvres, who publicly exhibit them to the

astonishment of the spectator, they are presented to our readers, that

when they recognize them at any of these exhibitions, their eyes may

not be in danger of deceiving their judgment.