Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1891 — THE MAGIC DART. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE MAGIC DART.

It Is Accomplished h a Little Piece of Thread. Take an ordinary sewiDg needle of medium size, with a good sharp point. Stand at three paces distant from a door or wooden partition, and. holding the needle between your finger and thumb, try by thi owing it as strongly as you can to make it stick in the woodwork. Try as you will, however great your skill or unwearied your perseverance, you will never succeed. Now, however, pass through the eye of the needle a simple bit of thread and try again. You will succeed every time in planting the needle in the door

or piece of woodwork you have chosen for your target. The little bit of thread yon have added has transformed your needle into an effective dart, and makes its point, almost as a matter of course, strike and penetrate the object against which it is thrown. The reader will find in this experiment a reminiscence of the dart (composed of a peuholder with raper wings) which we were all familiar with at school, and which has brought many a luckless wight to grief for practicing the throwing of the javelin when he ought to have been studying Homer or Virgil. —Bouton Globe. ' A fertile brain at Decorah, lowa, has invented a speed indicator, which is to be fastened to the driver's wrist in such a way that the dial may be seen at all times. A small cord connects the movable device with the sulky wheel. A dtiver can tell by glancing at the machine how fast he is going.