Part 3

Wedding.--To dream of being married, or at a wedding, is a very unfavorable dream, especially for lovers; it denotes the death of some dear friend or relation, with loss of property and severe disappointment.

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THE MINSTREL SHOW; Or, Burnt Cork Comicalities.

A new and varied collection of the best darkey wit and humor, as recited and performed by the leading minstrels of the present day. It contains Comic Songs, End Men’s Jokes and Stories, Conundrums, Darkey Dialogues, Stump Speeches, Burlesque Lectures and Monologues, Plantation Sketches, Interludes, Farces, Afterpieces, Negro Songs and Dances, Banjo Solos, Songs and Marches, etc., etc. It is not only the largest but the best collection of minstrel wit ever published, and all who enjoy a good laugh will find it just the book they want. Among the songs are: “Baby’s Got a Tooth,” “Just to Make it Pleasant for the Girls,” “A Little Beard on a Young Man Grew,” “They’re After Me,” “Get Thee Gone, Girl,” “Her Front Name Is Hanner,” “Good-by, Lize,” “Oh, Lucinda!” “Quit Your Fooling,” etc., etc. It is a book full of fun and laugh from cover to cover, and cheaper than going to the minstrels, for you get as much as you would hear at half-a-dozen entertainments for a fraction of the cost of one. It is a book of 64 large double-column pages, bound in attractive paper covers, and will be sent by mail post-paid upon receipt of only =Ten Cents=.

KEYSTONE BOOK CO., Philadelphia, Pa.

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Parlor Magic.

This valuable textbook contains complete and exhaustive directions for performing over one hundred amusing and mysterious tricks in magic and legerdemain, including sleights with dice, dominoes, cards, ribbons, rings, fruit, coin, balls, handkerchiefs, etc., etc., the whole illustrated and clearly explained with 121 engravings. The directions for performing these tricks are made so very clear by the aid of the many illustrations given that any one may readily perform them, and thus become a veritable wizard in his own circle of acquaintances. Tricks which you have seen performed by professional magicians, and which have seemed to you almost miraculous, are so clearly and fully explained in this book that you may perform them with ease. Among the tricks explained in the book are: “The Magic Coin,” “The Magic Handkerchief,” “The Dancing Egg,” “The Domino Oracle,” “The Magic Bond,” “To Swallow a Barber’s Pole,” “The Restored Ribbon,” “The Magnetized Cane,” “To Eat a Peck of Shavings, and Convert them into a Ribbon,” “The Wonderful Hat,” “The Pepper-Box Trick,” “The Bag of Eggs,” “A Watch Pounded in a Mortar,” “To Pierce the Arm with a Knife,” “The Glass of Wine Changed into a Shower of Rose Leaves,” “The Goldfish in a Vase of Ink,” and many others. “PARLOR MAGIC” is a book of 64 large, double-column pages, bound in attractive colored paper covers, and will be sent by mail post-paid upon receipt of only =Ten Cents=.

KEYSTONE BOOK CO., Philadelphia, Pa.