fe has
on a white dress with a velvet waist. The soldier is costumed in the
suit that we described in the Farewell, with the addition of a red
sash about the waist, gold epaulets on the shoulders, and a showy
plume in his hat. The hackman's costume consists of a rubber coat and
cap, long boots, and light pants. The scene requires a medium light,
which should come from the side opposite the soldier. Music of a
cheerful and lively style.

NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS.

FOR PREPARING A BRILLIANT RED FIRE.

Weigh five ounces of dry nitrate of strontia, one ounce and a half of
finely-powdered sulphur, five drams of chlorate of potash, and four
drams of sulphuret of antimony. Powder the sulphuret of antimony and
chlorate of potash separately in a mortar, and mix them on paper;
after which add them to the other ingredients, previously powdered and
mixed. For use, mix with a portion of the powder a small quantity of
spirits of wine, in a tin pan resembling a cheese-toaster; light the
mixture, and it will shed a rich crimson hue. When the fire burns dim
and badly, a very small quantity of finely-powdered charcoal or
lamp-black will revive it. This light is used in finale scenes, where
the subject is heroic, national, or martial.

GREEN FIRE.

A beautiful green fire may be thus made: Take of flour of sulphur,
thirteen parts; nitrate of baryta, seventy-seven; oxy-muriate of
potassa, five; metallic arsenic, two; and charcoal, three. Let the
nitrate of baryta be well dried and powdered; then add to it the other
ingredients, all finely pulverized, and exceedingly well mixed and
rubbed together. Place a portion of the composition on a small tin pan
having a polished reflector fitted to one side, and set fire to it,
when a splendid green illumination will be the result. By adding a
little calamine, it will burn more slowly.

PURPLE FIRE.

A purple fire is produced by dissolving chloride of lithium in spirits
of wine, and when lighted it will burn with a purple flame.

WHITISH-BLUE FIRE.

Take of nitrate of baryta, twenty-seven parts, by weight; of sulphur,
thirteen; of chloride of potassa, five; of realgar, two; and of
charcoal three parts. Incorporate them completely, and when inflamed
they will emit a whitish-blue light, accompanied by much smoke. This
light is much used in fairy scenes.

YELLOW FIRE.

Mix some common salt with spirits of wine, in a metal cup, and set it
upon a wire frame, over a spirit lamp