... INVISIBLE HANDS AND GHOSTLY LEGS. ACHES AND PAINS THAT ARE FELT IN MISSING LIMBS. IN an age when it is considered the duty of the inquirer to lay the axe at the root of all superstitions which cannot stand the test of inquiry, the belief, or rather the ...

... Therefore a glass held the hand and moved up and down, or from aide to side, can be distinctly seen while the hand remains invisible. The explanation of these tricks, with this knowledge, is now simple. The violins were made of glass and so were the hand ...

... grown fat enough; a few lean years will not hurt them. Arioch, this is not a conquest; it is an alliance such as any honourable man might make. Cyrus is a statesman and a warrior. Belshazzar is a sot and a laggard and a murderer to boot. Ido not think the ...

... time was in the first fulness of his vigour; the blood ran red and scalding in his veins; and never was a King more vividly a Man. Ho had the power of cool deliberation in the midst of his most arrogant passions. The first thing ho saw on reading Cairo's ...