Foe Little Folks.

Did you ever see any 011e write bis name with flamo on ï pieoe of pappr without bnrning auythiiig? The tire seems to travel ovar the snrfaco until the letters are all outlined, and then it goes out It looks very weird indeed, especially if the lights have been turued down and the performance has been preceded by a lot of storios about ghosts and other uncanny tópica. But, like the wonderful snow, it'a nothing but a trick, and any boy or girl can do it. Wbat you need are a few cents' worth of saltpeter, which you can buy at any apothecary's shop, and sorue piecea of unsized paper. Drop the saltpeter into a bowl of water until no more wil! dissolve. Then take a woodon toothpick or any other sharpened stick, dip it in the saltpeter and write whatevor you like on the paper. A regular little show might be arranged by a clever boy, or a girl either, for that matter. It might better be both. The boy could be stage manager aud teil a wonderful little tale about the way his star conjurer had been spirited away to some Rider Haggard land where she had learued sorue of the mysterious rowers over firo kuown only to tho nativos of the rioveüst's strange land. He willthen introduce mademoiselle the wizarrtess, who will proceed to do wouderf ui tliinss with the fire. She will hold the paper and the match : j her hand, and after saying the spell in the language of this strange "People of the Mist" the fire will begin to travel over the paper, perhaps spelling a motto or outlining some weird or familiar animal. Of course if yon got a good look at the papers you wonld see a pencil mark indicatiug where the match should be applied, but otherwise the paper wovild appear unmarked. The saltpeter dries quickly, aud on unglazed paper will uot show.