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Month’s department
ENIGMA—No. 77.
I am composed of 32 letters :
My 1, 15,18,19, 81, is a’city in Geor
gia.
My 2, 20, 5, 24, 7, is a girl’s name.
My 3. 19, 10, 4, is a city in Ireland.
My 16, 6, 11, is a part of the body.
My 8, 13, 17, 12, is an Englishman’s
favorite dish.
My 14, 26, 30, 29, 22, is a grain much
used as food.
My 23, 9, 28, 27, 32, is a scientific in
sstrument used by railroad engineers.
My 21, 30, 25,2, i3 a tropical fruit.
My whole is what should be in every
Southern household. Dr.
Answer next week.
Avgusta , Ga., 1868.
ENIGMA—No. 78.
I am composed of 21 letters :
My 9, 11, 19,20, 13, is what we all do.
My 8,7, 7, 15, is a girl’s name abbre
viated.
My 9, 2,4,3,19,1, is the name of a
rree.
My 17, 6,1, is a carpenter’s tool.
My 18, 11, 8, 20, 12,19, 20, is a city
in New Jersey.
My 11, 15, 7, is an animal.
My, 17, 19, 11, 11, 21, 14, is a color.
My 6,4, 10,11, 7, signifies to fright
en.
My 10,13, 21, 20, 12, is one commis
sioned by any one to do any particular
work.
My whole is the name of a distinguish
ed English Statesman. J. F. C.
Answer next week.
Atla?ita , Ga. } 1868.
ENIGMA—No. 79.
I am composed of 19 letters.
My 10, 15, 9,3, 17, is a girl’s name.
My 19, 8,2, 3, 18, is a retinue.
My 1, 10, 5,2, 4,3, 13, is devilish.
My 11, 14, 6,7, is a dress of dignity.
My 12, 2, 16, 3, 12, is the name of an
ancient King of the Jews.
My whole is the name of an institu
tion situated on the summit of an Euro
pean Mountain, that has been of great use
to travellers. Alpha.
Answer next week.
ENIGMA—No. 80.
I am composed of 51 letters :
My 9,1, 10, 35, 5, 45, 23, 51, 14, 26,
27, 45, 50, 23, is the most humorous Eng
glish writer of the present day.
My 24, 10, 8,1, 14, 50, 47, 28, 12,
15, was an American patriot.
My 10, 38, 21,10, 3, 25, 21, 8, is a
sign of the Zodiac.
My 26, 29, 43, 5,2, 35, 49, is a very
dangerous disease.
My 48, 39, 28, 1,7, 3, was one of the
earliest Protestants.
My 22, 17, 39, 46, is a part of speech.
My 44,12, 21, 11, is a number,
My 49, 20, 42, 17, 13, 37, was once a
patriot, afterwards a traitor.
My 47, 43, 13, 37, is a very precious
metal.
My 38, 34, 40, 41, 42, is a title of no
bility.
My 19, 35, 6, 16, 18, is short ; also a
document pertaining to lawyers.
My 33, 39, 32, 30, is one of the Sum
mer months.
My 8,17, 34, 5, is the immortal part
of man.
My 4, 82, 23, 31, 47, 32, is a military
title.
My 47, 36, 12, 3, 47, 25, 10, is one of
the Southern States.
My 51, 31, 15, 15, 2, 11, is what a
hungry person likes to get.
My 37, 20, 49, 24, 6, 22, 47, 8, are
used for ornamenting houses.
My 18, 6, 44,16, is a musical instru
ment.
My 19, 31, 19, 48, 36, is a book that
should be read by all.
My 24, 40, 30, 27, a period of time.
My 9, 20, 7,7, 27, is a small stream
of water.
My 29, 41, 46; is a domestic fowl.
My whole is the inscription on the
tomb of a Queen of England.
“Paola.”
Answer next week.
Halcyondale, Ga. t 1868.
To Double Acrostic. — Initials —Ban-
ner of : Finals,—the South.
1 Bee T
2 As H
3 No E
4 Nut S
5 Ebr O
6 Rec U
7 Omi T
8 Fis II
Answers to Last Week’s Enigmas,
Etc.— To Enigma No. 74.—Terpsi
chore—Choir—Pit—Core—Pitch—Seer
Trochee—Sip—Spree.
To Enigma No. 75—“ For Love is
Heaven, and Heaven is Love”-J)ove-Ha
ven—Fever—Dee-Sallie—Helen—Love
—Dennis—Lee—Dido —Aaron—His—
Hen—Rover—Veal.
To Enigma No. 76.—“ For there was
never yet fair Woman but she made
mouths in a glass”—“Maid of Athens”—
Wilderness—“ Banner of the South”—
Father Ryan—Forget-me-not—Altamaha
—Vermont—Thad. Stevens—Us.
To Conundrums —l. Because it con
tains fowl-in’-pieces. 2. One is a dead
level and the other i£ a lead devil.
[Prepared fbr tli Banner of the South by Uncle Buddy]
FAMILIAR SCIENCE.
Hydrogen. —Hydrogen does not, like
oxygen, support combustion, though it is
highly combustible. Uniting with oxy
gen, it forms water.
The peculiar characteristics of hydro
gen gas are : Ist, It is the lightest of
all known substances; 2d, It will burn
with a very pale flame; forming water,
by uniting with the oxygen of the air ;
3d, A lighted candle immersed in this
gas will be instantly extinguished. Hy
drogen gas may be made thus:
Fut some pieces of zinc, or iron filings,
into a glass; pour over them a little
sulphuric acid (vitrol,) diluted with twice
the quantity of water, then cover the
glass over for a few minutes, and hydro
gen gas will be given off.
Experiments —ls a flame be put into
the glass containing this mixture, an ex
plosion will take place.
If the experiment be tried in a vial
which has a piece of tobacco pipe run
through the cork, and a light be held a
few moments to the top of the pipe, a
flame will be made.
If a balloon be held over the vial, so
that the gas can inflate it, the balloon
will ascend in a very few minutes.
Hydrogen gas is employed for the fol
lowing uses: Ist, Owing to its light
ness, it is used to inllate balloons ; and,
2d, Burned with oxygen, it is used in the
hydrogen blowpipe.
A blowpipe is a tube usually bent near
the end, terminated with a finely pointed
nozzle for blowing through the flame of
a lamp or gas-jet, and producing thereby
a small conical flame possessing very in
tense heat. A mixture of hydrogen and
oxygen, when ignited, produces an intense
heat, and constitutes the hydrogen blow
pipe. It was invented by Hr. Hare of
Philadelphia.
The Drummond Light, of which you
may have frequently heard, is the ignited
flame of a mixture of oxygen and hydro
gen, projected against lime ; the lime be
comes intensely luminous, and forms the
well known Drummond Light.
Water —Water is a fluid composed of
oxygen and hydrogen in the proportion
of eight parts of oxygen to one part of
hydrogen. Water is fluid, because its
particles are kept separate by latent
heat ; when a certain quantity of the
latent heat is driven out, water becomes
solid, and is called ice. By increasing
its latent heat, the particles of water are
again subdivided into invisible steam.
Water is generally diffused through
organic bodies. The sea covers nearly
three-fourths of the earth’s surface. The
air is impregnated with water, in the
form of vapor ; and water enters into the
composition of all plants, animals, and
even of some minerals. Pure water has
neither taste nor smell; and when viewed
in small quantities, it is colorless, but, in
a large mass, it has a bluish tint. The
peculiar properties of water are : Ist,
It is a conductor of electricity; and, 2d,
It possessess the power of dissolving
many substances. Water is never found
in a state of perfect purity; even rain
and snow T contain the various gases of
the atmosphere. By hard water, is meant
water in which the salts of lime and other
substances have been dissolved. Pump
water is called hatd water, because it is
laden with foreign matters, and will not
readily dissolve substances immersed in
it. Pump water is hard, because, when
it filters through the earth, it becomes
impregnated with sulphate of lime, and
many other impurities from the earths
and minerals with which it comes in con
tact.
Mineral Springs are caused by water
trickling through the ground, and dissolv
ing some of the substances with which
it comes in contact. If these substances
are metallic, the water will partake of
their mineral character, borne water is
imbued with lime, some with salt, etc.,
etc.
It is difficult to wash the hands clean
in hard water, because the soda of the
soap combines with the sulphuric acid of
the hard water, and the oil of the soap
with the lime, and floats in flakes on the
top of the water. Sulphate of lime
consists of sulphuric acid and lime. It
is also difficult to wash in salt water, be
cause it contains muriatic acid; and the
soap combines with the muriatic acid of
the salt water, and produces acloudiuess.
The clearness of water does not ini-
Mini m Tii arons®. I
ply purity ; for it may be very clear, and
yet very impure and unwholesome. For
example, the well water in Cities, though
apparently pure, is unfit for drinking.
The purity of water cannot be restored
by filtering it, for no ordinary filtering can
remove dissolved impurities. The quali
fications of good drinking water are: Ist,
That it should be clear; and, 2d, When
poured into a tumbler, it should sparkle
with the gases rising through it. Oxy
gen and Carbonic Acid gas rise through
pure water, and give it its refreshing and
thirst quenching properties. When it
has stood long in a warm room, it is ren
dered disagreeable to the taste, in conse
quence of the gases having escaped
from it, rendering it flat and stale. Sun
light will have the same effect as a warm
room. Another test of good water is
that that which cattle drink most readily
is clear, soft, and soap forms with it a
lather freely.
Soft water is preferable to hard water
for drinking, because if we drink hard
water, it not only lies heavily on the
stomach, but has to be freed from its im
purities by distillation through the ca
pilaries before the blood can receive it.
Liebig’s New Method of Bread
Making. —This eminent chemist, who, to
an extent scarcely equalled by any other
person, has turned his science to practi
cal account, in rural and domestic econo
my, has recently announced a very
simple process of causing bread to rise,
which, though not entirely new, is yet
likely to become extensively introduced,
in consequence of the weight of his name.
Our readers are well aware that there
are two principal modes of making bread
spongy and light; the one, by means of a
yeast ferment, in which, a portion of the
substance is decomposed with the evolu
tion of gas; the other by introducing car
bonic. acid gas, either directly from
without, as in what is called aerated
bread, or by the mixture of two or more
chemical substances, which, combining
in the dough, cause the same result. In
the last mentioned category, belong the
various yeast, or rising powders, of
which so many are in use—the simplest
of them, and longest known consisting of
bicarbonate of soda, and tartaric acid,
and others, however, having different
compositions.
The method of Leibig belongs to the
class of the yeast powders, and consists
in the employment of bicarbonate of soda,
and hydrochloric, or muriatic acid. The
resultory combination is simply our com
mon salt, the carbonic acid being given
off in the process, and furnishing the
rising. As all bread requires salt, in
even larger degrees than that produced
by a proper proportion of this mixture,
there is no taste of free soda left, and
nothing in any way injurious to health, or
disagreeable to the palate. The propor
tions used in an extensive bakery in
Munich, where this Liebig method is
employed, is to 100 pounds of coarse
flour, add 1 pound of bicarbonate of soda;
pounds of hydrochloric acid, of the
specific gravity of 1.063, If to 2 pounds
of common salt, and 79 pounds of water;
with ordinary flour the water should not
exceed 70 to 72 pounds. The propor
tion of the soda to the acid is so graduated,
that 5 grammes (about 77 grains) of the
alkali shall be completely neutralized by
33 cubic centimetres (about 9 fluid
drachms wine measure) of the acid. The
bread should have a slightly acid reaction.
In the actual manipulation, the flour
is«first mixed with the bicarbonate of
soda, and the common salt dissolved in
the water, which is then used for mixing
the dough; a small portion of the flour,
mixed with the soda, is set aside before
the kneading. When the dough is ready,
the hydrochloric acid is worked in, little
by little, the reserve flour added, and the
loaf formed. This is allowed to stand
half to three quarters of an hour before
being placed in the oven; the dough
then rises, and becomes light. It requires
a little longer time for baking, than
common bread. The yield, after baking,
is about one hundred and fifty pounds.
By adding one or two parts of vinegar,
to one hundred pounds of flour, with a
corresponding diminution of the water,
bread of the taste of baker’s bread is ob
tained; if a quarter to a half pound of
old cheese is added to the vinegar, the
taste becomes more than that of yeast
bread. —Philadelphia Ledger.
Arrangement of Flowers. —Flowers
may be aranged according to the harmony
or contrast of colors. Red harmonizes
to orange, orange to yellow, violet to red
indigo to violet, blue to indigo, and green
to blue. Green is the contrast to red, sky
blue to orange, yellow to violet, blue to
orange-red, indigo to orange-yellow and
violet to bluish green. To find the contrast
to any flower, cut a smail circular piece
out of one of its petals, place it upon
white paper, look at it steadily with one
eye for a few seconds, without letting
the eyelids close, then look from the eoior-
ed circle to another part of the white paper,
when a circle of another color will be ap
parent. This color is the true contrast or
complementary color. Tastes differ as to
whether the effect of arranging the flow
ers according to contrast or complemen
tary colors is more pleasing to the eye
than placing them according.to harmo
nies. The former, however, is the most
in favori To carry it out, a blue flower
should be placed next an orange flower, a
yellow near a violet, and a red or white,
should have plenty of foliage around it.
White contrasts with blue or orange, or
better still, with reds and roses, but not
with yellow or violet.
The Banner of the South. —This ex
cellently interesting and sterling fami
ly newspaper makes its appearance in our
sanctum regularly once a week, and is
always welcome— not only on account of
the variety and attractions of its reading
matter, but, also, from the fact that its
views and expressions upon religious sub
jects are ever free from the slightest
tinge of bigotry, or intolerance. The
editor, that noble Southern Priest, Rev.
Father Ryan, whose name is so fondly
cherished by all who admire true genius,
and love pure, impressive verse, and who
will be remembered wherever The Con
quered Banner is repeated, or known,
though suffering from ill health, in conse
quence of his immense Pastoral labors,
yet gives us in every issue, an amount of
matter full of strength and interest. The
journal has now one of the pleasantest
stories we have perused for a long time,
entitled The Earls of Sutherland , which
is from the pen of an accomplished, and
gifted lady of Georgia. Every chap
ter is full of interest, and historical infor
mation, and cannot fail to attract all who
desire to read something entertaining and
instructive. The back numbers, contain
ing this story, can be obtained at the
office of the journal. Our people will do
well to subscribe for this journal, as they
receive the full value of their money in
the immense amount of varied and in
structive matter which it contains, and
also assist in sustaining a Southern enter
prise, which richly deserves their sup
port. We commend it to our young
friends, also, as being one of the best
journals they can read. It is published at
Augusta, Ga., by L. T. Bloine & Cos., at
the small subscription price of three dol
lars per annum, or one dollar and fifty
cents for six months, payable in advance.
Send on your names and make up clubs.
[.4 ugusla Constitutionalist.
The Banner of the South. —Last
week, by an unintentional oversight, we
neglected to notice the receipt of this
paper lately established in Augusta, Ga.
It is edited by a man whom it needs no
introduction of ours to make known to
our people—Father Ryan, the gifted and
eloquent writer and poet, whose grand
and soul-stirring poems, “The Conquered
Banner,” “In Memoriam,” and many
other master pieces of poesy, have stirred
the heart of every true Southern man to
its very core. Many of the brilliant
efforts of his pen are treasured up in
our “scrap book,” and occupy the choicest
niche in our memory. His writings have
filled a vacant spot in the Southern heart
and fireside until now unoccupied.—
Throughout the war, Father Ryan was a
firm, unwavering supporter of “The Lost
Cause,” and by his steadfast adherence,
served to render lighter the heavy burden
of deteat, aud now again, in our day of
trial, comes to cheer us on in the “battle
for right” we are waging against our re
lentless foes. God speed him ! The two
numbers we have received, realize the
most sanguine hopes we had entertained
of what it would be under his manage
ment and editorial supervision, and sup
plies a place in Southern literature we
had long wished to see filled. Every
family should subscribe to this paper, as
besides the editorials, which are unexcep
tionable, and of a high order of merit, its
selections are made with rare taste and
judgment. It is beautifully printed, in
plain, clear type, and is but $3.00, cur
rency, per year.
In the language, of a cotemporary, “we
congratulate the Southern people, and
particularly the Catholics, that they have
in their midst an advocate so able and
staunch,” and we predict for the Banner
a circulation far surpassing that of any
other Southern paper; and, *it is entitled
to it, if the number before us is a fair
specimen of what it will continue to be.
[Hempstead ( Tex.) Countryman.
“Waiter, 1 should like a clean napkin ;
this looks as though it had been through
the dock.” “Can’t change, my dear sir;
always give second-hand napkins with
single fish-balls, sir.” Customer looks a
quarto volume of disgust, mumbles some
thing about mops on the table, and swal
lows his fish-ball as though it were a
blue pill, in pieces.
Wit m& Httmor.
Mrs. K., after expressing her love f or
her young children, added tenderly
“And how do you like babies, Mr. Lamb”’
His answer, immediately, almost precipi.
tate, was, “Boi-boi-boiled, madam.”
A laborerer, while breaking stones on
the roadside, having a shade over one
eye as a guard, was thus accosted by a
companion: “I say, Tummy, hast ’ee lost
an eye?” “Why,” replied the other
hast ! ee found one ?”
“Do you really believe, Admiral,” said
a Washington lady to Admiral Farrao-ut
"that the dead walk after death V’ °*q
have not a doubt of it, madam,” replied
the gallant Admiral; “for I have myself
heard the ‘Dead March in Saul.’ ”
“Come till America, Pat,” writes asonof
the Emerald Isle, to his friend in Ireland •
“’tis a fine country to get a living i n
All ye have to do is to get a three-cor
nered box, and fill it with bricks, and carry
till the top of a three-story building, and
then the man at the top does *alltlic
work. ”
In a school, recently, a teacheV took oc
casion to relate an anecdote of the little
girl “who tried to ovorcome evil with
good,” by giving a New Testament to a
boy who had ill-treated her. The story was
appreciated, for, a few minutes afterwards
one boy struck another, and, on being
asked the reason, said he was “tryingto
get a Testament.” This was a practical
bearing altogether unexpected.
An irascible old gentleman was taken
with sneezing in the cars, lately. After
sneezing in the most spasmodic manner
eight times, he arrested the paroxysm fur
a moment, and extricating his handker
chief, he thus addressed his nasal organ,
indignantly, saying : “O, go on, go on—
you’ll blow your infernal brains out, pre
sently.”
“William, thee knows I never call
anybody names, but, William, if the
Mayor of the city were to come to me
and say, ‘Joshua, I want thee to find uie
the biggest liar in all Philadelphia,’ I
would come to thee and put my hand on
thy shoulder, and say to thee ; ‘William,
the Mayor wants to see thee.’ ”
Professor— “What do you understand
by the phrase, ‘a man of letters Pupil
—“A clerk in the Nassau Street Post
Office.” “Good ! What is the dog star ?”
Natural History student answers: “A
Skye terrier.” “Ahem! Give me your
definition of Orion ?” Pupil of sporting
tendencies—“He was a famous Irish
prize fighter (an ancestor of O’Baldwin,)
who carried off the champion’s belt.”
A noted Divine was lecturing on the
sufficiency of human testimony to estab
lish the truth of miracles, when a pupil
suggested a practical application oi the
doctrine. “What would you say, sir. if
I stated that, as I was coming by Col
lege Street, I saw the lamp-post at the
corner dance ?” “I should ask where
you had been, my son !” was the reply,
in the instructor’s gravest manner.
A Dutchman related the following
story : “Mine Cot, Hans, you may talk
as you be amind about te hogs peing te
contrairiest animal, butte hen is so much
more contrary a cood deal. Vy, no
longer than toder day, I try to make u
hen set. I make up a nest cood, put te
hen on ; She no set; I lam her down on
te eggs, but she will get up right off
Den I make a leetle box, bout so big one
way, and so pig toder way—den I make
a leetle box over her—and ten just takes
and raise te box to see whether she is
setting, pie tain, if I don’t tint tc old lien
set a standing .”
In the early display of Garrick Vpov.
ers at Drury Lane, a tragedy was brought
forward, in which he sustained the prin
cipal character of ail aged King. Thoug
there was nothing particularly brilliai
in the play, it proceeded without opposi
tion till the fifth act, when the dying
Monarch bequeathes his kingdom to he
two sons, in this line : “And wo, between
you I bequeath my crown.’’ A wit in the
pit exclaimed: “Ye gods ! he’s given thee
half a crown a piece !’’ The house was
immediately thrown into such a state
comic convulsion that not another word ot
the piece could be heard.
A Yankee, riding on a railroad, wa
disposed to astonish the other passenger
with tough stories. At last he mentioue -
that one of his neighbors owned an im
mense dairy, and made a million poun
of butter, and a million pounds
cheese yearly. The Yankee perceb u -
that his veracity was in danger ot be:R
questioned, appealed to a friend:
“True, isn't it, Air. ? I speaK
Deacon Brown.”
“Y-e-s,” replied the friend; “that ‘
know Deacon Brown, though I don t Jo;
as I ever heard precisely how uo
i pounds of butter and cheese he maia
; year ; but I know that ho has
‘saw-nrills that all go by buttermilk.