CHAPTER XXXVII.

THE END OP THE 'GOLD DUST/

t-AGB

A Terrible Disaster—The ' Gold Dnst ' Explodes her Boilers— The End

of a Good Man ....... • • * 352

CHAPTER XXXVTII.

THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL.

Mr. Dickens has a Word — Best Dwellings and their Furniture — Albums
and Music — Pantalettes and Conch -shells — Sugar-candy Babbits and
Photographs — Horse-hair Sofas and Snuffers — Bag Carpets and Bridal
Chambers . .......... 354

CHAPTER

MANUPACTUBES AND MISCBEAOTS.

Rowdies and Beauty — Ice as Jewellery — Ice Manufacture — More Sta-
tistics — Some Drummers — Oleomargarine versus Butter — Olive Oil
versus Cotton Seed — The Answer was not Caught — A Terrific Epi-
sode — A Sulphurous Canopy — The Demons of War — The Terrible
Gauntlet . ........... 367

CHAPTER XL.

CASTLES AND CULTURE.

In Blowers, like a Bride — A White-washed Castle — A Southern Prospec-

tus—Pretty Pictures— An Alligator's Meal ...... 369

CHAPTER "XT/T,

THE METBOPOLIS OF THE SOUTH.

The Approaches to New Orleans — A Stirring Street — Sanitary Improve-

ments — Journalistic Achievements — Cisterns and Wells . . .875

CHAPTER
HYGIENE Aim SENTIMENT.
Beautiful Grave-yards — Chameleons and Panacea* — Inhumation and
Infection— Mortality and Epidemics — The Cost of Funerals . « 883