CHAPTER XXXIX

. Rowdies and Beauty.--Ice as Jewelry.--Ice

Manufacture.--More Statistics.--Some Drummers.--Oleomargarine versus Butter.--Olive Oil versus Cotton Seed.--The Answer was not Caught. --A Terrific Episode.--A Sulphurous Canopy.--The Demons of War.--The Terrible Gauntlet.

## CHAPTER XL . In Flowers, like a Bride.--A White-washed Castle.--A

Southern Prospectus.--Pretty Pictures.--An Alligator's Meal.

## CHAPTER XLI . The Approaches to New Orleans.--A Stirring

Street.--Sanitary Improvements.--Journalistic Achievements.--Cisterns and Wells.

## CHAPTER XLII . Beautiful Grave-yards.--Chameleons and

Panaceas.--Inhumation and Infection.--Mortality and Epidemics.--The Cost of Funerals.

## CHAPTER XLIII . I meet an Acquaintance.--Coffins and Swell Houses.--Mrs.

O'Flaherty goes One Better.--Epidemics and Embamming.--Six hundred for a Good Case.--Joyful High Spirits.

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