THE PIG’S-EYE GAME.
Shut the eyes and draw the figure of an animal without taking the hand off. Still not seeing it, remove the hand and try to put the eye in its proper place.
The ludicrous outline made, and the absurd position of the eye in most attempts, are remarkable.
EVERLASTING WRITING ON GLASS.
After covering a sheet of glass with visible colour or colours, write or scratch the inscription so as to remove the pigment in those places where the pen touches. Put the glass in the furnace for the colours to set with running so as to obliterate the marks, and after the proper cooling, the writing will be unalterably fixed. Designs of transparency for a tinted ground can be thus made.
MOSS PICTURES.
Take a board with a smooth face, and stripe it lengthwise with three bands of colour sky-blue and grass green, with a pale blue or pale yellow between, which will be the sky, the middle distance and horizon, and foreground of a picture. With coloured moss, varying in tint from yellow to deep brown, form trees, bushes, hedges, foliage, &c., by glueing the sprigs. The effect is often charming.
THE PUNCTUATION PUZZLE.
Whoever writes this on the wall has ten fingers on each hand; five and twenty on hands and feet; guess who this may be.