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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 182 | 166 LATEST MAGIC in the choice of their parents. He invented a lot of useful things, among them creosote and paraffin. Neither of them smells very nice, but they don't trouble about that in Germany. "Besides being a great chemist, Von Thingany dabbled in what are called the occult sciences, and he claimed to have discovered a new force (a sort of magnetism, only different) and which, he declared, pervaded every thing in nature, espe- cially crystal. Directed by a strong will, like his own, or mine, it would do all sorts of wonderful things. It seemed to me that such a force would come in very handy for magical purposes, and I set to work to invent it over again, and I have at any rate produced something very like it. The Baron called his force 'odd,' but he spelt it 'od,' which is odd too. You must judge for yourselves whether my force is the same as his, and you can spell it which way you like. "I have only been able so far to work up a very small amount of the force, say about six-mouse- power, SO it won't turn tables, or lift pianos. I can only get it, SO far, to move a small weight like a florin or a half-dollar, and that only for a very short distance. For greater conveniences I have made this little tramway for the coin to perform upon. These wires which you see are not for it to travel on, but merely to get more equal distribution of the force. There is nothing out of the way about |