The Young Man's Book of Amusement
This wonderful book was published in 1854 and it contains gems of Victorian experimental science
A small selection of electrical-leaning articles has been scanned.
I like the idea of The Inconceivable Shock
The whole company may be made to partake of the shock, by joining hands, and forming a circle. The experiment may also be varied if they tread upon each other’s toes, or lay their hands upon each other’s heads
and love the sound of these amusements selected from the index:
Air, a fountain, by the pressure of.
Aeolian harp, to make.
Balloon, small, to construct and inflate.
Brilliant explosion, to cause underwater.
Barometer, an infallible.
Blue, to change to white.
Bird, to make seem as dead.
Chemical change in a fair lady's complexion
Cards, a certain number of, being shown to a person to guess that which he thought of.
Cards, to make jump out of the pack, and run on the table.
Cards, to produce a mouse from a pack of.
Cards, how to tell a person any he thinks of and convey it into a nut.
Easy method of Purloining without discovery.
Extinguish ladies' clothes, catching fire, to.
Electrical orrery.
Echo, interesting account of an.
Fire, for wheels, a slow.
Fire, for wheels, a dead.
Feather, the animated.
Ghastly appearance, to give to persons in a room.
Galvanism, sensations which it excites in some organs of sense.
Handkerchief, a, to cut and tear into pieces, and to make it whole again.
Horn, to soften.
Iron, to melt in a moment, and make it run into drops.
Jealous husbands, three.
Ideal spectrum. Impenetrable winter cloaks, made of feathers.
Learned swan.
Money augmented by an optical illusion.
Money, to melt a piece in a walnut-shell, without injuring the shell.
Magical tea-spoon.
Number nine.
Problem, ingenious, another.
Ring to put through your cheek, and then bring it on a stick.
River spectacles
Report like that of a gun, to cause with a tobacco-pipe.
Recreation with a hundred numbers, a curious.
Supernatural appearance, to give a person a.
Sympathetic ink.
Snow-ball, to keep all summer in a perfect state.
Spectre on a pedestal in the middle of the table, to produce.
Water spout, imitative.
Write in the dark, to.
White gloves of a beautiful purple, to dye.
(I think Handkerchief, a, is my favourite)
Comments: amusement
"Extinguish ladies' clothes, catching fire, to"
This has an evocative zing.
And the one just above it has an appeal all its own.
Posted by ajax bucky vernaculo at February 28, 2005 05:05 PM
Yes...
But if discovered and convicted, would one get to hear the phrase "My Learned Swan"?
Posted by boynton at February 28, 2005 05:23 PM
"Rose, the changeable" is actually Rose The Changeable; a Victorian crossdresser named Ross.
Posted by Tone The Knowledgeable at February 28, 2005 06:51 PM
I think I sniff a Limerick in the last line, Tone.
Posted by boynton at February 28, 2005 07:00 PM
...
Once purchased a gallon of gloss ...
Posted by Tone The Knowledgeable at February 28, 2005 07:06 PM
He said with a leer
"Just spoon it and smear"
And ... errr ...
... covered his plate with cos.
Posted by Tone The Knowledgeable at February 28, 2005 08:02 PM
Bravo.
And possibly, a cross-thread of Icebergs or
"When, comes to dinner, the boss..." ?
Posted by boynton at February 28, 2005 08:51 PM
a Victorian crossdresser named Ross
Once purchased a gallon of gloss
He said with a leer
"Just spoon it and smear"
And ... errr ...
We'll take it in turns to toss.
Posted by Francis Xavier Holden at February 28, 2005 09:50 PM
Those days are not long gone.
Any hearty modern lad, after more than a few cleansing ales, should be able to treat you to tableaux vivants of the followng:
Brilliant explosion, to cause underwater.
Chemical change in a fair lady's complexion
Echo, interesting account of an.
Echo, interesting account of an.
Echo, interesting account of an.
Horn, to soften.
Spectre on a pedestal in the middle of the table, to produce.
Water spout, imitative.
As a gentleman, I've left the single inuenndo here to others. T
Though my water spout is often admired but never imitated.
Posted by Nabakov at February 28, 2005 11:14 PM
FX: splendid blend.
and don't forget the dressing. Or extinguish, to.
Nabakov, Vivants indeed.
Who knew such splendour lay barely hidden under the surface of a little parlour galvanism and invisible ink? And I didn't go near the candles...
Posted by boynton at March 1, 2005 01:19 PM
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