Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

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Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

I have made compacts with fourteen different persons that whichever of us died first would communicate with the other if it were possible, but I have never received a word.