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So, though he guarded all his secrets of magic, he was particularly careful to keep this one to himself. But Joe protected his mouth and throat with a fire-resisting liquid, the formula for which was given him by the chemist to whom he submitted the circus tickets. The success of Joe and others of his kind depends also in this on a well known natural law.

But he was making good, and he had not yet been afflicted with the terrible disease known as "swelled head," something which ruins so many performers. Ted learned rapidly, and Joe felt that it would be safe to trust him with some of the secrets of the tricks the mixing of the fire-resisting chemicals and the like.

The furnace is round, about three feet long and three feet in diameter, built of half a dozen fire-resisting substances in layers, perforated for electric wires, with an opening through it lengthwise of the exact size of the borings in the guns and in the cube.

Many experiments, as to the extent to which the human frame could bear heat, without the destruction of the vital powers, have been tried from time to time; but so far as recollection serves, Monsieur Chabert's fire-resisting qualities are greater than those professed by individuals who, before him, have undergone this species of ordeal."

, they decided on a longer excursion: a journey to Havre, to study the fire-resisting quartz and the clay of Kimmeridge. As soon as they had stepped out of the packet-boat they asked what road led under the lighthouses. Landslips blocked up the way; it was dangerous to venture along it.

I'm a sort of paper expert, among my other chemical activities, and I'm putting these samples through a series of tests. But you'll not be interested in them." "I don't know but what I shall be," returned Joe, with sudden energy. "Since you are a paper expert I may be able to set you another task besides that of showing me the latest thing in fire-resisting liquids.

This chemical is a salt, made by roasting wolfram with soda ash, and wolfram is a native tungstate of iron and manganese. This soda preparation is used commercially in making garments fire-proof, and Joe had learned this from Mr. Herbert Waldon, the chemist. He had decided to use this instead of an alum solution, which is credited with great fire-resisting qualities.

He pointed to a bowl of red clay lying on the ground before one of the wigwams. "If you'll look, you'll see that it isn't really pottery at all. It's a basket that was woven of reeds and then smeared with clay to make it fire-resisting. The people who made that didn't know about baking clay to make it stay put. When America was discovered nearly all the tribes knew something about pottery."

Notwithstanding the fire-resisting, metalised stuff of which it was made, I noted that it was twisted and almost burnt through.

"I did that so the crowd wouldn't get into a panic. However I am going to work the trick at each performance after this, only I'm going to wear a different suit." And Joe did. He had a garment partly made of asbestos, though outwardly it did not resemble that fire-resisting material any more than do the asbestos curtains in theaters.