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8 fjmttft'is jlepartment. Counting Baby's Toes. Dear little bar® feet, Dimpled and white, 1 n your long night gow» Wrapped for the night, Come let me count all Your queer toes, Pink as the heart Os a shell or a rose ! < >ne is a lady That nits in the sun; Two is a baby, And three is a nun; • Four is a lily With innocent breast : Five is a birdie Asleep on her nest. ENIGMA—No. 93. T am composed of 18 letters: My 2, 12, 10, 4,9, is an animal. My 1. 5, 11, is a weight. My 4. 14, 18, we should avoid. My 8,6, 7, is a place to live in. My 10, 17, 4,9, is a flower. My 4, 16, 13, is a small taste. My 15, 14, 11,3, is a number. My 4, 8,12, 9,4, arc articles of wear. My 1,8, 3, is an article. My whole was a true Southern paper. D. S. M. Answer next week. Avgusta, Oa., 1808. ENIGMA—No. 94. 1 ain composed of 23 letters: My 19, 20, 10, 17, 2,5, is the name of a roguish General. My 8,6, 1,6, 22, is an idolator. My 7,9, 10, 12, 22, is one of the dead languages. My 23, G, 1,7, 23, is a bird of prey. My 8, 12, 14, 2, is a fish of prey. My 8, 21, 4, IG, 12, 8, 12, 10, 4, is an abyss. My 15, 18, 19,18, 17, is what my whole was often called by the Yankees. My 19, 20, 7,7, 5, 20,3, a stream crossed by the Yanks on their flight from Manassas, which should, henceforth, be called ’‘Yankee Run.” My 23, 11, 11, is what we are apt to do every moment of our lives. My 21, 9, 13, 14, is an instrument of torture often used during the Inquisition. My 13, 15, 9,3, 2, is a water fowl. My whole is the name of one of Ire land’s noblest sons, who willingly laid down his life in defence of the Sunny South. Paola. Answer uext week. Halcyondale , Ga., Oct., 1868. ENIGMA—No. 95. ACROSTICAL. lain composed ot 28 letters: My 1,5, 11, 4,1, 10, 10, is one desig nated. My 2,6, 16, is a busy little insect. My 3,4, 11, 10, is a part of duration. My 4, 13, 23, 19, 14, 23, 2, 11, is a cream flavored aud frozen. My 5. 18, 23, 15, 21, is the largest body of water. My 6, 26, 28, 10, is a number. My 7 : 8, 12, 23, is a tree of several species. My 8, 15, is a note in music. My 9, 17, 11, 23, is ten cents. My 10, 21, 16, 17, 18, 23, is to incite to evil. My 11, 15, 21. 23, is long hair on the neck of beasts. My 12, 14, 15, 3,4, 5,6, is a public speech. My 13, 8, 17, 23, 24, 25, is the em ployer of an Attorney. My 14 15, 16, is a small animal. My 15, 16, 16, 17, 18, is a small room near the roof. Mv 16, 17,9, 10, is the flowing of the sea. My 17, 18, 23, is water congealed. My 18, 2, 21, 18. 23, 8, is to obliterate. My 19, 2, 21, 12, 10, is a small boat. My 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, is a vegetable. My 21, 2, 25, 26, 27, 28, is a people under one Government. My 22, 15, 25 is a cistern. My 23, 24, 25, 2, 26, 8, is to give a light to. My 24, 20, 20, 21, is at twelve o’clock in the day. My 25, 27, 28, is a weight. My 26, 28, 28, is a public house. My 27, 28, 23, is a single thing. My 28, 2,3, 4,5, 6,7, 8, is pertaining to a Nation. My whole is the name of an Assembly lately convened in one of the Northern Cities. Johnnie X. Answer next week. Silvia, Ala., Oct., 1868. Answers to Last Week’s Enigmas.— To Enigma No. 90—The Greciau fiend— The—Sine—Badge—Gain—Case— lien Hat—Car. Vo Enigma No. 91. — Sir Walter Scott —Sir—Tar —Are—Law—Cat —Rat r Tea—Law. To Enigma No. 92. —“It is Easy to Forget what it Costs a Pang to Remem ber”— Teneriffe— Paris— Grampian— Y enesei—Corea—S ia rn Senegambia— Campeachy—Wight—Westray —Saco— “Gotham”— Ohio— Fair Weather Oporto— Oasis— Benton— Titicaca— Troy—Beatta—Tiber. “Quilp” thus squares the word : Head. Body. Tail. N O W—(lst word.) O W N—(2d word.) W O N—(3d word.) llow to Tell the Age of any Person. —Request the person to inform you in which of the following columns his or her age is contained; then add together the figures at the top of the columns designa ted, and you have the secret. Suppose an age to be seventeen; you will find the number seventeen in only two columns, viz : the first and the fifth—and the first figures at the head of these columns make seventeen. Here is the magic table : Ist 2d 3d 4th sth 6th l 2 4 8 10 32 33 5 9 17 33 5 6 6 10 18 34 7 7 7 11 19 35 9 10 12 12 20 36 11 11 13 13 21 37 13 14 14 14 22 38 15 15 15 15 23 39 17 18 20 24 21 40 19 19 21 25 25 41 21 22 22 26 26 42 23 23 23 27 27 43 25 26 28 28 2S 44 27 27 29 29, 29 45 29 30 30 30 30 46 31 31 31 31 31 47 33 34 36 40 48 48 35 35 37 41 49 49 37 38 38 42 50 50 39 39 39 43 51 51 41 42 44 44 52 52 43 43 45 45 53 53 45 46 46 46 54 54 47 47 47 47 55 55 49 50 52 56 56 56 51 51 53 57 57 57 53 .54 54 58 58 58 55 55 55 59 59 59 57 58 60 60 (50 60 59 59 61 61 61 61 61 62 62 62 62 62 63 63 63 63 63 63 [Prepared for the Banner of the South by Uncle Buddy. * ! FAMILIAR SCIENCE. CA R BON 1C AC ID —CONTIN U ED. | . i Effervescence is caused in this way : I The carbonic acid of the beverage being i prevented by the cork from escaping, is forced into the liquor by the pressure, and absorbed by it; but when the cork or pressure is removed, some of the carbonic acid Hies off in bubbles or efferves cence. JKrated water will effervesce when the cork is removed, because, while the bottle remains corked, carbonic acid is forced into the water by pressure, and absorbed by it; but wli.'n the pressure is removed, some of the corbouic acid flies | off in effervescence. .Soda or mineral water effervesces, be cause, into this water is forced many times its own bulk of carbonic acid gas which makes its escape in effervescence as soon as the cork is removed. Ginger-pop flies about in froth when the string of the cork is cut, because it contains carbonic acid gas. While the cork is fast, the carbonic acid is forced into the liquor; but when the pressure is removed, the gas is given off in effer vescence. All vinous fermentation pro- i duces carbonic acid. Bottled ale froths more than draught ale, because the pres sure is greater in a bottle than in a tub, which is continually tapped ; and effer vescence is always increased by pleasure. The froth of bottled ale is produced by the carbonic acid generated by the vinous fermentation of the liquor, i bis gas is absorbed by the ale so long as the bottle is well corked, but is given off in froth when the pressure of the cork is removed. The pleasant acid taste given to soda or mineral water, ging; r beer, champagne, j and cider, is caused by the presence oi j carbonic acid generated by termentation, | and liberated by effervescence when the ; pressure of the cork is removed. The effervescence of soda, mineral water, and "inger-beer goes (f so soou ; because the j carbonic acid, which produced the effer- j vescence very rapidly escapes into the j air. A champagne cork will fly off the : instant it lias been loosened from the , neck of the bottle, because the great | quantity of carbonic gas contained in the liquor can no longer be confined, and, , seeking to escape, drives out the cork j with great violence. W hen the cork of a champagne or mineral water bottle ; is drawn, a loud report is made, because champagne and mineral water contain a great amount of carbonic acid gas, which, beiii2 suddenly liberated, strikes against the at r, and, produces the report. Hartshorn will takeout the red spot in Mill! ©I fll SBUm. cloth produced by any acid, becanse harts horn is an alkali, and the peculiar pro perty of all acids, soda, potash, and mag nesia are alkalies. Upon this principle effervescing drinks arc made of carbon ate of soda (an alkali,) and citric or tar taric acid. Effei vescence is produced by the giving off of carbonio acid during j the process of neutralization. The car bonic acid is formed by the carbon of the ; carbonate of soda combining with the oxy ! gen of the acid. An alkali is the con | verse of an acid, as bitter is the converse of sweet, or insipid the converse of pun gent. Carbonetted Hydrogen —M arsh-gas, or fire-damp, is carburetted hydrogen gas accumulated on marshes, in stagnant wa ters, and in coal pits. It, is frequently called inflammable air. Carbonetted hy drogen is the kind of gas used in lighting the streets of cities, Carburetted hydro gen gas is carbon combined with hydro gen. It may he procured on marshes by stirring the mud at the bottom of any stagnant pool, and collecting the gas, as it escapes upward, in an inverted glass vessel. Coal gas is carburetted hydrogen ex tracted from coal by the heat oi fire. Carburetted hydrogen gas is called fire damp or inflammable air, because it very readily catches fire and explodes when a light is introduced to it, provided atmos pheric air be present. It is also frequently called marsh-gas, because it is generated in meadows and marshes, from putrefying vegetable sub stances. Carburetted hydrogen gas is evolved by the wick (fa burning candle. The carbon and hydrogen of the tallow com bine into a gas from the heat of the flame; and the gas is called carburetted hydrogen or inflammable air. Coal mines frequently explode, because the carbonic hydrogen gas generated in these mines explodes when a light is incautiously introduced. Miners can sec in the coal pits by the use of a lantern invented by Sir Humphrey Davy called “the Safety Lamp” which may be used without danger. It was invented in the year 1815. Sir Humphrey Davy was a very ingenious chemist, born in Corn wall, England, in 1778 and died in Gene va, Switzerland, in 1829. The safety lamp is a kind of lantern covered with a fine gauze wire, instead of glass or horn. ; This fine gazge wire prevents an ex plosion in the coal mine, by preventing the flame of the lamp from communicat ing with the inflammnble gas of the mine. The interstices of the gauze wire must not exceed one-twentieth of an inch in diameter, and there should not be fewer than six hundred and twenty-five aper tures to the square inch. Flame will not I pass through very fine wire gauze, be-1 cause the metal wire is a very rapid con-1 doctor of beat; and when the flame of*j gas that is burning in the lamp reaches! the wire gauze, so much heat is conducted away by the wire- that the flame is ex- j tinguished. The gas of the coal-pit gets through the wire gauze into the lamp,> and the inflammable gas ignites and burns inside of the lamp When this is the! case, the miner is in danger, and should j withdraw. When the carburetted hydrogen gas takes fire from the miner's candle, the miner sometimes perishes in the blast of the flames, and sometimes is suffocated by the carbonic acid which is thus produced. j THE THIEF AND THE CHILD- In the neighbring town there was a Fair; and, therefore, all the people were gone from the village to the town, to be merry there, and make purchases. In the village, when evening came, it was quite silent. No one was either seen or heard there. The draw-well, such a noisy place in the evening when the girls came to fetch water, was quite deserted. The great linden tree, beneath which the peasant lads sat in the evening, and sing, was also deserted. There was only now a solitary little bird singing among the branches. The very roots of the old tree, the great play place of the village children, were deserted; you only saw a few ants, which had overstayed their time at work, hurrying home as fast as they could. Twilight sank down gradually over everything. When the merry, noisy birds had crept into their roosting places, the queer little bats glided iorth from holes in the tree stein, and flew gently and softly about through the evening sky. A man came round the corner of a barn. He crept, silently and in fear, along the wall where the shadow was strongest. He glanced around with anxiety to see whether any other men were out who would see him When he believed himself unobserved, he climbed over the wall; then he crept on all fours like a cat, till he came to an open window. The man had bad thoughts in his heart; he was a thief, and had deter mined to rob the people of the house. When he had entered the window, he found himself in an empty room; and close to this room was a chamber. The door leading into this chamber was not locked. The thief imagined it possible that, although the people had gone to the Fair, someone might still be in the room; therefore, he listened, with his ear to the door. lie heard a child’s voice, and, looking in through the key-hole, by the glimmer ing light from the window, he saw that a child was sitting up ail by itself, in its little bed, praying. The little child was saying the Lord’s prayer before going to sleep, as it had been taught by its mother to clo. 0 The man was pondering how lie might best rob the house, when the child’s clear, loud voice fell upon his ear, as it prayed these words: u And lead us not into temptation , but deliver us from evil." The words smote the man’s heartland his slumbered conscience awoke. lie ■felt how great was the sin he was about to commit He also folded his hands and prayed : “And lead us not into tempta tion, but deliver us from evil !” And our dear Lord heard him. By the same road that he came he re turned, and crept back into his chamber. Here he repented with his heart all the evil he had done in his life, besought God for forgiveness, and returned thanks to Him for the protection He had sent him through the voice of a pious child. He has since become an industrious and honest man. Bea Look. —l have already expressed my contempt for one description of fash ionable folly ; let me here hint another. Why are young ladies often taught the use of tiie celestial globe, (which is really of no use, ) but never cookery ? If 1 was a young government clerk, or a ! barrister who had just done “eating his dinner” only in one sense, how much rather would I marry a girl who could give me a good omelette until we could afford to keep an artiste, than one who i could speak French with an English ac-! cent, or play indifferently on a cheap j piano, or know “Magnali’s Questions” by heart? Talk of romance! In all the fiction of courtship—l mean in ali the courtships of fiction—what* is more touching than the making of that beaf steak pudding by Tom Pinch’s sister !! And this is an attraction, remember, that! when beauty has departed, when the be- j loved object lias become an object, (to i the casual observer,) and there is not j enough of her hair left at the back of her 1 head to cover her frizette! O woman, woman ! take my advice, and learn to cook l Then shall your gentle ministra tion be as a sweet savor in the nostrils ot your husband, and your labor be accepta ble unto him, even when you had four teen children. Teach all your girls to cook, and you shall be blessed even by the generation that comes after you The teachings of the just smell sweet, and simmer even in thier dust. Or if moral considerations have no weight with you, reflect how infinitely preferable it is for your daughter to boa culinary ar tiste and ruler tie facto of a great house houid, than to be a governess, with half her salary, and snubbed by the servants. ["Cooks,” in Chambers Journal. Charity.— The best charity is not that which giveth aims, whether secretly or with ostentation. The best eharity that which “worketh no evil”—is the charity that prompts us to think and speak well of our neighbors. Even if they be openly condemned, and that with warrant, it is a noble charity in us not to gall their wounds by multiplying knowledge of their offences. We are all ashamed to confess that our quickest instincts are to think ill of others, or to magnify the ill which we hear. There is a universal shrugging of the shoul ers, as much as to say—well. I expected as much—l had my suspicions other—“l could a talc un fold”—and thus on through an endless chapter with which every reader will be somewhat familiar, from his or her own experience. Now, one who says: “] could a tale unfold,” yet holds it back, leaving the hearer to infer any and every evil, stabs character with the meanest, deadliest blow. Yet who is there that carries not this ever-roady weapon—this poisoned dagger ! The charity that gives, to help and not humiliate, is good: but the charity that makes us “think no evil” is better. Let us seek to possess this charity, and practice it, for it alone is the “charity that covereth a multitude of sins.” Prof ssor C. A. Joy, of Columbia Col lege, has received from the State Depart ment two medals, (one silver, and one bronze,) and a diploma, awarded to him for services rendered at the Paris Inter national Exhibition. TO and Mttunor. An old lady beiug at a loss for u p j Q . cushion, made one of an onion. Oa ih," following morning she found that u ]| needles had tears in their eyes. Anew mode of dispersing a mob } )K been discovered, which is said to ?it , r sede the necessity of a military force fi is to pass around a contribution box. AN IRISH QUERY. Och, when gay sparks the swate young laUit s w, Their little hearts catch Are in raal quick laO And isn’t it because they’re victims to The tinder pashion ? So many weddings have taken place in New York this week that our popula tion is on the decrease—since every rnonv of this sort makes two people Om !Y. 1 Express. Two Quaker girls were ironing on the same table. One asked the other which she would take, the right or the left. She answered promptly: “[t will be right m me to take the left, and (hen it will p. left for thee to take the right. A young lady once married a man bv the name of Dust, against the wishes of her parents. After a short time they lived unhappily together, and she re turned to her father’s house, but he re fused her, saying; “Dust thou art, and unto Dust thou slialt return !” Anew Hampshire editor, who has kept a record of big beets, announces, at last that “the beet that beat the beet that beat the other beet, is now beaten bv a beet that beats all the beats, wheihei ibl original beet,.the beet that beat the beet or the beet that beat the beet that heal the beat.” An old lady, on a steamboat,observed two men pumping up water to wash the deck, and the captain being near, she ac costed him as follows: “Well, Captain, got a well aboard, Hi ?" “Yes, ma’am, always carry one,” said the polite Captain. “ Well, that’s clever. I always disliked the nasty river water, especially in day/.” Something Like.a Love.—“ Amelia, for thee—yes, at thy command, I’d tear this eternal firmanent in a thousand fragments; I’d gather the stars one bv one, as they tumble from the regions of ethereal space, and put them in my trousers pocket: I’d pluck the sun, that oriental god of a ay, that traverses the blue irch of heaven in majestic splendor—l’d tear him from the sky, and quench his bright effulgence in the fountain of my et< rnai love for thee! Lend me five dollars, dearest! Crowding Him.— “ Where is vour house ?” asked a traveler in the depths of one of the old “Solemn WildernessV’ of the West. “House? I ain’t got no house!” “Well, where do you live?” “I live in the woods, sleep ou the Gov ernment, eat raw bear and wild turkey, and drink out of the Mississippi. And.” he added “it is getting too thick with you folks about here. You’re the second man I seen this last mouth, and 1 hear that there’s a. whole family come in about fifty miles down the river.’ I'm going to put out in the woods again.” Sharp Little Boy.— Among the pas sengers in a stage coach was a little gen tleman who had possibly seen five sum liners. The coach being quite ful, he t sat in the lap of another passenger. ; While on the way something was said about pickpockets, and soon the conver sation became general on that interesting subject. The gentleman who was then holding our young friend, remarked “My fine fellow, how ea.sv 1 could pick your pockets” “No you couldn’t.' !>' replied: T’ve been looking out lor you all the time!” A Candid Urchin. —“ What did your mother say, my little man ? Did you give her my card? ” asked an inexperi enced young scntlemar, of a little boy, whose mother had given him an nvw - tion to call upon Lor, and whose s.ru’ door was accordingly opened to hi.- un timely summons by the urchin. “Yes, sir,”said the urchin, quite an - cently, “and mother .-aid, if y u w ; v not a natural born look you wouldn’t >• t. on Monday mornin’ a time when every body was wash in !’ ” At this juncture, mamma, with a -wee! smile ot welcome, made her appeal am at the end of the hall, when, to m prise, Mr. Ycrisopht, tin* vi.-itor, bote “What in the world docs the max mean?” inquired the mother. “I dunno,’” replied the urchin; ‘yuc he's forgot suthin’ !” No Sugar.— A neat compliuiei. 'ey paid the other day to a lady. just swallowed a small glass ot w ine. ; gentleman in company asked lot a 1 ’ It’s all gone,” said she laughingly; ; less you take some Irom my hpy should be most happy,” he replied. I never take sugar in mine.'