Obedient to the general will
I yield to due control;
And yet the public twist me, till
They put me in a hole!
No. LVII.—COLUMBUS OUTDONE
Here is a very simple and effective little trick. Offer to balance an egg on its end on the lip of a glass bottle.
The picture shows how it is done, with the aid of a cork and a couple of silver forks.
(From “La Science Amusante”).
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Two words of equal length we here indite,
Which hold a famous father and his mate.
Embracing five, with fifty left and right,
The mother, looking both ways, keeps things straight.
Her husband, following a thousand quite,
With them has changed his sex, a funny fate,
And if this lady lose her head, she might,
Being a man, oppose the water-rate.