An Old Trick Well Done Is Far

To Cause The Face To Appear In A Mass Of Flame Make Use Of The Following: Mix Together Thoroughly Petroleum, Lard, Mutton Tallow And Quick Lime. Distill This Over A Charcoal Fire, And The Liquid Which Results Can Be Burned On The Face Without Harm.

Only One Man Ever Betrayed My Confidence, And That Only In A Minor Matter.

The Great Trouble With Magicians Is The Fact That They Believe When They Have Bought A Certain Trick Or Piece Of Apparatus, And Know The Method Of Procedure, That They Are Full-fledged Mystifiers.

But It Must Not Be Thought That I Say This Out Of Personal Experience: For In The Many Years That I Have Been Before The Public My Secret Methods Have Been Steadily Shielded By The Strict Integrity Of My Assistants, Most Of Whom Have Been With Me For Years.

Eating Coals Of Fire Has Always Been One Of The Sensational Feats Of The Fire Kings, As It Is Quite Generally Known That Charcoal Burns With An Extremely Intense Heat.