Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1913 — An Easy Trick. [ARTICLE]

An Easy Trick.

If you posess a strong magnet you can perform a very startling trick. Hang up a sheet of paper. Draw on ft with pencil a hook. Immediately behind the sheet, at the point where the hook is drawn, place your magnet Now tell your friends that you can hang on this hook a key or stool ring, or any small iron or stool object with a hole in it They will, of course, not believe you. All you need to do is to place the stool or Iron object oter the picture of the hook, and, the magnet will bold It The object will appear to have been hung on the hook. Tou can have a confederate behind the scone to remove the magnet and then ask any one to try to hang up the object Mo will, of course, tall. Then, haring given a Erl to your confederate, bo will res the magnet and you wilt operate trick again.