How to Do Chemical Tricks — A Test of Love

Make a piece of steel red in the fire, then hold it with a pair of pincers or tongs; take in the other hand a stick of brimstone and touch the piece of steel with it.

Immediately after their contact you will see the steel melt and drop like a liquid.

A Test of Love.

Put into a phial some sulphuric ether, color it red with alkanet, then saturate the tincture with spermaceti.

This preparation is solid ten degrees above freezing point, and melts and boils at twenty degrees.

Place the phial which contains it in a lady’s hand and tell her that if in love, the solid mass will dissolve.

In a few minutes the substance will become fluid.