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AMUSEMENT.
The following feats are appropriate for evening entertainments, fairs, etc.:—
Remembrance of a long list of words or figures.
Call a gentleman or lady from the audience to step upon the platform and write forty or fifty words, dictated by the audience, numbering each word in their order. Associate the first word with the first prompter, Hill; and the second with the second prompter, Honey, and so on. One hundred words or more may be easily remembered in this manner.
Buy twelve clock faces or dials and tack them up in a convenient place, numbering them from one to twelve. Let a person place them at different times. Twenty minutes past nine must be read 9.20. Make a word that will express the three figures, and associate it with the prompter that corresponds with the number of the clock. If the time has four figures, two words may be made.
