Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1905 — Tumbler Through a Tabla. [ARTICLE]

Tumbler Through a Tabla.

Place the spectators at some Httle distance on a level on the opposite side of the table to where you sit, having spread unperceived a handkerchief across your knees. Take a drinking glass—a tumbler with no stem is preferable—and, . covering it with paper, mold tbe covering as nearly as possible to the shape of the glass. While uttering some cabalistic phrases drop tbe glass into your handkerchief unobserved, and as tbe paper retains the shape there is no difficulty In making the lookers on believe the tumbler to be still beneath it. Passing the glass In the left band beneath the table, you now crush the paper down with your right, when the glass will appear to have been sent through the table. If a cloth is over the table the trick can be more easily performed.