clearer and louder than any small bells.

DISTANT FIRING OF MUSKETRY.

Sounds similar to a distant discharge of musketry can be produced in a
number of ways. The tenor drum can be made to give out sounds to
resemble volleys of musketry. Leaden shot dropped into a large tin pan
will produce a good imitation. A fireman's rattle can be also used for
the same purpose.

MAGIC LIGHTNING.

Mix gunpowder with a small quantity of water and gum arabic, and with
a brush place it on a screen in the background in an irregular manner,
resembling flashes of lightning. The screen being previously painted
to resemble thunder clouds, let there be a number of distinct flashes
painted, the ends of which should be near the ante-room. At intervals
of thirty seconds, touch a lighted fusee to one of these paintings,
which will burn quickly, illuminate the clouds, and resemble lightning
flashes.

TO STAIN THE FLESH A COPPER COLOR.

To stain the flesh a copper color, as is necessary in representing
Indian characters, use Spanish brown, mixed with oil, and rub in
thoroughly.

TO MAKE WRINKLES.

Use India ink, moistened with water, softening the lines with chalk,
if necessary. Moustaches and whiskers may also be made with the same
material.

FLESH WOUNDS, &c.

Flesh wounds and blood may be represented by the use of rose pink
mixed with water.

THEATRICAL INCANTATIONS.

Dissolve crystals of nitrate of copper in spirits of wine. Light the
solution, and it will burn with a beautiful emerald green flame.
Pieces of sponge soaked in this spirit, lighted and suspended by fine
wires over the stage, produces the lambent green flames now so common
in incantation scenes; strips of flannel saturated with it, and
applied round copper swords, tridents, &c., produce, when lighted, the
flaming swords and fire forks brandished by the demons in such scenes;
indeed, the chief consumption of nitrate of copper is for these
purposes.

LIGHTS AND SHADES.

If you wish to throw the background of a tableau in shade, intervene
screens between the lights at the sides of the stage and that part of
the picture you desire to have dark; _vice versa_ with the foreground.
Particular points or characters can be more brilliantly lighted than
others by placing at the side of the stage a strong light within a
large box, open at one side, and lined with bright reflectors. Light
of different colors can be thrown successively on a picture, and made
to