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YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT.
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ENIGMA No. 54.
I am composed of 54 letters :
My 35, 4, 45, 9, 23, 53, 16, 35, signi
fies universal.
Mv47 2, 27, 31, is found in Algebra.
My 44, 30, 35, 52, 18, 12, is an
Island.
My 19, 8, 48, 31, 42, 13, 49, 2g, are
found on Railroads.
My 6, 20, 35, 9, 48, 28, 37, 35, 26,
are useful to the world.
My 44, 30, 28, 39, 14, 17, 28, 44, 19,
rains the world.
My 3, 50, 4,1, 36, very few men like
to contemplate.
Mv 11, 3S, 40, 25, 29, 19, 43. 28, 8,
48, 45, 30, 40, 49, Georgia will soon
have. . _ ,
My 15, 52, 54. 41, 10, is an adverb.
My 22,’ 7, 24, 34, is a pronoun.
My IS, 5, 28, 51, is an animal.
My 21 is a vowel.
My whole is a remark made by Caesar
to his mother. Evalina.
Answer next week.
Savannah, Ga., July , 1808.
ENIGMA—No. 55.
I am composed of 7 letters •
My 7,6, 1, is a name for us Southern
men. . . . ,
My 7,3, 4,5, G, is a part of a lady 3
wardrobe.
My 1,2, 3,6, is a color.
My 2,3, 4,7, 0, is money.
My 4,2, 3,1, is a name for a young
men’s association.
My 5, G, 7,1, is a plant.
My 4,3, 1. is a young bear.
My whole was the name of a famous
General in the French Army.
Answer next week.
ENIGMA No. 56.
ACROSTICAL.
1 am composed of 19 letters :
My 1, 10, 14, 17, is something used by
cooks.
My 2,7, 14, 6, 16, is what we should
all practice.
My 3,8, 14, 13, 16, is beneath.
My 4, 10, 3,7, is a journey.
My 5,2, 8,6, 19, is what all children
are fond of.
My 6, 11, 9,2, 7, 13, is the French
for again.
My 7,3, 1, 15, is a strategem.
My 8, 17, 19, is a word of refusal.
My 9, 17, 16, 15, 15, 11, is to incline.
My 10, 19, 1,4, 6, 16, is a shellfish.
My 11, 2,1, 6, is a part of the face.
My 12, 13, 3, 14, is a quarrel.
My 13, 12, 12, 17, IS, 15, is to blot
out.
My 14, 3,1, 6, is an evil spirit.
My 15, 18, 5,2, is to give back sound.
My 16,13, 17, 7, is to raise.
My 17, 14,10, 15, 11, is to deck.
My 18, 15, 8,1, 10, 7, is a critic.
My 19, 2, 16, 13, is a long time past.
My whole is a name dear to all true
Southerners. Annie.
Answer next week.
Savannah, Ga., IS6S.
REBUS.
I 0 nothing but 00 now.
0 ing 00 I 0 U.
I 0 00 meaning 0.
But 2 puzzle 0 RR like U. L.
Auswer next week.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 7, 1863.
Answers to Last Week’s Enigmas.
—Enigma No. 51 —Rev. Charles C.
Prendergast— Charles— Arras—Leer—
Carp—Avast.
Enigma, No. 52. General Wade
Hampton—Gem—Water—Ham—Legal
—Mole—Pan—Mar—That.
To Enigma No. 53—“ The Researches
in Southern Africa, by Doctor Living
stone’-—Thibet—Nile—Sierra Nevada—
Bolivia— Rhone— Fulton Bodeau—
Santa Rosa—Brighton—Cordova—Sicily
—Verde—Sydney—Sligo—Decatur.
Frepareil for the Banner of the South by Uncle Buddy.
FAMILIAR SCIENCE.
H EAT —CONTINUED.
Vaporization. — By vaporization, is
meant the conversion of a liquid into
vapor by boiling. Evaporation is effect
ed by exposure to the air without boiling,
whilst vaporization requires the air of
sufficient heat to produce ebullition
Ebullition is from the Latin word, ebullio,
to boil.
Hot iron makes a hissing noise when
plunged into water, because the hot iron
converts into steam the particles of waiter
which come in immediate contact with it;
and, as the steam flies upward, it passes
by other particles of water not yet
vaporized. The collision produces very
rapid vibrations in the air, and a hissing
noise is the result.
Water makes a hissing noise when
it is poured on fire, because the part
which comes in contact with the fire is
immediately converted into steam, and, as
it flies upward, meets other particles of
water not yet vaporized. The collision
produces very rapid vibrations in the air,
and a hissing noise is the result.
Water is converted into steam by the
heat of the fire, because, when the heat
of the fire enters the water, it separates
its globules into very minute particles,
which, being lighter than air, fly off from
the surface in the form of steam.
A drop of water will sometimes roll
along a piece of hot iron without leaving
the least trace, because the bottom of the
drop is turned into vapor, which buoys
the drop up, without allowing it to touch
the iron. And it rolls, because the cur
rent of air, which is always passing over
a heated surface, drives it along.
A laundress will put a little saliva on a
flat-iron, to know if it be hot enough,
because when the saliva sticks to the iron,
and is evaporated, she knows that it is
not sufficiently hot ; but when it runs
along the iron, it is. The flat-iron is
hotter when the saliva runs along it, than
if it adheres till it is evaporated, because,
when the saliva runs along the iron, the
heat is sufficient to convert the bottom of
the drop into vapor; but if the saliva will
not roll, the iron is not sufficiently hot to
convert the bottom of the drop into
vapor.
By wetting the hand, it may be safely
thrust through a stream of molten (that
is, red hot,) iron; because the moisture
of the hand is converted into steam by the
heat of the iron. The envelope of steam
completely shields the hand from the in
jurious effects of the molten metal by
preventing the iron from coming in con
tact with the skin.
Liquidation. —By Liquefication, is
meant the state of being melted by the
heat of the sun. When metals are melt
ed, they are said to be fused.
Ice is melted by the heat of the sun,
because, when the heat of the sun enters
the solid ice, it forces its particles
sunder, till their attraction of cohesion is
sufficiently overcome to convert the solid
ice into a liquid. The temperature of ice
is 32°; if you pour just enough boiling
water on the ice to melt it, the tempera
ture of the water will not be increased,
because the heat of the boiling water is
consumed in melting the ice ; but pour
boiling water on ice-cold waiter, and the
temperature is immediately increased.
Wax becomes soft before it turns
liquid, because it absorbs heat sufficient
to loosen the contact of its particles before
it has absorbed sufficient to liquefy the
mass.
Metals are melted by the heat of the
fire, because when the heat of the fire
enters the solid metal, it forces its parti
cles asunder, till their attraction of
cohesion is sufficiently overcome to con
vert the solid metal into a liquid
Wood does not melt like metal, be
cause the heat of the fire decomposes the
wood into gas, smoke, and ashes, and the
different parts separate from each other.
Salt will crackle when throwu into the
fire, because it contains water, and the
crackling of the salt is owing to the
sudden conversion of this waiter into steam.
Radiation. —By Radiation is meant the
emission of rays. Thus, the sun radiates
both light and heat; that is, it emits
rays of light and heat in all directions.
Heat is radiated from one body to an
other, when the two bodies are separated
by a non-conducting medium. Thus, the
sun radiates heat toward the earth, be
cause the air (which is a very bad con
ductor) comes between.
Radiation depends on the roughness of
the radiating surface. Thus, if metal be
scratched, its radiating power is in
creased, because the heat has more
points to escape from.
A fire will radiate heat, because burning
fuel emits rays of heat; therefore, we
feel warm when wc stand before a lire.
Our face feels uncomfortably hot,
when we approach a fire, because the
fire radiates heat upon the face, which,
not being covered, feels the effect imme
diately.
[For tlie Banner of the South.]
THE DUTY OF YOUNG MEN.
“The evil that men do lives after
them;” to which might be added, the
good that man fails to do, tells in some
way against him. To a man who only
looks upon such questions in a purely
benevolent way, the thought is really a
solemn one ; how much more so must it
be to the Catholic who beholds a long
array of neglected opportunities looming
alongside of his sins of commission. At
the solemn death hour, the painful reality
of all this is more apparent than at any
other period of existence. How long
will it be before our people take time to
consider some of the realities of life ?
Our young men, upon whom our hopes
of the future depend, can they not be
reached, and the fact impressed upon
their minds, that they have a most awful
responsibility resting upon them ? The
great current of thought, and the changes
of religious opinion, brings many into the
true fold. Those who are yet undecided,
feel drawn towards the Church, yet the
stubbornness of their hearts induces them
to seek pretexts to avoid that which their
consciences tell them is right. And it is
at this stage that their future weal and
woe is influenced by those who should be
practical Catholics ; for too often is the
Church judged by the conduct of her
members; and, of her members, the
young men are looked upon as her first
fruits, her most apparent triumphs; her
influence over them is observed; they,
subject to the greatest temptations, are
the ones who should experience the
greatest benefits from her Sacraments;
and, it is to them the world looks for
examples of Church influence. In the
hearts of our young men still exists
such a degree of loyal affection for the
Church, that, were she attacked by the
powers of this world, they would be
found at once in the ranks of her de
fenders; and if, at any time, they hear
her traduced and villified, they most
always defend her in their earnest, but
unskillful manner. All this they do
with entire willingness, in the same
spirit that they would peril life in the
service of parents or country. Well, the
Church needs her sons now; the time
may soon come, in this country, when the
old Puritan spirit will make its grand
effort against the Church. The result is
not at all doubtful, but it is well to bo
preparing ; and, if we do not come to
actual blows, yet the grand fight against
evil still continues, and furnishes ample
opportunity for conflict. Those of our
young men who have strayed away must
come back to us; nowhere will they meet
such assurances of happiness ; nowhere
such perfect brotherhood ; nowhere such
glorious opportunities of doing good to
their fellow men. The responsibility
rests upon them of deciding this most im
portant question, and they must meet it;
the times are momentous.
I take it as an axiom, that no man, not
utterly depraved, but what has what is
called “his better moments;” hardly any,
who think at all, think any better of
themselves for the follies and vices they
indulge in. Few love sin, and there are
but few who do not hate it. Something
within causes them to yearn for better
things than they have. No profligate
man, as a general thing, is respected,
even bv his associates, for they know that
vice is seldom united with those stern
virtues, which even the savage respects,
i.e., courage, truth, and temperance. A
true man despises himself for being so
long under such influences, and longs to
escape them; to the Catholic young man,
such an opportunity always presents itself
in the Church, which tenderly cares for
him, and, by the powerful graces of her
sacraments, makes a Christian gentleman
of him, and causes him to respect himself,
which is, of itself, a tremendous gain ;
and he, by returning to the Church, docs
good service in her cause ; fur, by the
force of example, he, perhaps, saves the
soul of some wavering fellow mortal,
who, with human weakness, stands, un
certain which way to turn, until the
powerful force of example of someone he
respects, turns him to that, which proves
his happiness in this world, and ids salva
tion in the next. A.
A Beautiful Sentiment. —Dr. Chal
mers beautifully says : “ The little that
1 have seen in the world, and known of
the history of mankind, teaches me to
look upon their errors in sorrow, not in
anger. When*! take the history of one
poor heart that has sinned and suffered,
and represent to myself the struggles
and temptations it passed through, the
brief pulsations of joy ; the tears of regret;
the feebleness of purpose; the scorn of
the world that has little charity; the deso
lation of the soul’s sanctuary, and
threatening voices within ; health, gone,
happiness gone—l would fain leave the
erring soul of my fellow-man with Him
from whose hands it came.”
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A Father came home from his busi
ness at early evening, and took his little
girl upon his knee. After a few dove
like caresses, she crept to his bosom and
fell asleep. He carried her himself to
her chamber, and said : “ Nellie would
not like to go to bed without saying her
prayers ? ” Half opening her large blue
eyes, she dreamily articulated :
“Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord ”
then adding, in a sweet murmur. “ lie
knows the rest,” she sank on her pillow,
in His watchful care who “ giveth His
beloved sleep.”
The latter part of a wise man’s life is
taken up in curing the follies, prejudices,
and lalse opinions he had contracted in
the former.
It is better to weep with Jerusalem at
noon, than mourn with Babylon at night.
THE SELF-WILLED PRINCESS,
BY AN OLD-FASHIONED FELLOW.
[From the New York Mercury.]
There was once a Princess who had a
proud, and violent temper, and who made
everybody about her, in consequence,
very unhappy whenever she failed in
anything she undertook, or met the least
obstacle. Her fairy grandmother re
proved her without success.
At last, one day, the fairy said to her,
in a fit of anger:
“Very well, Princess; since instruction
has no effect on you, I decree that hence
forward you shall succeed in whatever
you undertake.”
“ I ask nothing more,” answered the
Princess, laughing loudly; and to begin
with, I mean now to open that mys
terious black box, into which my father
has never permitted me to look.”
So saying, she went to the mantle, and
was taking down her father’s golden key,
when her father entered the room.
“What are you doing with my key ? ”
he asked, angrily.
“ I am going to open your black box,”
answered the Princess, boldly.
The King, on hearing this, was very
angry; but when he attempted to reprove
the Princess, for some mysterious reason
he could not say a word; and the Prin
cess, perceiving that fairy’s spell was
working, opened the box before his eyes.
Something sprang out, and gave her a
furious box on the ear.
“Ah, daughter, you have ruined us
all!” said the father in a lamentable
voice. “This is the hideous goblin whom
I contrived to shut up here, and whom
you have now released.”
The Princess for a moment, knew not
what to say, for she had never seen such
a hideous creature as the little black
figure perched on the box ; but recollect
ing the fairy’s decree:
“ I am to have success in whatever I
undertake,” said she. “So goblin get
back into your box.”
“With pleasure! ” answered the horri
ble creature; and, jumping into the box
the lid snapped ; but he hud taken some
thing with him ; what do you think it was?
Why, the King, the Court, the Palace,
everything but the Princess. How he
had done it, the Princess could not tell,
but they were all gone, and she was
alone.
Not knowing what to do, she began to
walk on, she hardly knew whore, till it
grew cold and dark, when she came to a
little house all by itself.
“Let me in,” said the Princess, knock
ing: but she heard nothing. Then she
knocked again ; but still there was no
answer.
“ I will enter,” said the Princess to
herself; and as she said that, the door
flew open. There was a fire on the hearth,
and near it sat an old woman.
“You are welcome,” said the old wo
man. “You must now bake my bread,
and spin my flax for me.”
So the Princess rolled up her sleeves,
and began to knead the old woman’s
dough, and spin her flax. She rose early
in the morning, and went to bed late at
night, for there was so much bread to
bake, and flux to spin, that she had no
time to rest. At last, she made up her
mind (o run away; but she could lind
neither door nor window. She was not
discouraged, however, for she thought, I
am always to succeed; and by-and-by
she spied a little step.
“We will see where this leads to, she
thought.
So she went up, and there was another.
She went up that, and fbund another,
and another. In this way, she walked
for a whole week, till she began to think
that she was going up a mountain. Fi
nally she came to a prodigious step.
She tried to get up, and then she tried
again, and, as usual, “I will succeed! ”
she said to herself. At the same moment,
she stepped up, and found herself right
on the tip-end of the horn of the new
moon. Oh, then she was frightened.
“Fairy, fairy, save me!” she cried.
“ The more I succeed the worse I am.”
“ 1 am glad you have found that out!”
answered the fairy, picking her up, and
carrying her back to the King, her father,
who was not in the goblin’s box after all.
And let us hope, after this, that our
Princess was not quite so fond of her
own way.
Mr. Dickens picked up this story during
his last visit to America, and the Eng
lish papers are repeating it with evident
enjoyment: A man in this country
knew everybody. Name what celebrity
you could, Palmerston, Guizot, Arago,
Landseer, Livingston, Mario—no matter.
“O! yes, I knew him very well indeed.”
At last a provoked cynic asked, “Did you
happen to know the Siamese Twins ?”
The omniscient, but conscientious, speak
er at once replied ; “Well, one of them
I knew exceedingly well, but I am not
sure whether I ever happened to meet
the other.”
WIT AND HUMOR
—i
“Sambo, did you ever see the Catskil!
Mountains ?” “No, Clem ; hut I’ve seen
the eats kill mice.”
Apropos to the heated term, a gentle
man writes : “Last Saturday, my mother
in-law came on a visit. In a short time
it became so hot that I was obliged t
leave home.”
The Way to Do It.—A gentleman at
a musical party asked a friend, in a wins- |
per, “How shall I stir the fire, without in
terrupting the music ?” “Between the
bars,” replied the friend.
Yes and No. —“Have I not a right to
be saucy if I please ?” asked a youtpr
lady of an old bachelor.
“Yes, if you please, but not if you dis
please.
Rather. —A fresh arrival from Eng
land went the other day to a livery stable
in Norwich, Ct., and asked for a sleigh
On being asked if he would have a buffa
lo, he said he thought “’cd rather 'ave a
’oss.”
The walls of Paris are now placarded
with posters, bearing, m letters of enor
mous size, the legend, “Don’t go to the sea
shore without Amelia.” This indispen
sable companion is not, as might be sup
posed, an agreeable young woman. but a
species of shoe adapted to walking on
the sand.
Et tu Brute !—The exclamation in- j
stantly rises to our lips, on seeing this in
the Boston Advertiser:
Two persons are under trial in Detroit
for smuggling nutmegs. That comes of
not patronizing home manufactures
Connecticut knows a better way.
A Hapfy Retort. — “So here I am
between two tailors,” cried a beau at a
public table, where a couple of young
tailors were seated, who had just c om
menced business for themselves. “True,”
was the reply, “we are beginners, and
can only afford to keep one goose between
us.”
No Foundation.— A gentleman fear
ing that a literary pretender, with "a
plentiful lack of wit,” had been seized
with a brain fever, dryly observed:
“Oh, the thing’s impossible,” “Wev im
possible ?” asked the informant. Be
cause,” was the reply, “There’s no inun
dation for the fever or the report.
Cool.— The proprietor of the cele
brated Clos Vougeot wine, called for a
bottle at a restaurant, and was assure] i*
was genuine. Taking a cork from hb
pocket, he informed the landlord that all
the real wine was stamped like the one
he held in his hand.
“How much do you ask a thon- u i
for those corks?” was the cool rejoinder
of the landlord.
Smart Child. — I “Ma, didn’t the minis
ter say last Sunday, that the spark- fie .v
upward?”
“Yes, my dear; how came you to he
thinking ol it ?” “Because yesterday I
saw cousin Sally’s spark stagger along
the street and fall downward.” “Here,
Bridget, put this child to bed. She must
be getting sleepy.”
There is no telling the extent of the
misery inflicted in all parts of the Coun
try, by the late hot weather. A gentle- ;
man from New York, stopping at New
port, who is passionately fond of shrimp,
struck out anew idea, when lie a :eosted
one of the waiters at the hotel with. "I
say, waiter, these shrimps are uncom
monly small.” Waiter—“ Small. s:r’
“Yes, sir.” “Werry sorry, sir ; but its
along o’ the want o’ rain. Nothin' v u:
grow this weather.”
Tliis is related of a father, w! was
one evening teaching his little boy '
cite his Sunday School less n
was from the fourteenth chapter o‘
thew, wherein is related the parable o: a
malicious individual, who went n-out
sowing tares. “What is a tare 1 •'- ' J
the anxious parent. “Tell me, m; J ‘ ! -
what a tare is.” “Y r ou had ’em Jcliu
ny, what do you mean ?*’asked the as
tonished parent, opening his eye-' n'.y
wide. “Last week, when you diiai
come home for three days,” said •> • -•’ >■
“I heard mother tell aunt Susan til- you
were on a tare.” Johnny was so:.'
to bed.
No Merit.— “ Why do you look y
grum and cross, William, whenever I
you to go out with me to any pa:'} 1
theatre ?” inquired Isabella. “My kve.
said William, “there would ben u- n ;
in going were I not making an aw- 11
sacrifice of my own feelings. Fei :■
the pleasure of showing that 1 g
please you, dearest.”
EPIGRAM.—Bx QUILP.
The Laud was doubly tax’d wo tliot
To carry ou the War;
Now War is to a pesiod brought,
Still more our taxes are.
Strange conduct, this, all must allow,
Hush! let your murmurs cease;
You pay these double taxes ip w
To carry on the peace.