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8 ENIGMA —No. 83. I am composed of 24 letters: My 15, 11, 18, 4,9, 1,8, 10, 23, is a dangerous reptile. My 3, 19, 6,7, 16, 20, 22, is the French of linnet. My 17, 10, 2, 12, is a precious metal. My 21, 14 ; 15, 13, is a conjunction. My 24, 19, 5, is a familiar word in the home circle. My whole you may see verified in the glossed appearance of many inhabitants of the world. “Beatrice.” Answer next week. St. Joseph's Academy, Columbus, Go., Oct., 1868. ENIGMA—No. 84. I am composed of 24 letters: My 11, 15, 10, 21, 4, 5. 18, 22, is a French name for a young woman. My 24, 16, 3,2, 15, is kind regard. My 13, 10, 23, 1, 20, is a boy’s name, abbreviated. My 6,9, 1, 14, 5, is a Spartan slave. My 19, 7, 22, 8, 16, is a fierce animal. My 18, 12, 2, 17, 4, is a demonstrative pronoun. My whole is an injunction left us by our Divine Saviour. “Gertrude.” Answer next week. St. Joseph’s Academy, Columbus, GI L, Oct. 1808. ENIGMA—No. 85. I am composed of 28 letters : My 9, 14, 22, 5,2, is the name of a tree. My 4. 27, 21, 13, 22, 26, IV, 19, 27, is a town in Indiana. My 1(>, 12, 18, 8,3, 20, 24, is a pldnt. My 28, 25, 10, 7, 23, 3, is a Spanish name for a governess. My 1, 21, 15, is to unite. My 11,3, 20, is a vehicle. My whole is a motto, applicable to the many’ trials and disappointments of life. Mary Ann. • Answer next week. St. Joseph’s Academy, Columbus, Ga., 1868. Answers to Last Week’s Enigmas, Etc. — To Enigma No. 81.—“ Thou shalt not Steal”—Unto —These —L seth—Hast —Shall—Let—Then— Not— them— Hath—That, To Enigma No. 82.—“A1l Quiet along the Savannah To-night”—Loathe-—A an quish— Note—Little —Tale —High—In- vasion—Hesitate—Gallant—Haul —Ele- vate—Gain—Quote. To Square Word — SOUTH O M N I A UNDER TIERS HAR S H Seeing is Deceiving. —Here is a row of ordinary capital letters and figures: SSSSXXXXZZZR333 888 They are such as are made up of two parts of equal shapes. Look carefully at these, and you will perceive that the upper halves of the characters are a very little smaller than the lower halves—so little that an ordinary eye will declare them to be of equal size. Now, turn the page up side down, and, without any careful look ing, you will see that this difference in size is very much exaggerated; that the real top half of the latter is very much smaller than the bottom half. It will be seen from this that there is a tendency in the eye to enlarge the upper part of any object upon which it looks. We might draw two circles of unequal sizes, and so place them that they should appear equal. —Once a Weeh. [Prepared for th Banner of the South by Uncle Buddy.] hAMILIAR SCIENCE, WATER —CONTINUED. Carbon, —Carbon is a solid substance, generally of a dark or black color, well known under the forms of charcoal, lamp-black, soot, etc. Carbon occurs in Nature, crystallized in two forms—the Diamond and the Graphite. Graphite is from the Greek word, graphein , to write. It also known by the name of plumbago, or black lead, and is used for making pencils for drawing and writing. India rubber erases pencil marks on paper, because it contains a very large quantity of carbon, while black lead is carbon and iron. Now, the carbon of the India rubber has so great an at traction for the black lead, that it takes up the loose traces of it left on the paper by the pencil. Caoutchouc, or India rubber, is a compound of carbon and hydrogen. Graphite, plumbago, or black lead, is a mineral substance composed chiefly of carbon, with a very small proportion of iron. The Diamond is chiefly found in India, the island oft Borneo, Brazil, and Aus tralia. It has also been found in North Carolina and Georgia; in the United States. Graphite is found in Ceylon, Germany, England, and other places; but the purest Graphite conies from Cey lon. A Crystal is the geometrical form pos sessed by a vast number of mineral and saline substancewhose particles com bine with one another by the attraction of cohesion, according to certain laws, the investigation of which belongs more properly to the science ot crystallography. The Diamond possesses the following peculiarities : It possesses a degree of hardness superior to that of any other min eral ; it scratches all other bodies, but is scratched by none. It acquires positive electricity by’ friction, but does not retain it for more than half an hour. It posses ses either single or double refraction ac cording to its crystalline form. When exposed to the sun’s rays lor a certain time, or to the blue rays of the pris matic spectrum, it becomes phosphores cent. “Phosphorescence” is that proper ty possessed by certain substances ot emitting a light of their.own. ihe dia mond can be burnt; but it requires a very strong heat, W hen burnt in oxy gen it forms carbonic acid. An example of carbon in its uncrystallized state is lamp-black, which is the soot piodueed by the imperfect combustion of oil or rosin, and is pure carbon in its uncrys tallized or amorphous state. Amor phous’” is shapeless, without form. Charcoal is wood which has been ex posed to a red heat till it has been de prived of all its gases and volatile pa-its. Charcoal removes the taint of meats be cause it absorbs all putrescent effluvia, whether they arise from animal or vegeta ble matter. There are other kinds of charcoal, such as coke, the charcoal of bituminous coal, and anthracite, which is a mineral char coal. Anthracite differs from bituminous coal in containing no bitumen, and, therefore, burning without flame or smoke. , A charcoal fire is better thair a wood fire, because charcoal is a very puie car bon ; and, as it is the carbon oi fuel which produces the glowing heat of combustion, therefore, the purer the carbon, the more intehse will the heat of the file be. . _ Coal is a fossil fuel of vegetable origiu, found under the surface of the earth. 1 at* largest coal fields in the world are in North America. Coal is also iound in great abundance in Great Britain, i lance, Germany, India, China, and Australia. Jet is a species of bituminous coal, found in Saxony and Prussia The eoarser kinds are used for fuel, and the finer sorts for the manufacture of breastpins, ear rings, and other tnnkets. Coal makes such excellent fuel, be cause it contains a large amount of carbon and hydrogen gas in a very compact and convenient fontt. Stones will not do as well for fuel as coal, because they contain no hydrogen, and little or no carbon. Iron cinders will not burn, because they contain impurities, which are not so ready to combine with oxygen as caibon and hydrogen are. Oil, tallow, and wax, are composed, principally, of carbon and hydrogen gas. Timbers, which arc to be exposed to damp, are first charred, because charcoal undergoes no change by exposure to air and water; in consequence of which, timber will resist weather much longer after it has been charred. Sick persons should eat dry toast, rather than bread and butter, because the char coal surface of the toast helps to absotb the acids and impurities of a sick stomach. Other reasons might be given, which, however, belong to the science of medicine. A piece of burnt bread will make im pure water fit to drink, because the sui face of the bread (which has been reduced to charcoal by being burnt), absorbs the impurities of the water, and matte* it palatable. . Water and wine casks are charred in side, because that reduces it to a kind of charcoal; and charcoal, (uy absorbing jjnimal and vegetable impurities), keeps the liquor sweet and good. Water is purified by being filtered through charcoal, because charcoal ab sorbs the impuritieS of the water, and re moves all disagreeable tastes and smehs, whether they arise from animal or vege table matter. Carbonic J.lcid .—Carbonic acid gas is formed by the union of carbon and oxy gen, It used to be called^fixed aii. Three pounds of carbon and eight pounds of oxygen will form eleven pounds of cai bouic acid- It is found in the air we breathe, in mines and cellais, in offei vescing wines, and in many minerals. At Brold, near Lake Laach, which occu pies the crater of an extinct volcano in Rhenish Prussia, six hundred thousand pounds weight of carbonic acid gas is dis charged from the ground every twenty four'hours. it is also generated by a ; lighted candle or lamp, and is formed by j the union of the carbon of the oil,' or tal -1 low, with the oxygen of the gas. i? mhii® Mil S9iraO [From the N. O. Picayune.] When Something in Life is Wrong. BY PEARL, RIVERS. High over the scented stacks of hay, And the shining rows of grain, The lark is thrilling, while yet he may, The tender heart of the gracious day V With joy by his rapturous strain. But what recks the girl in the country lane Os the lark, or the lark’s glad hymn ? Since never again, tho’ her life be long, From her thirsty heart will the fount of song Gush over her sweet lips’ brim. Look under, look over, and far away, The earth, like a queen, wears gold ; And royal banners float over the sky From gray cloud castles, wide and high, . Os purple and crimson fold. The sun, with his golden censor swung Low over the glowing West, Burns incense to God, and the flames rise bright, Flooding the world with a sweet, soft light, Baptising it into rest. But what cares the girl in the setting sun For glory of earth or sky V The giory of womanhood, Love, to-day, From the sky of her young life faded away, And she only cares to die. Ah! Autumn is golden, and Spring is green, And Summer is sweet and long ’j But what care we in our discontent For the earth’s adornment, hue, and scent, When something in life is wrong ? my Revenge. BY MARIA STOCKWELL. I do not think that I am a cruel wo man, naturally, though I know that* I put Ernest Gregory upon the rack with glad, eager hands. There were reasons, sufficient to satisfy myself, which led to the'planning of such a course, and which drove me to the accomplishment of these plans, when pnee formed; but, whether the harboring of such feelings, did not, at last, react upon myself, with a hardening, bitter influence, I cannot say. I did not care then. This Ernest Gregory, had been my sister’s husband, for two long, weary years, until she died, and was carried forth, from her home, to her quiet, blessed grave. When the ground was really over her, I breathed more freely than I had done since I saw her sweet, beautiful face, be side his dark, selfish, unfaithful one, upon their bridal morning. At least, she was out of his arms, and, away from his in fluence now. For that, I thanked God’, while I nerved myself for the work, which I was at last free to perform. While my sister lived, I had borne all for her sake. Let him beware now ! For every smiling, tender word he had dared to insult me with, he should receive a hundred-fold reward. For every mo ment of suffering, his neglect had given the being who was more than my life to me, he should receive full recompense at last. Let him beware, indeed! I meant to make him love me, as a man loves what he would die for. It was not enough that he should admire and ask me to be his wife; he must be so bound up in my life, that to sever would be a living death. I was a desperate woman, bound to a single purpose. Little danger, but 1 should succeed! For six months, I kept upon the outer verge of his love, eluding him here and there, as a butter-fly eludes your grasp, until he was half ready to grasp, and crush me. Then I began to tighten the chains. One day I would make him feel all the love that I had might be his; the next, that I was heights upon heights above him. “ I believe you hate me,” he said, as we walked together through a soft June twilight. “ Do you ! How absurd!” I answered, lightly, though the blood that hate arouses, was boiling through my veins. He bentdown, and looked into my face. “Your eyes glitter like fire, but such a hard, cruel look as they nave ! Oh, Marcia! will you ever be mine ? ” “If the Fates have so decreed,” I an swered, nonchalantly. “You believe in Fate, I think ? ” looking into his eyes, tenderly. “ I believe in anything that will bring me nearer you.” His voice was husky in its earnest ness and passion. “We spoil the quiet of the night— and, besides, I must go home. I have an engagement,” I said, turning about sud denly. “ Let me touch your lips once, Mar cia ? ” “ Not for a thousand worlds !” I an swered quietly. He dropped my arm, and turned back, saying: “ I will leave you, then.” “Very well,” I answered, as placidly as before. He came back in an instant. “Itisof no use. I believe there was never a slave bound.by such chains as I.” “Nonsense! You would forget mein a week, were I away.” “ For Heaven’s sake, don’t try me. It would be worse than torture to lose you for that length oftime, in thi9 uncertainty.” How I remembered then the other one he had wooed and won; and how 1 remembered and thought of her far into that quiet night! She who should have had only brightness and joy, to be cheated with dust and ashes! who should have had truth and right, and honor, to guide her, to be forced to walk beside a cowardly traitor ! A sweet, gentle wo man, fragile as an Auiumn leaf, tender and forgiving as an Angel, what she suf fered, who can tell ? Just once she said this much to me: “Marcia, life looks dark, and so different from what I thought it once.” “But Heaven is yours,” I said, throwing my arms around her, and try ing to hide the tears upon my face. But to continue. The days wore on. The luscious Au tumn came, laden with its fruits and flow ers. The maples dropped their crimson and scarlet leaves, like wine-drops at a feast, the thrush and woodpecker called loudly from the chestnut tops, the earth’s high carnival would soon be past. I looked around with-steady eyes, and said: “The Winter is corning to me. It shall be Spring no longer in Ernest Gregory’s heart.” We were far up the mountain side, he and I—lie, radiant, and happy, because I meant that he should be thus; I, serene and—waiting. “ Let us go over the top, and down through the hollow, home. You remem ber the way ? ” “ Oh, yes, I remember,” I answered. “And, you will say, ‘I love you,’ be fore the sun sets.” “ I promise an answer, true. It will be whatever my heart says.” “I am not afraid. I have read love in your eyes, all this golden day.” “ Have you ?” I answered, in careful ly modulated tones, smiling meanwhile into his eager face. “Wait!” “ With you, I can wait forever! ” We rode slowly up the steep ascent, and then, I struck into a hard, fierce gallop. There are times when one seems to fear nothing. That was such a day to me; and the exhilerating air, which whirled around me, seemed to fill me with new daring. Neither spoke a word until we came into the edge of the village. Then I slackened my pace a little, and, turning from the road, said: “Come! I must stop a moment yonder,” pointing towards the burying ground. Lie suspected nothing, yet, being wholly 7 taken up with his own blissful dreams. At the gate, I dismounted, he doing the same, and we went int 6 the Church-yard together, and stood looking down upon my sister’s grave. For a moment both were silent. Then, I said, slowy: “Do you want your an swer ? Listen. Long before this grave was either dug, or filled, you dared to throw your smiles into my face; and, day by day, even while the heart which loved you, as God forbid you should ever be loved again, was breaking, inch by inch, you went on your dastardly way, neither knowing, nor caring, whether she died, or lived. Above her dead, cold form, l vowed to have revenge. I meant that you should suffer, as your white lips say you do. Know, then, that, while I smiled into your eyes, I loathed you with an utter loathing. You have your answer. Go ! ” 1 hurried out, mounting my horse, and rode swiftly home. As I was entering the house, Ernest Gregory's voice, so changed, I should scarcely have known it, stopped me. “ Wait, Marcia ! lam a wicked man, I know, but your love might have saved me. Remember that, when you hear of me again.” Yesterday, who should I see ascend into the pulpit of a West End Church, but Ernest Gregory! The face I should have known anywhere, though there was an indescribable difference between it, and the oue I had seen so white and pallid as it left me years ago. I listened to the sermon, like one in a dream, though, more than a hundred times I sent up thanks to Heaven, that lie stood before me, saved, and, not ruined, as I had hoped he would be in the long ago. At the close of the service, he came down, and pressing through the crowd, touched my arm. “You know me ? ” he said, in a whis per. I bowed my head. “ I meant—you remember when—to have gone straight to ruin; but I am striving for Heaven instead. Can you forgive the past ? ” 1 put out my hand. “ Forgive me, rather. I have seen my wickedness since.” “ 1 think she looks down from Heaven, and helps me,” he said, his voice trernb ling. After all, there is something sweeter than and that is Forgiveness, for, therein lies the way to Heaven. Wit and Humor. A tired oysterman discouragingly that life is mere dredgery. A Wisconsin paper, describing a lar gl . farm, which the advertiser wants to sell adds the following : u The surrounding country is nioßt beautiful; also, two wagons and a y o k e of 6teers.” A lady, writing upon the subject says “ When men break their hearts, it i s th e same as when a lobster breaks one of his claws —another sprouting immediately, and growing in its place.” A disturbed preacher remarked: “If that cross-eyed lady in the side aisle with red hair, and a blue bonnet, don't stop talking, I must draw attention to her.” An aged bachelor, being asked if l le ever saw a public execution, was rascal enough to say : “ No; but I once saw a marriage.” He is still at large. A y’oung man advertises for a situation as son-iu-law in some respectable family. Would have no objection, he says, to going a short distance in the country. “ Come here, my little man,” said a gentleman to a youngster of four years of age, while sitting in the parlor where a large company were assembled; “Do you know me ?” “ Yes, sir, I think I do.” “ Who am I then ? let me know.” “ You are the man that kissed Jane last night in the parlor.” A Western minister wcnt’to church recently and took his seat with the con gregation, refusing to preach because his salary’ had not been paid. Wide fore head. The Boise Democrat says, in a recent issue: “We have had crickets on the plain and grasshoppers in the valley 7, and now we’ve got bedbugs in town, and of all the aggravations ever known # or heard of, bedbugs bid fair to take the palm.” A correspondent writes that, if we de sire it, he will “send us something to till up with.” That’s just what we want Suppose you commence now with a good roasting piece of beef and a barrel of flour. A dandy, strutting about a tavern, took up a pair of green spectacles which* lay on the table, put them on his nose, and turn ing to the looking-glass, said: “Landlord, how do these become me ? Don’t you think they improve rny look ?” “I think they do,” replied the landlord, “they hide a part of your face.” A Quaker, on hearing a man swear at a particularly bad piece of road, said: “Friend, I am under the greatest obliga tion to thee. I would myself have dune what thou hast dime, but my religion for bids me. Don’t let my conscience, how ever, bridle thee; give thy indignation wings, and suffer not the prejudice of others to paralyze the tongue of justice and long suffering—yea, verily.” A temperance lecturer descanting on the superior virtues of cold water re marked: “When the world had become so corrupt that the Lord could do nothing with it, he was obliged to give it a thorough sousing in cold water.” “Yes/ replied a toper present, “ but it killed every critter on the face of the earth.” Editing a daily newspaper is supposed by some people to be as easy as lying. Their inclination to and long practice in the latter, blinds their vision in relation to the formM’. Men who can get as fat as aldermen in lying, would run their boues through the skin in trying to edit a newspaper. FROM THE PERSIAN OF HAFIZ. Two ears, and but a single tongue, By Nature’s laws to man belong; The lesson she would teach is clear: “ Repeat but half of what you hear. " A bridegroom in France fell asleep after’the ceremony, and could not 1" awakened for nine days. He took time by the forelock in anticipation of curtain lectures. THE POET FOILED, To win the maid, the poet tries, And sonnets writes to Julia’s eyes; She likes a verse—but cruel whim, She still appears averse to him. The following is attributed to the p cli of a distinguished candidate for the Inst office in the gift of the people : Into the pure and crystal cup A gill I poured of ancient rye. And, as with this I mixed it up. The water smiled—and so did I. u. 8. <>• Honor thy Gravy — lt is not a bad thing, (for a classic joke) which is told Antagoras, the poet, and which bespeak a fine instinct for cooking. Autagora having a bird to cook, refused to g° bath, as usual, for fear, in his absence, the slaves should come and sop. up 1 gravy. “Let your mother watch it, - cau his friend Philoacydes, very natimmy “What!” replied that great creature “what! Entrust the gravy ot one’s mother ? The Gods forbid. Dicken’s All the lean Round.