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Advertisements not specified as to time, published until ordered out, and charged accordingly.; All advertisements considered due from flrßt Inser tion. One inch to constitute a square. POETKY. BINU TO THE SEAM. BY MBR. 8. L. OBERHOLTZKR, The girl who sits in the porchway low Sings to her needle as to and fro It weaves the seam with its glittering glow, Close in the garment she holds to sew, ' Sing to the seam ; Sing it your dream ; / Lodge in each stitch Part of its gleam. No "song of the shirt" sings she, oh no. Her words are gleeful, happy and low ; While the shining needle, fast or slow, Tosses the thread that it shorter grow. Sing to the seam ; Sing it your dream ; Lodge in each stitch Part of its gleam. A song's good oompany while you sew; It helps the needle to onward go And trace its ; work in a dainty row O'er the downy, drifted, cambric snow. Sing to the seam ; Sing it your dream ; Lodge in each stitch Part of its gleam. A simple song with no work below Is lost on the empty air, you know ; liut tune and labor, together aglow. The richest blessings of time bestow. Sing to the seam ; Sing it your dream ; Lodge in each stitch yj Part of its gleam. ■IKCfXLANY. French Agronomical Investiga tions. One of the Marseilles astronomers has devised a method of determining the apparent diameter of the stars, which he claims to be of peculiar merit. If, through a first-class telescope, a star, whose angular diameter is really nothing, be viewed through a suffi ciently high magnifying power, the image is seen to be a bright spot sur rounded by the concentric rings of light and- shade which are called dif f r Anki. n.n. nn g& ...-New, it that these rings; if of extreme faint ness and distance from the central spot can only be formed when the angular diameter of the source of light is nearly insensible; and, following out this very unique suggestion, M. Frizeau has applied to the Marseilles telescope a diaphragm having two apertures for the observation, in s suitable manner, of the fringes produced by the inter ference. Now, according to this arrangement, it is found that if a star has a certain diameter, the fringes will disappear altogether, and if the diameter is zero the distances of the fringes will Yary with the distances of the two aper tures in the diaphragm. Among the results of the investigations in this direction is the interesting fact that Sirus appears to have a measurable diameter. > •' ' The Itrrsclh ef Wood and (be Efficiency oi ike Ax. In a recent volume of the annals of the Forest Academy, at Mariabrun, near Vienna, Prof. W. F. Einer gives a novel and highly instructive analysis of the elastieity and strength of wood, its resistence to splitting, and the use of the wedge, the ax, fcc. The im portance of these matters he shows to be vwvtgneat, because great industries depend upon the facility with which upon the appli oabiktoof^rtainkinds of wood. Hav ing deduced a few simple formula to ex P r strength of woods and the power of the wedge, he develops a for mula for the force with whiohim ax is handled, and shows what curve should be given to the faoe or cheek of the ax. in order to secure, under oertain con ditions the last waste of power. By these fonnulsß he is able to demon, strata that the splitting efficiencies of the best axes made in Vienna, Prague aad America, are to each other ss 15.8, 9.2, and 4.9, respectively ; and "apply ing his formulas to the elaborate ex- of Nordlingen, be is able to deduce tm absolute ease with whioh vanoqaj»Opds be split. A smashing business—Kunuing rail roads. - • , v U .> i ' -i "* ■ ' '' •• ----- - '' Vt\ - " , GRAHAM, ALAMANCE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, MARCH 30. 1875. THE UNKNOWN DEI I'll. A DETECTIVE'S STORY. Murder had been done in Philadel phia—or, at least, so it was supposed— and the papers were full ef it. The journals were divided in opinion about the matter, some maintaining that it was a case of simple suicide, others in clining to the belief that there had been foul play, and still others arguing in favor of death from natural though un known causes. Indeed, it would ap pear, at first sight, as if the latter were the true supposition, and the majority of superficial readers and thinkers who talked over the affair at home or in the streets the next day, Beemed to have very little trouble in arriving at a like conclusion. . All that was known was this : an es teemed citizen—a man of wealth and high standing—had retired to rest the night before apparently in sound health and good spirits, and at two o'clock the following morning had been found dead in bed, without one visible mark of violence upon his person. His Ron, who had returned home from a pleasure party at that hour, had entered his father's chamber to deposit the front door key there, and had made the hor rible discovery. This young man, a steady, reliable and devout church member and Sabbath school teacher, had then aroused the house, and had communioated the ill-tidings to the terror-stricken family. At the coroner's inquest I was pres ent, and there the son after repeating substantially what has been said above, called the attention of the jury to the following additional and important facts : that on entering the chamber he had found everything undisturbed and as usual, that the bed-clothes even were not rnmpled, and that the position of the deceased, as he lay, was so natural and easy that it was not until he had noticed the absence of the deep and regular breathing of the sleeper that he suspected, for an instant, that anything was wrong. 1 was not on the jury, but was there at the request of the family, in my offi cial capacity of murder-detective, and it is needless to say that I subjected the body and its surroundings to the closest scrutiny. I could discover nothing, however, that appeared in the least suspicious, or to warrant a sup position of foul play. The post-mortem examination failed equally to satisfy, and developed Bio indication of poison in the system; but one thing it did develop ; and that was, that up to the time of death the internal organs of the deceased had all been in a state of healthy and vigorous action. For once in my life i was at fault, and must confess that I did not know how to prooeed ; but still, for# all tlie absence of proof, and the seeming regu larity of things, I felt in me a deep mistrust that murder had been done in the premises and by no unskillful hand. Whilst I was deliberating how to act, the son came over and begun a conver sation. He talked on the all-absorbing topio of the moment, and was as ner vous, restless and agitated as man oould be. We were walking rapidly up and down the chamber where lay the oorpse, still fresh from the searching hands of the coroner's physician, and as we paused now and then to gaze in its pale, inanimate face, I remarked that my companion shook with a slight and well-defined tremor. I made -a mental note of this, but at the same time did not attach much importance to it, as I considered it but the natural effect M scenes through which the son so recently passed, and whose recollection was re freshed by these momentary views of the dead. I did not, of course, for a moment imagine that the man at my elbow was a patricide ; but a murder detective, from habit, is always on the alert, and as I had no clue whatever to follow in this matter, I was merely searching for one everywhere—that was all. We continued our walk about the room. T •. ■ - "This affair passes my comprehen sion," said L "And mine also," said the son. I was about taking my leave when a small piece of red rag on the floor, just under the edge of the bed, attracted my attention, and I stooped to pick it UP. * ' The Bon observed my motion, and said : i "I wonder how that got there? I have the rest of that article in my drawer—it belongs to me I" "Do you want the piece ?" 1' asked. "Not at all," he replied; but if you would like to have the remainder, I willget'it for you." •/" ' He left me without waiting for any reply, and quickly returned with the rest of the handkerchief. He handed 1t to me and said as he did so : "I am at a loss to conjecture who eould have torn that handkerchief, for I thought safe in my apartment when I went out early in the evening." ,1 put the piece he gave me with the other I already had, and took my leave. Onoe at home and in the solitude of mj chamber, 1 sat down at my table and, with my faoe buried in both hands, fell to thinking and reasoning. 1 thought of the scene .1 had just left, and oould not doubt that the verdict of the coroner's jury would be "death from causes unknown." I thought of the son and of his torn handkerchief, and I spread oat the latter before me on the table, and fitted it to the por tion I had found wet and limp under the bed of the deceased. Then I took the wet pieee in my fingers and felt and looked at it, Ijt did not seem to have been ateeped~in water, and tq£the touch it was just in the slightest way sticky. I farther remarked that it had a very faint white tinge iu spots, AS if BOOM kind of foam had recently been upon it, Just at that instant I caught sight of % paragraph in a daily paper lying in front of me, and meohanically read it. The paragraph was as follows : "A ghastly scientific discovery is re ported from Turin, where Professor Casturini, the celebrated oculist, has found a way of killing animals by forcing air into their eyes a few sec onds, and almest without causing pain. —Experiments were reoently made at the Royal Veterinary Sohool, and it is said that they have fnllv proVed the truth of the Professor s invention. Within the space of a few minutes four rabbits, three dogs and a goat were killed in this manner. The most re-, markable fact is that the operation'' leaves absolutely no outward trsoe." I started up instantly after having read this, and began rapidly to walk the room. 1 was flushed and agitated. Perhaps I had the key to the mystery I was searching to solve ! 4 "Gracious 1" I thought, "if this paragraph be true, might not the method of destruction be applied as fatally to man as to the inferior ani mals ?" I hurriedly returned to the house of death and rang the belL The son answered the summons in person. He looked not a little surprised at ' my sudden return. **What is the matter ?" he demanded. "Nothing," said I—l was quite 000 l and collected by this time—"l merely wish to make another examination of the chamber of the deceased." ' He led me to it at once. I again scrutinized the body, this time paying more attention to the face and head of the dead man. There was absolutely nothing to be seen there that had not been seen be fore. I then pressed open the mouth slightly with my fingers, and, as I did so, I felt, or fancied I felt, the same slight stickiness I had detected on the limp piece of handkerchief. I looked into the mouth, and nearly trembled •for joy to see there the olearly-defined white tinge of dried foam ! For a moment I oould hardly main tain myself, and my heart beat so loudly that I was almost afraid my companion would hear it and grow alarmed. However, I did control myself, and as soon as I could trust my voice, said : "Is there no way by whioh this house might be entered except by the first story?" "Oh, yes," returned the son, as com posedly as ever, "there is a door in my apartment opening on an old, unused portioo, but this has been locked and double-bolted all winter. This observation was just what I wanted, for it pointed out to me a way to obtain a view of this man's private room, and that, too, without exoiting the least suspicion. "Will you let me see that door ?" I asked. "With the greatest pleasure," said he ; "I have already examined it my self, and found it us secure as of old— but perhaps your more experienced eye may detect some sign there that has escaped me." I followed him, and without the slightest hesitation he led me to his bed-chamber. There was the door fastened as he had said, and I made a show of looking at it—but that was not what fascinated me and riveted my attention at once. The walls were full of shelves, and the shelves were crowded with philoso phical instruments. I left the portico door finally, and as I was going carelessly remarked : "Ton seem to take an interest in science ?" "Why, yes," said he, smiling, "I do, and I flatter myself that few men here or elsewhere have a larger or better collection of apparatus than I have." I had touched him on his particular vanity, and knew now that I might search unmolested, and not only that, but with his own proper aid, for the instrument of death. I turned back, as I spoke, and pioked up a pamphlet from the study-table in the center of the room. The book was written in the Italian language. I have some slight knowledge of the tongue of the modern opera, and I read on the title page that the work was on on the various modes of the destruction of animal life, and that it was by Cas turiui. And Casturini was the name of the Professor spoken of in the newspaper paragraph. I felt that I was wprking on the right track. I laid down the volume and gradually turned the conversation to the subject .of pneumatios, in the course of whioh I asked if my oompanion had Gastnrini's air-pump. He told me no, but that he had his air-syringe. ~ . I asked to look at it. For the first time the son turned on me a hurried glance of ala^m. But I managed to appear as if I sus pected nothing—ss if nothing more dangerous than love of science actuated me in my investigations. And my oompanion was satisfied, for he at ones produced the air-syringe. It was a strange instrument, in shape it was like an ordinary syringe, and such as is daily employed in medicine, only larger, perhaps twice as large as any of that kind I had ever seen. It was mounted on a stand of polished walnut, like in electric mrchine, and, indeed, looked like one—that is, s cylindrical one. It was furnished with a crank, by whioh it was worked, and had two large, funnel-shaped mouth pieces. These latter were not station- ary, but could be meved—brought nearer together or more widely sepa rated, as circumstancesTequired. This, then, was the instrument of death, and it petformed its dread work silently and surely and left no external trace. I touched it with a foeling akin to horror, and asked : "Has this no other use than to de prive animals of life f" "None," was the smiling response. "Csn you operate it ?" "Better than any I ever mot." 1 was standing facing this man as he made this boast. I laid my hand on his shoulder. He started and seemed not to know what to make of my oonduot. "Tour crime is discovered,, sir !" said I, sternly. "You are a patricide, and I arrest you for the murder of the man who lies in the other chamber !" His faoe turned fairlj purple with rage and fear and then grew inky black. He sat down in the chair without a word. Hia courage, and above all his incomparable audacity, had alto gether abandoned him at this terrible crisis I I spoke to him again and again several times, but could get no answer. Then I rang the bell and sent for the coroner's physician. He came, looked at the man still sit ting on the chair, speechless and black in the faoe, and shook his head. "This man has lost his reason !" were his fearful words. "What has caused it?" I told him, and showed him Castu rini'a air-syringe. We took our prisoner into custody and conveyed him to the police station. The ride somewhat restored him,"but. he was still altogether overwhelmed and crushed. We left him in a cell and went our various ways. In the mording I was the first to oall to see him. The officer in charge told mo he had been up the greater part of the night, and was then sleeping. I waited half an hour, and then, in company with the doctor, who had by that time arrived, went to the cell. The man was there on the bed, lying in his shirt and pantaloons, with his face downward, and motionless. The doctor touohed him—he was cold and atiff. The patricide was dead. By his aide lay a paper, crushed and rumpled, as if in hia last agonies he had endeavored to tear it up. I took it and read, written in lead pencil, the following: "The shrewdness of the detective has been too much for me. It was night when I did it, and I fanoied the means put it beyond reach of discovery. 1 was mistaken, and 1 pay the penalty of that mistake freely now. That doctor ia a shrewd practitioner. A man does not counterfeit madness with him with impunity. Had he been as wise in bis way as the detective was in hia, the law would not have been cheated of its prey. I had my reasons for the deed, fully as potent as those I hsve for this." Here followed the signsture of the suicide, traced in a full, bold hand. I turned to the phyaician and the offi cer who were with me, and had read the letter over my shoulder. I must confess that I think my faoe ahowed triumph—triumph at having auooeeded in tracking and taking a criminal ao adrbit and calculating—and possibly I had some good grodnd for being elated. I did not ask the family of the mur dered man for a reward, but 1 carried away the air-syringe, and I have, it to this dsy. 1 have made repeated expe riments with it since it came in my possession, and each succeeding one but oonvinoes me the more of its deadly and dangeroua character. There is another thing I must say before I close, and that is this : I have solved the mystery of that limp piece of handkerchief I found ,on the day 1 undertook the investigation of the affair I have just been speaking of : it was employed by the murderer to re press and keep back the alight foam that always flies from the mouth of the subject whenever submitted to the ac tion of the svringe. I look back upon this adventure now as one of the most importsnt events in my career, and I tske pride in telling it over and over again. It shows what science is oonneoted with the detection of crime, and it also shows from whst a slight link s massive ohain of conolu-. sive evidence may be forged. I ssy I look back to it with pride, and I can only hope that an intelligent public will hear and approve my recital ' —the story of the truxxowN DEATH. . . 1 Snlo So. Here is s domestic drama from Paria. A young girl was about to be married to s journeyman carpenter, whose suit was by no means agreeable to hsr. She had refused and protested against the match, but her father was inexora ble on the subject, and insisted on the marriage, though the mother would willingly hsve yielded. At length the ' bride-elect appeared resigned to her fate, snd the father, pointing ont the happy result of his firmness to his wife, triumphantly exclaimed, "I told yon so." Next dsy, however, the poor girl, having left s letter at home explaining the cause of her action, jumped off the Bridge of Austerlitx into the Seine. She was, however, saved, and carried home by two sailors. The father re tained home just as the dripping girl waa placed in safety beside the pstenjal health, when the mother, with perhaps more point than discretion, simply ob served, "I told you so." A Kemarknble Relic. The Pall Mall Gazette says : A bronze fork with two prongs, discov ered by Mr. George Smith in the mound of Konyunjik, supplies food for some reflection. If it really is a bona fide fork it is one of the most singular and remarkable'Telios of antiquity. That "fingers were made before forks" is a proverb the truth of whioh no one, we presume, is inolined to dispute. But we are apt to forget how very long the people of the west, at any rate, ware destitute of forks ; and if Mr. George Smith's fork is a fork, as he evidently supposes it to be, another and a very important addition will have been made to the claims of Asia to early superiority over Europe. Neither the Greeks nor the Romans knew anything of forks for eating, although that they had pitch forks from time immemorial ana did not take a hint from them speaks little for their analogical ingenuity. And, notwithstanding that forks were known as rare and 'exceptional in the middle ages, they were not used either by oarvers or eaters of meat even so late as the early part of the sixteenth oentury among the most advanoed in European nations. The Greeks had knives for carving. But when they fed themselves with solid food they did it with their fingers, whioh they after ward wiped on pieces of bread. When they took soup they used either a spoon or a bit of bread hollowed out. So likewise the Romans fed themselves with their fingers when tiioy ate solid food, and liquid food they took with a spoon {cochlear). They had no forka, although they cultivated oarving as an art with considerable assiduity. The carp tor, scissor or structor was a person guided by .rules, who performed his task to the "fe&und of music, and with appropriate gesticulation. In Wynkyn de worde's Soke of Keruynge too, published in 1513, the author tells the carver he must "Set never on fyshe, beest ne towle more than two fyngers and a thombe," clearly showing that forks were not in nse ; and adds, "Tour knife must bo fayre, and your handea must be olene, and passe not two fyn gera and a thombe npon your knyle." Yet the fork was employed for oertain pnrpoaes among our ancestors at leaat two centuries before this was written. One fork is mentioned in the wardrobe account of Edward I, for the year 1297, and Edward IPs favorite, Piers Gaves ton, had (Fosdera, year 1346) "Iroia furshesces l'argent pur mangier poires." Le Grand d'Aussy (Histoire de la Vie Privee des Francois," torn. 111, page says that forks are ennmeratedin an inventory of the jewels of Charles V ot Frmnoe tor 1870, and this Is the only instance he mentions during the middle ages. He also remarks, writing in 1872, that then the knife was oommonly employed to convey food to the mouth, "as it still is in England, when for that purpose the blades of knives are made broad and round at the end." So Mr. Thackeray's "Snob's" friend Marrowfat had ancient precedent at leaat, and somewhat modern example, aooording to Le Grand d'Aussy, to plead in ex cine of his memorable delinquency with the peas. The Menial Aliunde of* Primi tive Man. Comprehensions of the thoughts generated iu the primitive man by his converse with the surrounding world can Vie had only by looking at the surrounding world from his stand point. The accumulated knowledge and the mental habits slowly acquired during education must be suppressed, and we must divest ourselves of con ceptions which, partly by inheritance and partly by individual cnlture, have been rendered necessary. None can do this completely, and few can do it even partially. It needs but to observe what uutit methods are adopted by educa tors, to be convinced that even among the disciplined the power to form thoughts which are widely unlike their own is extremely small. When we see the juvenile mind plied with generali ties while it has yet none of the con crete facts to which they refer—jvhen we see mathematics introduced under the purely rational form, instead of. under the empirical form with which it should be commenced by the child, as it was commenced by the race—when we sec a subject so abstract as grammar put among the first instead Of among the last, and see it taught analytically instead of synthetically : we have ample evidence of the prevailing inability to , conceive the ideas of undeveloped mindfc. And, if, though they have been ! children themselves, men nod it hard to re-think the thoughts of the child, still harder must they find it to rethink the thoughts of the savage. I'o keep our automorphic interpretations is beyond our power. To look at things with the eyes of absolute ignorance, and observe how their attributes and actions originally grouped themselves in the mind, imply a self-suppression that is impracticable.*—[PopularScience Monthly. . y* f Tk« WsskPlsce. Home can never bs a thoroughly happy plaoe while there are so few tub» jects of common interest between man and woman. It is owing to this. IhM matrimonial engagements are entered into so rarely on the basis of any broad intellectual sympathy, such as might furnish some security for lasting affec tion, and ao often at the bidding of im pulses and fancies that do not outlive the bonej moon; and it is owing to the same cause that ao very laige a propor tion of the lives of most husbands sad wives is spent practically apart, with little or no knowledge on the part of either of the objeots or aims thst en gross the greater portion of the other's thought and energies... £ .. Fine business—The polios eourt judge's. • VARIETIES. Poor men and hens are obliged to scrateh to get along in this world. "Here's another dooghmeetio diffi culty," said a Brooklyn woman as the found her bread heavy. Josh Billings says that in the beds of many hotels "yon sleep some, bnt roll over a good deal." A hae been published called "Half-Hours with Inseots." The author was not a regular boarder. Switzerland has a cremation society. When the first meeting is held all the members will donbtlees be ready to go to Berne. -if - *•. ~»i-* •" "I am a broken man," sighed a dilap idated author. '/I should think so, for I ve seen you* pieoes," responded a bystander. An uncle left eleven silver spoons to his nephew in his will, adding, "He knows the xeasom I have not left him the whole dos^n." "What a contradictory thing a bar ometer is," said Spriggens. "How so? asked Wiggins. "Because the higher you take it the lower it gets." An Ohio man has been snatched from a drunkard's grave eighty-nine times, Sinoe tbe election he's been going on as if he wanted to be snatched some more. ; * ' %y "George, dear, don't you think it is rather extravagant ot yeft to eat butter with that delioions jam ?" "sq, love economical t Same pieoe of bread does for both !" "Oh ! I've loved before," said a De troit woman to her fourth husband, as she took a handlfnl of hair from his head because he objeoted to bans out the week's washing. There is a farm house in Loohgoin, Scotland, over the door pf which is an inscription bearing the date of 1178. The present oooupant of the farm is the 38th of his name that hps held tbe farm—the family having dwelt there for 88 generations—that is ever sipce .the Bth oentury. An English custom of "Afternoon Tea" has been adopted in Paris, and the hour flxed at five p. m. Tea is not served on a silver waiter by a servant, bnt a neat little table or etagere stands before each guest. Oh the top is a place for a cup, and under the first shelf is another for biscuits or sand wiches. A recent writer says that oorpnlency is not a disease. The founder of the English Ohuroh was a fat man, Lather was a corpulent; Napolean L, though his carriage was erect and soldierly, had muob adipose tissue about him; Byron was inclined to oorpulenoy, as were most of tbe literanr worthies of the Elisabeth era. So if oorpulenoy is a disease, it certainly has not a bad ef fect on the brain. Friction impedes the progress of the railway train, and yet it is only through friction that it makes any progress. This apparent paradox is explained when we remember that by reason of the frictions! "bite" of the driven upon the track they draw the brain. The bearings of the wheels upon the rails are a mere line where they come in contact, -iron and iron, yet thn slight and almost imperoeptible hold is suffi cient to move hundreds of tons dead weight with the speed of the wind. A very good old book teaohee us by Eatable, that the man who hid his dent in a napkin did not do well. How will those merchants —eeeed who hide their oapital, their business and themselves from all who do not, by mere chanoe, enter their stores t >ft is easy for a business man to speek out for himself in the newspaper; and by means of it he oan speak regularly, often, aad to the point, Wkfr do so m%ny of us hide our talents away in stead of increasing them to tea talents, which we aretahgbt to look upon as the inersase we should receive from our good gifts, if we pey them sufficient respect ana treat them properly. The Scientific American describes a strange fertiliser. At Stratford, Con necticut, where mosquitoes are as thick as fog, livee an ingenious Yankee, so they say—believe it who may—who puts the inseots to profitable usee. He hss invented s lsrge revolving scoop net, covered with laee, which is pat in motion by a wind-mill, water power or steam. The upper half moves the atmosphere, and at each rotation draws an immense number ot the "squitoes" down into the water, whsre they drown and sink to the bottom. Every revolution of the net draws in an ounoe of mosquitoes, or a ton fer thirty thousand tons of the machined The mosquitoes thas collected make a splendid manure for the land, worth forty-five dolbus* ton. r iu: . lathe days when rouge-et-nour flour ished at Baden Baden the Prussian of fieers were strictly forbidden te play. One ot them, however, dressed as a ci vilian, ventured to place 10 Ntpofrons on a color. The color came u twiee and the officer was just about to take in> the money wben-hb eft flail upon the TC«««g of Prussia, who was watching the game with interest. In his fright, the officer did notdare to remove his The play oontinuhd sad the ssne oolor came up a third, a fourth, a fifth ttoae, and 8,810 franes wen added to his pile, bui the winner stood motionless, erect as if on parade, expecting thanext instant to see aH yi "winnings Wiped out. The Xing putan* sad to Id* HttMW J* •WW*** and saying in^ your luck oannot oontinue so favora ble." NO. 8.