Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1891 — Dinner Table Tricks. [ARTICLE]

Dinner Table Tricks.

A good dinner table trick is to make an egg force its way into an ordinary wine carafe, such as is found on all well regulated dinner tables. The other accessories are some paper and a medium hard boiled egg with the shell taken off. Drop the paper lighted into a wine bottle and get the interior well heated. This expands the air within and forces part of it out. While the interior is still hot stand the egg up on end in the neck of the bottle and let it rest there. As the bottle cools off the egg will begin to force its way in, until it finally drops. Another trick, which works ,on the saino principle, is to make a banana ! peel itself, f® do this all that is wanted is a wine bottle, a ripe banana and a bit of paper wet with alcohol. Light the | paper and drop it into the bottle. When , the air in the bottle is well heated set the banana on end on top, nn‘d let it do the rest itself, as tho air on the inside cools off and contracts the outside pressure, pushing the banana down into the bottle until it has pulled itself out of it* skin.—[St. Loai* Post-Dispatch.