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YOUTHS'. DEPARTMENT*
ENIGMA—No. T.
[Th* following Bnigm* h*« been generally attributed
to tho pon of Lord Byron, but it is the production of an
Irish lady. Our young readers must try and giro ua a
poetical solution of its]
Ye Philosophers hark! My complexion is dark ;
Reflection and silence, my character mark ;
Ho record on earth discovers my birth ;
Long reignod I in solitude, silence, and death.
I travel away, in sombre array,
And my turban and sandals are silvery grey—
Majestic my mein, ray dark form is seen,
All sparkling in gems, like an African Queen.
There's ono pearl that I wear that’s moro brilliant and
rare
Than the loveliest gem in a Princess’ liair ;
My statue is tall, tho’ at seasons I crawl,
And sink myself almost to notliing at all ;
Invisibly twirled, I travel the world,
And in every land is my standard unfurled ;
I silently roll round the icy-bound Pole,
And long that wild region endures my oontrol.
Prom earliest of time I am grave and sublime,
And am often made the accomplice of crime ;
My intellect tooms with visions and dreams,
And wild tales of horror my favorite themes ;
Yet sorrow and pain oft welcome my reign,
And eagerly watch for my coming again,
For a handmaid of mine, with aspect benign,
Deals out at mv bidding a Boft anodyne.
My sister down there is transcondantly fair,
But wo never happen to meet anywhere ;
At dawning behold her banner of gold;
Then I must away, with my story half told.
ENIGMA—No. 8.
I am composed of 25 letters.
My 7,19, 3, 24, 22, 4, 13, 17, 11, 15,
G, 5, is the name of a modern epic poem.
My 5,4, 11, 18, 4,5, is the name of a
celebrated truce concluded in 1807,
Myl , 8, 25, is what God did miracu
lously for the people in the desert.
My 14, 9, 16, 23, is what gives conso
lation to the afflicted.
My 8, 19, 10, 2, 12, is the name of an
illustrious American poet.
xMy 20, 24, 10, 14, 19, 21, 11, is the
painter of the famous “Madonna di San
' Sisto.”
My whole is to every Southerner the
saddest line in the “Conquered Banner.”
Answer next week.
St. Joseph's Academy, Columbus, Go.. April 14, 18G8.
ENIGMA—No. 9.
I am composed of 28 letters.
My 28, 23, 6, 15, 13, 9, 26, 24, is an
ancient name for the brightest planet.
My 22, IG, 3, 17, is the remaining
spark of life for the South.
My 1, 13, 3, 28, 5, 26, 7, is au ancient
king of Ethiopia.
My 18, 22, 13, 7, 23,26, 24, one of the
most famous heroes of antiquity.
My n, 10, 21, was formerly used in
the signification of “to know.”
My 4,2, 19, 27, is a renter of lands in
the East Indies.
My 12, 17, 11, 27, 25, 12, is the name
of an eminent English philosopher.
My 8, 25,14, is a cape on New Eng
land’s shores.
My 20, 9, 13, 5, is what every South
erner hopes ere long to be.
My whole is the honorable title given
to the Poet-Patriot of the South.
Answer next week.
Rubie.
St. Joscj)h's Academy, Columbus, Go., April 15, 18G8.
Answers to Last Week’s Enigma.—
No s—Still Water Runs Peep :Rat—
Win-er—Peter —Sandal —Lip—Aie—Rsll
—Peer —Saturn.
No. G—Rev. Abram J. Ryan : Reb—
Mary—Jamb —Nay—Barn-Jean —\ ary
—Ram.
E. B.
Augusta, Ga., April, 16,1868.
.«*.
Florence.—Your answers to last week s
enigmas arc correct.
Rosa, H. 8., Jimmie, Herschel, have
all sent correct answers.
FAMILIAR SCIENCE,
[Prepared for the Banner of the South by Uncle Buddy.]
Lightning is what is called accumula
tive electricity discharged from the clouds.
This electricity is produced by various
causes, as for instance the evaporation
from the earth’s surface, the chemical
changes which take place on the caiths
surface,£ and currents ol air ot unequal
temperature which excite electricity by
friction as they come in contact with
each other.
The discharge of an electric cloud is
caused by the overcharged cloud ap
proaching another undercharged, where
upon the fluid rushes from the former into
th<Tlatter till both contain the same quan
tity.
There are are two kinds of electricity,
one vitrious and the other resinous, more
frequently called positive gnd negative
electricity.
Mountains, trees and steeples, or other
elevated points will sometimes discharge
the lightning from a clond floating near
them, and sometimes tho electric fluid
rushes out of the earth into the clouds.
These clouds are sometimes four or five
miles high, and sometimes they actually
touch the earth with one of their edges.
They” are seldom, however, discharged in
’a thunder storm when they are more than
700 yards above the surface of the earth.
In a fine day the clouds arc often four
or five miles above us, but their average
height is from one and a hall to two miles.
You have seen what is called “forked
lightning.” This is produced by the
cloud being at a great distance, and the
resistance of the air so great that the
electric current is diverted into a zigzag
course. The lightning condenses the air
in its path, and so flies from side to side
in order to pass where there is tho least
resistance. In very severe storms the
flash divides itself into two or more parts,
and so produces two flashes of lorKed
lightning at the same moment. When
the lightning cloud is near the earth the
flash meets with very little resistance,
and hence is quite straight. Sheet light
ning is the reflection of distant flashes,
not distinctly visible, or beneath the hori
zon, or else a number of flashes together.
Lightning is sometimes globular and
this is the most dangerous form.
The flash generally produces a change
in the physical condition of the air, ren
dering it unable to hold as much water in
solution as it could before in consequence
of which a part is given oil in heavy
rain. This charge generally causes gusts
of wind also. In summer, or “heat light
ning” as it is called, we have no thunden
on account of the distance of the cloud.
Lightning from the earth to the cloud is
popularly called the “returning stroke,”
because, the earth being overcharged, re
turns the surplus quantity to the clouds.
Lightning is more common in summer
and autumn than in spring and winter,
because the heat of the former seasons
produce great evaporation, and the con
version of water into vapor always de
velopes electricity. The electric fluid
scorches by its own positive heat. Light
ning passes from the earth to the clouds
when the latter are in a “negative” state
of electricity : and from the clouds to the
earth when they are in a “positive” state.
When they contain more electricity than
usual they are said to be in a “positive”
state of electricity, and when less than
usual they are said to be in a “negative
state ot electricity.” The flash always
proceeds from a positive or an overcharged
body.
I’LL TAKE WHAT FATHER TAKES.
“What will you take to drink ?” asked
the waiter of a young lad, who for the
first time accompanied his father to a
public dinner. Uncertain what to say,
and feeling sure that he would not be
wrong if he followed liis father’s exam
ple, he replied, “I’ll take what father
takes.”
The answer reached his father’s car,
and instantly the responsibility of his
[position flashed upon him. If he said,
“I’ll take ale,” as he had always said be
fore, his son would take it. also, and then !
And the father shuddered as the history
of several young men, who, once promis
ing as his own bright lad, had been
ruined by strong drink, started up in sol
emn warning before him. Should his
hopes all be blasted, and that open-faced
noble lad become a burden and a curse
as they had become ? But for strong
drink they would have been active, ear
nest, prosperous men; and if it could
work such rui i upon them, was his own
lad safe ? Quicker than lightning those
thoughts passed through his mind, and
in a moment the decision was made. “If
the boy tails he shall not have me to
blame ;” and in tones tremulous with
emotion, to the astonishment of those who
knew him, said, “Waiter, I’ll take wa
ter and from that day to this, strong
drink has been banished from that man’s
table and from that man’s home.
That young lad, in the brief utterance,
was really the representative of the gen
eration to which he belongs. God has
so directed it, that a father is the highest
authority in the world to his child. Who
does not know that “My father said so,”
is the end of controversy with the little
ones around us ? Who does not see the
I parent’s tones, and gait, and maimers,
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reproduced continually in the children,
whose nature is now “soft as wax to re
ceive an impression, and rigid as marble
to retain itand who watch with a
quick and an imitating eye, those who, to
them, are God’s viccregent’s !
Would that we could impress upon the
fathers and mothers of this country tho
solemn fact that the future character of
the children is being formed by them.
That if they are trained up in the way
they should go, when they are old they
will not depart from it. But if they be
come vain, sensual, and degraded, the
seeds will have been deposited, and the
bias given in the early morning of their
lives. If we teach them that strong
drink is a good creature of God, they
will believe us ; and when, depending
upon our judgment and truth, they shall
have taken it, and it shall have shown it
self to be the devil’s masterpiece, and
have birUn, crushed, and dragged them
down to ruin, we may weep and pray as
we please ; the blame will be our own,
and we must not accuse God, or cast re
flection upon the Gospel. We shall havo
sown to the flesh and of the flesh have
reaped corruption. God will have visited
the sins of the father upon..the children.
They only took what their fathers took.
If, on the other hand, we banish the
fiends from our homes, and in the hours
when their young and trusting hearts are
most open to our teaching, we tell them
that wine is a mocker, that strong drink
is raging, and warn them that no serpent
is so dangerous, no adder so much to be
dreaded, we shall be co-workers with that
all-merciful and wise God, who, to pre
serve them from taking it, has sent them
into the world with a loathing of its
taste. Our children will believe us. They
will grow up with natural instinct, forti
fied by our instructions and examples.
They will be preserved from the poisonous
influences of the destroyer. There will
be a bridgeless gulf between them, and
the companions who are most likely to
lead them into the ways of sin. They
will be preserved from habits of extrava
gance and waste. They will have no
companions but those who walk in the
ways of God, no employment for their
spare time, but that which is elevating
and purifying ; and when we pass to our
reward, they will rise up and call us
blessed, for they “took what their father’s
took.”— Exchange.
RULES EOR YOUNG MEN.
Keep good company or none.
Never be idle. If your hands cannot
be usefully employed, attend to the cul- ’
tivation of your mind.
Always speak the truth.
Make few promises.
Live up to your engagements.
Have no very intimate friends.
Keep your own secrets, if you have any.
When you speak to a person, look him
in the face.
Good company and conversation are
the very sinews of virtue.
Good character is above all things else.
Never listen to loose or idle conversa
tion.
You bad better be poisoned in your
blood than in your character.
Your character cannot be essentially
injured except by your own acts.
If any one speaks evil of you, let your
life be so virtuous that none will believe
him.
Always speak and act as in the pre
sence of God.
Drink no intoxicating liquors.
Ever live, misfortune excepted, within
your income.
When you retire to bed, think over
what you have done during the day.
Never play at any kind of game.
Avoid temptation through fear that you
may not withstand it.
Earn your money before you spend it.
Never run in debt, unless you see a way
to get out again.
Always go to church when you can.
Road some portion of the Bible, or
some other good book, every day.
Never borrow, if you can possibly
avoid it.
Be just before you are generous.
Keep yourself innocent, if you would
be happy.
Save when you are young, to spend
when you are old.
Never think that which you do for re
ligion is time or money misspent.
Another admirable specimen of Robie’s
peculiar skill in fruit and flower painting
lias just been put on exhibition at Sehaus’
Gallery. It is entitled “Autumn,” and
symbolizes the glories of the season in a
glimpse of the vineyard, with its clusters
of purple and amber grapes gleaming
among the brilliantly pencilled foliage.
It is rich, soft, ami glowing, and pleases
the eye with its fine harmonies of color
and form, no less than the mind with its
generous interpretation of the spirit of the
crowning months of the year.
WIT AND HUMOR.
The gallant young officer to whom al
lusion is made in the following anecdote
will be remembered by many persons in
this city, says the Louisville, (Ky*,)
Courier. He was for some time associ
ated with the wholesale house of J. M.
Robinson & Cos. Lieut A. R. Boteler is
the son of a former distinguished Whig
member of Congress from Virginia :
TIIE STAMMERING LIEUTENANT.
During the battle of Trevillian,s sta
tion, Virginia, in June, 1864, between
the Confederate cavalry, under General
Wade Hampton, and that of tho enemy
under Sheridan. General Butler’s divi
sion had dismounted and advanced some
distance on foot, and were seriously en
gaged, when it was discovered that the
enemy had flanked around and suoceeded
in capturing the horses of Butler’s sharp
shooters, as well as the ordnance wagons
of the cavalry corps.
At this critical moment, General Ros
ser, at the head of the laurel brigade,
came up, and seeing how matters stood,
attacked the Federals and recaptured
Butler’s horses and ordnance wagons.
Lieut. A. R, Boteler, of the ordnance
departmennt, seeing Gen. Rosser, rode
towards him for the purpose of acknowl
edging the service he (R.)had done him
(B.) in saving his train ; but Boteler was
such a stammerer that Rosser could not
wait to hear his remarks, and, as he rode
away, he said :
“Lieut. Boteler, I will leave a courier
with you, and he ean report to me when
you get done telling him.”
Whether Lieut. Boteler ever told the
courier what he intended telling the Gen
eral, or not, your correspondent does not
know.
During the war a regiment of Arkan
sas men was marching one day knee deep
in mud, a part of them dragging a heavy
cannon. An officer riding by was hailed
by one of them with the remark : “Wa’al,
Colonel, I’ll go through with you this
hith, but if you have any more Unions to
break up, you may just bet yer life 1 ain’t
thar.”
“John/ said a stingy curmudgeon to
his hired man, as ho was taking dinner,
“do you know how many pancakes you’ve
eaten ?” “No.” “Well, you’e eaten four
ten.” “Well,” said John, “you count
and I’ll eat,”
A publisher of a newspaper out West,
in the first issue of his journal, returns his
thanks to those who loaned him the pecu
niary means, and gratitude toheaven that
there is no law in the State enforcing im
prisonment for death.
A steward wrote to a bookseller in Lon
don for some books to fit up his master’s
library, in the following terms : “In the
first place I want six feet of theology, the
same quantity of metaphysics, and near
a yard of civil law in folio.”
“Can I bid, Mister ?” roared out a
country looking individual at a recent
auction in Boston. “Certainly you can,”
replied the auctioneer, (with a gracious
bow) ; “any one can bid that wants to.”
“Well, sir,” replied the fellow, “then I
bid you good night,” and pushed his way
out into the street.
A bright little girl, eight or nine years
old, who had heard much talk upon the
subject of woman’s rights and woman’s
wrongs, came home one day and asked in
a somewhat indignant tone, “Mamma,
what makes the minister always say amen
Why don’t he ever say u woman ?”
A Paris paper prints this advertise
ment :
“A young lady of forty-eight, having
a model ate income, but possessing a patent
for anew invention, wishes to marry a
gentleman of sixty-five well versed in
chemistry.
Beau Brummel was asked tho ques
tion what constitutes a gentleman ?
“Starch, my lord.”
“Steel your heart,” said a considerate
father to his son, “for you arc going
among some fascinating girls.” “I had
rather steal theirs,” said the promising
young man.
A man with a very large Dald head
was complimented on the fact that his ca
put was analogous to Greenland. /Why
so ?” he arked. “Because it is a great
white bare place,” was the reply.
A little three-year old girl, on being
told that she was too little to have a muff,
asked indignantly, “Am I too little to be
cold ?”
In consideration of this being leap
year, the Clerk of St. Joseph county, In
diana, has concluded to issue marriage
licenses free of charge, to all ladies who
apply for them in person.
An Irish magistrate, censuring some
boys for loitering in the streets, asked ‘ ‘if
everybody were to stand in the streets,
how anybody could get by ?”
From tha 5. Y. Home Journal.
LITERATURE AND ART ITEMS.
Her Majesty’s Theatre is to be rebuilt.
The Prince of Wales will lay the first
stone on his return from Ireland. Mr.
Charles Lee is to* be the architect, and
the cost is to be £65,000. It is expected
that tho new buildings will be ready for
the lessees next season.
Duprez, the celebrated tenor, has just
completed an oratorio, “ The Last Judg
raent,” both words and music being by
him. It will be brought out next month,
at the Cirque de l’lmperatrice, Duprez
himself singing the recitatives.
Anew opera of “ Hamlet,” composed
M. Aristide Hignard, libretto by M. Gavel,
will soon be produced in Paris.
Auber’s “ Premier Jour de Bonlicur”
is given four times a week at the Opera
Comique, such is its attraction.
Adelina Patti’s Leoiiora , in the “ Tro
vatore,” has proved a great hit; she
sang it three times in one week.
A young Milanese, named Agostino
Boito, has composed an opera called
“ Mephistopliiles,” which lias been pro
duced at La Scala with considerable suc
cess, but has given rise to a great contro
versy, several feuilletonists stating that it
is nothing more than a plagiarism from
other operas. A duel, of course, has
been fought over the matter, and one of
the feuilletonists wounded.
At the seventh representation of Thomas ’
“ Hamlet,” in Paris, the receipts were
11,246 francs.
A gold medal is offered by the Cobden
Club as a reward for the best essay “ On
the best way of developing improved po
litical and commercial relations between
Great Britain and the United States of
America.” The essays arc to be sent in
before next January.
Madame Musard has purchased the
celebrated Cross diamonds for £24,000.
It appears the set belonged to the Queen
of Spain, and originally contained a frag
ment of the true Cross beneath the en
graved symbol on the central stone. The
fragment was removed previous to the
sale.
D. Appleton A Cos. announce among
their new works to appear this week,
“ Dora,” by 7 Julia Kavanagh ; “ Not
Wisely but too Well,” by the author of
“ Cometh up as a Flower,” and the Globe
edition of “Hudibras.”
It is said that one of the theatres in
Paris is about to produce a piece written
expressly for a danseuse and a fountain !
Most extraordinary effects, in the shape
of water, light, and naiads are to be pro
duced from this fountain. It is a German
invention, and called Riese- Wunder-
Fontaine; in Greek it is named the
Kalospiniecro moci'ene, and in French the
Fo ntai ne-monstre-m erveille use.
A collection of about two hundred water
color drawings, and a variety cf objets
d'art , selected by Mr. S. P. Avery during
his recent sojourn in Paris, are now on
exhibition at the Fifth Avenue Art Gal
leries, corner of Fourteenth street, New
York. The water-color drawings com
prise specimens of more than one hun
dred different artists, and some of them
are executed with charming delicacy and
finish. Among the many interesting ar
ticles in the galleries, is a cast in bronze
of the face of Napoleon, taken after death,
at St. Helena, by his physician, Dr. An
tommarchi. Also a very interesting re
presentation in plaster, colored, of a
part of the Alhambra.
Kuntz, the sculptor, is engaged on a
statuette of Governor Jay. The work
has been undertaken by order of Hon.
.John Jay, and is to be caste in bronze.
It is intended to commemorate the form
ing of the treaty of independence in Paris,
in 1783, in which the illustrious patriot
acted as Commissioner from the United
States, and through his exertions the north
western territory was secured to this
country. This service has contributed
A True Lady.—l was once walking a
short distance behind a very handsomely
dressed young girl, and thinking, as I
looked at her beautiful clothes. “I won
der if she takes half as much pains with
her heart as she does with her body 1"
A poor old man was coming up the
walk with a loaded wheelbarrow, and just
before he reached us, he made two at
tempts to go into the yard of a small
house; but Hie gate was heavy arm
would swing back before lie could get
through.
“Wait,” said the young girl, springing
forward, “I’ll hold the gate open.” And
she held the gate until he passed in, amt
received his thanks with a pleasant smile,
as he went on.
“She deserves to have beautiful clothes,
I thought, “for a beautiful spirit dwells
in her breast.”— Little Corporal.