Fig. 97.
Pass the thin long ends through a button, a perforated disc of paper, or a piece of pipe-stem, after having taken the slip of card in its loop, and unfold the large square wings.
If the bands are not shown, the way to get the little cylinder off is truly undiscoverable.
Fig. 98.
It is done, of course, by doubling the flat card till the slip can be pulled through the pipe-stem, when one of the square wings will go through it, and the release follows naturally.
TRIUMPHANT COLUMN.
Take a number of smooth true cylinders, of metal or hard wood, and, by carefully placing one upon another, rear a slender column. If the ground is firm and level, such a pillar may attain a somewhat astonishing height.
A PRETTY TRICK IN BALANCING.
