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8 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.