Will L. Lindhorst 
A Bag of Tricks 

Table of Contents



How to Balance Glass on Playing Card



How ‘Spirit Trick’ Is Performed With Names Written in Squares



How to Transfer a Coin From One Hand to Another



How to Tell Card Taken From Pack by Trick ‘Spirit Writing*



How to Dip Hand Into Water and Take It Out Dry



Trouble to Spin an Egg Magician Lindhorst’s Method



How to Remove Dime Under Glass Without Touching Either



Magician Tells How to Hang Hat on Wall Without Nail or Hook



How to Invert Glass of Water Without Spilling It



How to Tell in Which Hand Coin Is Concealed



How to Fill Glass Twice Without Emptying First Contents



Tells How to Blow Candle Out Through Bottle



Here’s How You Can Add Five Matches to Six and Make Nine



Magician Tells How to Change Pack of Cards from Black to Red



Trick of Unsmashable Match Box



Trick of Swallowing a Knife



Magician Tells How Ringand Cord Trick Is Worked



Three Matches Can Be Lifted With One



How to Make a Dime Disappear

How You Can Smoke a Pipe Without Lighting It



Magician Tells How to Grasp Two Corks Between Fingers



How to Make an Ace Disappear in Deck



Taking a Coin from Under a Hat Without Touching Hat—Yourself



Magician Explains How to Change Playing Card Into Box of Matches



How to Balance Two Coins Between Your Fingers



Rubber Sponge Used to Perform Magic in Hand of Spectator



Tells How to Find a Selected Card in a Pack



Magician Breaks Stick Held Up By Paper Suspended on Knives



Clever Trick Performed With Ordinary Ruler



How to Get Water Into Glass When It Is Held Upside Down



Walking Hair Pin Trick Is Done With Knife and Quiver of Hand



Magician Makes a Cane Dance Apparently Without Support



How to Pick Up Five Bricks With One Hand Explained by Magician



Paper Placed Over Board Defies Attempt to Move It With Blow



How to Write Spectator’s Initial on Cube and Then Make Letter Appear in



How To Make Needle Float in Glass of Water



Tiny Card Standing on Edge Defies Effort to Blow It Over

Tells How to Make a Boomerang Circle Room and Land at the Feet



The Magic Egg, a Clever Trick



How to Light Candle Without Touching Flame to Its Wick



How to Knock a Card Through Table



How to Get a Loose Cork Out of Bottle Without Touching Either



How to Break Pencil With Dollar Bill



Did You Know That a Child Can Step Through a Playing Card?



Thread Supporting a Ring Can Be Burned but Still Hold It Suspended



Mysterious No. 3 Almost Always Chosen From List Marked 1, 2, 3, 4



How to Fill a Tobacco Can Twice Without Emptying First Contents



Card Can Be Taken From Under Quarter Without Moving the Coin



It’s Easy to Make a Dime on Plate Vanish, Then Find It Underneath



How to Place Spoon in a Glass Without Touching Either



Foretelling the Ending Numbers in a Domino Game Is Simple Trick



How to Perform Trick of the Mesmerized Ring



Much more…