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YOUTHS’ DEPARTMENT.
ENIGMA—No 22.
I am composed of 25 letters .
My 3, 13, 16, 17, 23, 22, is the name
of a heathen goddess.
My 12, 14, 18, 6, 21, is the name of a
woman who had a preeminent pai t in a
celebrated war.
My 15, 22, 7,8, 13, 17, is the name
of a vehicle.
My 19, 22, 20, 1,8, is a name given
to a landed proprietor in Scotland.
My 11, 12, 4,3, 13, 15, is the French
name for horse.
My 19, 22, 3,6, 21, 8,2, 5, is the name
of an aromatic plant.
My 9,6, 8, 10, 11, 20, 23, 4, is what
people dislike to take.
My whole is the name of a Priest much
beloved by the children of a city in
Georgia. Mary.
Answer next week.
St. Joseph’s Academy, Columbus, Ga., June, 1808.
ENIGMA—No. 23.
I am composed of 6 letters :
My 5,6, 4,1, is my papa’s native isle.
My 3,5, 2,6, is a delicious fruit.
My 6,5, 2,3, is a word peculiar to the
harvest.
My 1,2, 3, is very necessary when
fatigued.
My 6,2, 4,1, is one of Heaven’s
choicest gifts.
My 2,4, 6, we could not live without.
My whole is the most noted British
General at this time. Alice M. M.
Answer next week.
Mobile, Ala., Jwne, 1868.
CHARADE.
Sly first the cause of all our woe,
Next, in the heart of every foe,
The heroine of the “Fairy Queen,”
In great and height ’tis always seen,
A noble beast of Arabia’s far plain,
The last to convict us of being insane,
The first to proclaim insurrection ripe,
Os a decided negative, my next is type,
A child’s best friend in earthly sorrow,
Next you will see on close of to-morrow,
The birth-place of a poetess of old,
Essential to a good shepherd’s fold,
A city once mistress ofland and sea,
If you sigh, my next will present be,
The Mother of the human race,
In sorrow' give the next first place;
If you let each letter take its proper part,
My whole you’ll see is dear to a Southern heart.
St. Joseph's Academy, Columbus, Ga., 1868.
CHARADE.
lam a word of five letters. Take
away my first, and I am the name of what
adorns the estates of many of the nobility
of England. Take away my first and
second, and I am the name of a place
where all the world was once congregated.
Take away my last, and I am the name
of a beautiful mineral. Take away my
last two aud I am the name of a fashiona
ble place of resort. lam small in stature,
but capable of doing a great deal of mis
chief. Jno. C.
Answer next week.
New Orleans, La., June, 1868.
CONUNDRUM,
What is that you should keep after
giving it to another ?
Answer next week.
Answers to Last Week’s Enigmas.
— Enigma No. 20.—Rev. Louis D. N.
Bazin—Odin—Zeal —Value—Love—Sin
Bud —Xavier.
Enigma No. 21.—Christopher Colum
bus—Corrib —Sir—Theiss—Perth—Co-
lumbus—Belle.
Anagrams. —l. Telegraphs. 2. Mon
arch. 3. Punishment.
Charade. —Thou-sand.
[Prepared for the Banner of tha South by Uncle B»ddy.]
FAMILIAR SCIENCE.
HEAT —CONTINUED.
Mercury, or quicksilver, is distinguish
ed from all other metals by its fluidity at
ordinary temperatures. It readily ex
pands or contracts with every variation
of temperature. Though it is fluid at all
common temperatures, yet it solidifies at
40 degrees below zero. In the Polar re
gions, therefore, thermometers filled with
mercury are often useless. Meicury,
when frozen, is malleable. It is gene
rally used for filling the tubes of baiome*
ters and thermometers, because its regu
lar expansion and contraction, by
increase or diminution of temper atuie,
renders it preferable to all othei liquids
for that purpose.
The mercury in the thermometer rises
because heat expands the metal which
(being increased in bulk,) occupies a huge
space, and consequently rises higher in
the tube.
Glass is broken when hot water is
poured into it, because the inside of the
glass is suddenly expanded by the action
of the hot water before the outside; so
that the glass snaps in consequence of this
unequal expansion.
The outside of the glass is not expanded
by the action of hot water, because glass
is a bad conductor of heat, and breaks
before the heat of the inner surface is con
veyed to the outside.
The inner surface being expanded, and
not the outer surface, an opposing force
is created, which snaps or breaks the
glass.
All metals expand by heat; and a bar
of iron will measure more when hot than
it is when cold. On getting cold, it will
return to its former dimensions.
Razors are dipped in hot water before
being used for shaving, because the heat
of the water expands the edge, by that
means rendering it much more fiue aud
sharp.
Wheelwrights, as you have doubtless
observed, always make the the tire red
hot before fixing it on the wheel, because,
Ist, its expansion causes it to be fit more
easily ; and 2d, it girds the wheel more
tightly, by contracting when it cools.
Stoves sometimes make a crackling
noise when the fire in them is very hot,
because, the particles of iron expand sepa
rately from the heat, and so produce the
noise. They make the same noise when
the fire is put out, because of the con
traction of these particles, which thus pro
duce the same crackling noise.
Plaster around a grate, or furnace, will
crack and fall away because the heat of
the fire expands the iron work more than
the brick work and plaster, and separates
from them, but when the fire is put out,
the metal shrinks again and leaves the
“ setting,” which is the technical word for
the plaster that is in immediate contact
with the grate, or furnace, behind. Asa
chink is thus left between the “setting”
and the grate, the plaster will frequently
fall away from its own weight. Other
causes sometimes, however, may pro
duce a similar effect, as, for instance,
the heat of the fire varying, causes the
size of the iron grate or furnace to
vary also ; and this swelling and con
tracting causes such a constant disturb
ance about the plaster that it contracts
and falls off.
If a boiler, or kettle, attached to a
kitchen range, be filled with cold water
sometime after the fire has been lighted,
it will be very likely" to crack or burst,
because the heat of the fire has caused
the metal, of which the boiler is com
posed, to expand, but the cold water very
suddenly contracts those parts with which
it comes in contact, and as one part is
larger than the other, the boiler cracks
or bursts.
When a stopper of a decanter or smell
ing bottle sticks, a cloth wrung out of hot
water and wrapped around the neck of
the bottle, will loosen the stopper, because
the hot cloth heats the neck of the bottle,
causing it to expand, and. consequently,
loosens the stopper.
The stopper of a decanter will stick fast
if it be put in the decanter when wet, be
cause it fits the decanter air-tight; and,if
the decanter w’as last used in a heated
room, as soon as the hot air enclosed in
the inside has been condensed by the cold,
the weight of the external air will be suf
ficient to press the stopper down and
make it stick fast.
A damp stopper will fit the decanter
air-tight, because the moisture fills up the
irregularities (that is, the roughness,) in
the ground glass stopper and neck of the
decanter, and thus prevents the escape of
the air.
The stopper of a smelling bottle will
very often stick fast, because the contents
of a smelling bottle are very volatile, and
leave the neck of the bottle and stopper
damp.
WOMAN’S INFLUENCE,
BY ELLEN ASHTON.
“ Dear Earnest, do lay aside your law
papers. I declare I shall not sufier you,
continued his wife playfully, to be so
devoted to anything’ but myself. ’
Her husband looked up from the huge
brief, with the wearied look of one almost
worn out by incessant mental labor, but a
smile instantly came over his face, as he
met the eyes of his sweet wife.
“Then" you will break your promise,
Belle,” he said, “for you know I told you
when we married, that the law would be
thereafter my mistress, almost as much
as yourself.”
“So you did. But you are ruining
your health by this close application, and
as I made no contract for that, you must
give up these papers for to-night. You
toil too hard ; I did not think this when
we married or I would not have been so
selfish,” she said with a sigh.
“Nay, nay, Bello,” replied her hus
band, pushing back his chair from the ta
ble, and affectionately taking the hand of
his wife between both of liis, “there is
no need to reproach yourself. If I work
hard it is because I am ambitious. For
your sake I aui resolved to win a foremost
place at the bar, and with it opulence ;
but instead of repining at the toil that lies
before me, I bless God that you have
been the means to force it on me. What
would I have been, but the idle spend
thrift that I was faat becomiug, if I had
remained my uncle’s heir and married
Helen Weston ? It was my love for you
which, procuring my disinheritance, made
me what I am !”
“Ah, had I but known it in time—had
you only told me that you sacrificed for
tune for me—”
“You would have refused me. You
have said the same a dozen times before,
Belle, and I know you too well to doubt
your word. It wai for that very reason
I did not tell you. Had I informed you
that my uncle would cut me off without a
shilling, if I married you, a mistaken
pride would have lead you to cancel our
engagement. And what would have been
the consequence ? Neither of us would
have been happy ; for ours was not the
love of children, but adults, and affection
founded on a knowledge of each other’s
character, and not on boyish and girlish
caprice. Whom God has thus joined to
gether, in spirit, let no man put asunder;
and we should have been acting crimin
ally had we broken our plight to gratify
the unreasonable and tyrannical whim of
my uncle.”
“ But he was your nearest relative.”
“Granted. But had he been my father,
it would have been the same. No one
goes farther than I do in upholding the
rights of parents ; and, as a general
their commands, even on the subject ot
marriage, should be implicitly followed.
Yet, in this case, there was no possibl ob
jection to you except your poverty. Now
as I look at the matter, this was my affair.
If I chose to toil hard with you for my
wife, instead of living a rich drone as
Helen Weston’s husband, it was my busi
ness, and that of no other person what
ever. Besides I know she was not fit
for a wife, at least for me ; vain, haughty,
and ill-tempered, life with her would have
been a constant scene of bickering. Nay,
do not try to defend her —I know your
good nature would make her the best ol
every one—l will, if it please you, sny no
more of her ; but I thank heaven that you,
and not Helen are my wife.”
“Ah 1 Earnest how shall I ever repay
you for all you have sacrificed ! ”
“By saying nothing of it. Why, my
dear, I have sacrificed nothing for you.
On the contrary, all I have of fame and
fortune, I owe to you. When I first won
your love, I was an idle man of fashion,
the heir expectant of thousands a year ;
I spent my time at the theatre, the bil
liard rooms, Or the race-course. Y ithout
being actually depraved, it was fast be
coming so. It is true, I had no taste lor
low dissipation, hut I was idle, and, time
hanging heavily on my hands, 1 sought
amusements any and everywhere. Be
lieve me, the path of a rich man is set
thick with temptation. T was already ac
quiring a passion for play, when chance
threw me in the circle where you moved.
It was a passing whim, I then thought,
that led me to pay a visit do your county
town, but I now believe it was a direct
interference on the part of Providence,
who will not suffer a sparrow to fall with
out taking accouut of it. I saw you and
loved. At first, my companions tried to
laugh me out of my passion ; but every
day showed me more and more of your
amiability, modesty, and correct principles.
You know the rest. I chose wisely in
abandoning a fortune that would have
made me a sloth, and might have been
my ruin.”
“But it pains me when I see you toil
ing thus. You will injure your health by
over-application. Let us be contented
with less.”
“Calm your fears, dearest. My health
sustains no injury, and it is only for the
past week that my application has been so
severe. This mass of papers belongs to a
very complicated and important case
which I was anxious to master, for it will
be the reputation of any one to thorough
ly understand it, and I consider myself
fortunate in being retained. It shows
that my fame is extending, and I am no
longer a drone in society, but an honored
and useful citizen. We should all do
gome good ; we owe it to our fellow crea
tures ; and I feel far happier since I have
been able, by means of my profession, to
redress injuries, and right the wronged.
I know you sometimes think I overwork
myself, and that 1 do so, for your sake; but
it is not wholly so : I toil now from a
sense of duty and enjoy a supreme pleas
ure in doing so. I have done enough,
however, for to night—l think I thorough
ly comprehend the case —so we will lay
aside the papers. But next week 1 shall
expect you to be very proud of me, for 1
intend to win this, my first great case, in
the teeth of the opinion expressed by our
ablest lawyers ; and if I do so, it will re
store an estate to a widow and her chil
dren, who have been defrauded of it by a
miserly old man, who does not hesitate to
say he" lias tiie letter of the will in his fa-
vor, cares nothing for its spirit. But we
shall see. If I win the cause, thy fortune
will be assured, aud then yon need have
no fears, as I see you now have.”
Earnest Ormond has told his own story
so well, that we have nothing to add to it.
Three years had now elapsed siuce his
union with Isabel Rowe, and during that
short period he had risen to considerable
eminence in his profession, surprising his
friends by the facility with which the idle
man of fashion had been transformed into
the studious and business-like lawyer.
But there had been a fund of latent ener
gy hidden under the gay exterior of Earn
est, and when his uncle disinherited him,
he applied himself at once to the study
of the law, supporting himself out of a
small legacy to which he was entitled in
his own right. Early and late he was at
his books ; and, wheu the time came for
his examination, he was admitted to the
bar with the highest honors. His ener
getic application to his laborious profes
sion soon brought him clients. Gifted
with great natural talents, which hitherto
had beeu allowed to rust from disuse, he
speedily became distinguished for elo-
quence ; suits of importance began to find
their way to him; and, at length, by the
advice of one of the oldest and most saga
cious members of the bar, who had been
applied to, but could not undertake it, in
consequence of other business, he was
entrusted with a case, considered well
nigh desperate, but one involving all the
best feelings of the heart in its favor. It
was this case to which he had alluded in
the foregoing conversation with his wife.
“Well, Ormond, do you think you will
be able to do anything to day ? ” said one
of the opposing lawyers rather sneeringly,
when he came into Court. “You might
as well own the weakness of your ease,
and save us the trouble of pleading.”
“Faint heart never won lair lady,” re
torted Earnest, and bowing to the Court,
he said, “if your honor pleases, I will
go on.”
He had not spoken more than half an
hour, before the triumphant looks of the
opposing party became changed to those
of alarm ; for to the astonishment of all,
he boldly asserted that the case which
they so relied on as a precedent, was it
self bad law, and contradicted in a dozen
instances in the books. He proceeded
to enforce this assertion with such an ar
ray of authority, and to enlarge on the
absurdity of the precedent with such co
gency of reason, that glances of consterna
tion began to be exchanged between the
lawyers for the defendant, and notes were
hurriedly written and sent off for books
which they wanted for the purpose of
examination. The Judge, who had shook
his head when Earnest announced his po
sition, now began to be all attention, and
seemed profoundly struck by (he force of
what the pleader said. The news of the
impression that Earnest was making soon
spread abroad ; the lawyers hurried in
from the other Courts, and the space both
inside and outside the bar became speedi
ly’ crowded. The subject was one well
calculated also for the display of natural
eloquence, and Earnest, in inveighing
against the hardship of the pretended rule
of law, by which a widow and her chil
dren were reduced to beggary, in contra
diction of the plain meaning of the will,
drew tears from many an eye. He sat
down amid murmurs of applause.
“ Well, gentlemen,” said the Judge,
turning to the opposite side, “what have
you to say ? I confess I think the case is
sifted to the bottom, and that wc have all
been wrong. Unless you can overturn
Mr. Ormond’s authorities I shall instruct
the jury to give a verdict in his favor.”
The opposing attorneys attempted to
make a defence, but they spoke, all the
while with a consciousness that they were
wrong. As the Judge said, Earnesth ad
sifted the whole matter to the bottom.
The result was a charge from the bench
in his favor, and a verdict from the jury
who did not leave the box.
So distinguished a triumph exceeded
anything which had occurred in the mem
ory of the bar, and at once elevated Or
mond to the front rank of his profession.
Before lie left the court house, he had
been retained as consulting counsel in a
dozen cases of importance. From the
congratulations of his friends he broke
loose as soon as possible, and hurried
home. His wife was waiting for him in
their little parlor, eager to hear the re
sult, yet almost dreading to ask it, for she
had not her husband’s confidence of suc
cess.
“I have won. Give me joy, Belle.
Did I not say I would succeed ? ”
Tiie wife flung herself into his arms,
and burst into glad tears of joy.
“Nay, weeping?” said Earnest, “but I
see they are tears of joy,” he continued,
as liis wife smiled up into his face. And
then, as tiie cheers of the crowd, who had
followed him in triumph home, broke on
his ears, lie added, “see what you have
made of me 1 I shall almost begin to
think I am a great man.”
“Ah ! Earnest —you know I have not
made you this.”
“But you have dearest. You it was
that woke me from my spell of indolence,
the necessity of struggling to provide you
a home worthy of you, first taught me
my own abilities —and, without your love
to cheer me, in hours of depression caused
by hard study, I might have given out
long ago. But the goal is now won.
Dear Belle, your sex little knows the in
fluence it exerts. It has saved many a
man beside me, even though he has not
had such an angel of a wife.”
Earnest fulfilled the promise he held
out in his first great case, and rose to be
the leading attorney of his native city, a
member of Congress, a Senator, a Judge,
and an Ambassador abroad. But he never
ceased, whenever the conversation diverg
ed on|his early struggle, to turn to his
wife, with a loving smile, and say that all
he had, of fame or fortune, he owed 1q
her influence.
WIT AND_HUMOR.
What glorious object does a boy getting
up in the morning resemble ‘i Tin
rising sun.
When should a man dine ? “If rich,”
said Diogenes, “ when he likes ; if poor,
when he can.”
When does an artist appear thoroughly
miserable ? When he draws a long face.
When do ladies carry fire ? When
they have taper fingers.
How long did Cain hate his brother ?
As long as he was Able,
How would you measure your lover’s
sincerity ? By his sighs.
Why wasn’t Eve tried for stealing the
apple ? Because there was no court of
appellate jurisdiction.
What is that which is lengthened by
being cut at both ends ? A ditch.
When a shoemaker begins to manufac
ture a shoe, the first thing that he uses is
the last.
When can a road be said to be decided
in its views ? When it has a positive
: inclination.
M iss Tompkins says every unmarried
lady of forty has passed the Cape of Good
Hope.
Nobody ever sees an action as very
wrong while under the excitement o:
committing it.
Woman —the first gatherer of fruit—by
picking the first apple she caused the fir -:
pair to fall.
The latest novelty is a machine, accord
ing to Fun, that will follow the thread o:
an argument.
“ I do not say,” remarked Mr. Brown,
“ that Jones is a thief; but I do say, if
his farm joined mine, I would not try to
keep sheep.”
It is exceedingly bad husbandry to harrow
up the feelings of your wife, to rake m
old quarrels, to hoe a grudge, and to sow
a discord.
At a public house in Devonshire tl
landlord has painted up outside liis door:
I “ Good beer sold here; but don't tab
my word for it.”
A man said the only reason why In -
dwelling was not blown away in ahr
storm was because there was a licav
mortgage on it.
One of our exchanges gets of the fal
lowing :
Tell me, ye augelic hosts, ye messen
gers of love, shall swiudled printers he:
below, have no redress above ?
The shining angel band replied :
“To us is knowledge given ; delii
quents on the printer’s book can neve
enter Heaven.”
“ Made of Money”—An heiress.
Sour preserves—A rod in pickle.
What torture can a toper best endure
Being bran died.
He who waits for a chance will have i
wait a year.
Pneumatic railway—a train of though
The first bus in America was Colon:
bus.
When is a towel like a locomotive
When it goes upon a rail.
“ Lazy folks take the most pair
Mistake—glaziers take the most.
A pert little girl boasted to one of li*
little friends that her father kept a car
riage. “ Ah, but my father drives a
omnibus I” was the triumphant reply.
A credulous man said to a wag, wl:
had a wooden leg : “ How came you l
have a wooden leg ?” “ Why,” answers
the wag, “my father had one, ands
had my grandfather. It runs in 1
blood.”
For brevity and aptness, we have es
dom read a more appropriate tombstoi
inscription than this :
To the Memory of Mary Mum.
Silence is Wisdom.