Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-04-22

THE BALL SEASON IN PARIs.-A writer in q
late United States paper furnishes some inter-
cssing statistics about the ball season in Pari5:
There arc 100 balls given each night, ne
says, between Twelfth Night and Slroye
| Tuesday, or ,6S9 in all; aud, St $50 guests
! st each, there is e total Of $4,000 persons.
Each requires q pair of now gloves, costing
| 1850, 600 francs. Cab fore, at three francs
| . night, Sums up TO 2,700,0 900 francs in tho
season. Allowing each lady to wear the same
ircss four times, and each dress to cost 200
frames, the attire Of the fair sex amounts to
-. 25D,0U0. Tho cojanres Tor baiT-drcsses,
or hnir-drcssing) cost ! .S00,00O francs. Satin
shJaa, 5000 Il night, cost .2,3G4,O00 francs ;
bouquets, $3.50, 600 francs and ninor orna-
mants at 80 francs a head--l7, $50, 900 francs
for tho season. Gc%ntienen's dresses may be
put at 5000, 600 francs, and tho expenses Of
the k0stt st $50 francs per night, Or 4,2le,aO0
f3T t!!e s4asGn. Here, in oil, for thiTty-eix
ball rights, is an outlay in Paris FEC 800 900
francs, or l,922,0o0 francs per night. All
| this, TOO, without counting bits masqnes, fan.
cYdrc:.i ba.lls, ~soirees dansanfes, welding balls,
rhiit:an's balls; concerts, or subscription. or
rIb!ic baile. A pretty sum, tdis-Sl4,OO0,OU
scent 10 5a!ls in t~bisty-six ~uigrsa. Attor all,
az c~zooil:nI thing for traie.
C.HTELopEs I'M Observation-Disclosures.
lolas CAV be raisal with all the Certainty of
tho cucumber and tho prmkin. Thy cequire
a little care III preparing and SOLICITING the
ground. A sandy loan il always 70 be pro-
ferrel, but any light, lria5le soil, With a
southern exposure, frea from prevailing .nois-
ture, will answer. The ground sEoe i &c dug
out to the depth Of eight OF ten inc ., eish-
teen inchesin diameter, which sl.9a,i nc filed
with onc.thirl well rotten sl5r. ml.,a:e, one
third good ssnd--should tho soil nvt possess
| any-and one-third rich earth, well mixed.
Tho hills should DO from eight TO twelve feet
| apart each way, IA room allowed, and the sced,
say five to a hill should be planted over the
| tho whole bill, an inch below tho surface.
| When The sprouts arc two inches high, give
| tIrem n fair sprinkliug Of wood ashes, while
tho dew is on, or utter watering them, and re-
| peat three or four times during the two follow
| ing weeks. This will drive away tho insects.
| When they are six inches high, remove all but
| two Or three vines, according to the spaoe boz
tween the rows, and carefully put round, not
i ~ the viIca, q little guano. In removing tho
| weeds from tho beds, tho vines should not be
! disturbed, az the ~rootlets which penetrate the
| earth from the vines, and which supply the
principle nourisbment to tho fruit, will be-
destroyed.
Wathermelons require exactly the same
| treatment, but tho crop is not as certain as
the cantelope. Still, ifa light friable, sand
soil, with . southeastern expose, is selected,
and the mountain sprout variety il planted, q
fair crop may almost DO counted on. We bayo
raised twanty.one edible watermelons from
thrco hills. Tho orange watermelon is worry
luscious and we think requires q rather short
season than others end produces abundantly.