Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1890 — Easy Sleight of Hand. [ARTICLE]

Easy Sleight of Hand.

Take a pack of cards, having arranged the nine of clubs, ten of diamonds and ace of hear s in the middle of the pack; then present the pack to your audience, inducing or “forcing,” «s it is called, one to draw the nine of clubs, one the ten of diamonds, and a third the ace of hearts, which, hav.ng inspected, they return to the pack, which is then shuffled. An assistant next produ..js a sword, the blade of which has been thrust through three similar cards, which are attached to an elastic cord fastened to the point of the sword, nnd the cards are drawn down to the hilt, behind which they are concealed, while the tension of the elastic is held taut by being fastened at the same place. The operator then throws the pack of cards into the a : r and thrusts the sword through them, at the same instant releasing the elastic cord, with the result that the three cards are drawn up to a position near the point of the blade, thus giving the impression that they were pierced by passing through the flying pack. — Chicago Herald.