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DAJMBURY, N. C., THURSDAY. JANUARY 13. 1881.
THk LOXu AGO.
1 sit. to night, by the livr. Jack,
And lisl 10 its musical flow ;
And n>y tl drill bai kon memory's tide
To Ihe riu) 8 of lone a«o.
j Beautilul dajs the) seenifd to us then,
For our hearts Hero li>rlit with love ;
j Love which we thought in that summer time
Would he Hue as the Heaven above.
But years have collie und gone, dear Jack,
And time has laid them a nut ;
But o:tentliiis their sceptres, dear,
( tme lack in the twilight giay.
And a voice from the "uiigi.t buve been,"
• whispers low,
Along ihe world's dusty highway,
Of a blis>tul peace iu store lor us,
A return of ttiat golden May.
Ah I many heaits have been parted. Jack,
And, tho' broken, taiat calmly ou ;
I Aud we, too, can live ou. lives apart,
_ Till tLe losy breaking of dawn,
k UteVlo. ,b**>*ii in the twlUgbt alone,
And list to the river's flow,
: My lie irt keeps time, with an .tchiug throb,
To tbe echoes 0! loug ago.
Elementary Science Notes.
No. 4
COMBUS'IION.
In my lust article I considered the
theory, and exp niued some of the phen
ouienu, ul ordinary coutbustion I pro
p«-se 111 this in Kpeak nf the enerey or
force develop, d In cnuibus'ioti, more us
p cialh a.- man.fisted in the burning nr
cxpl sum ni gu puwder und nitr 1 gly
cerine
Th- reader will reci>jli-ct lh#t in the
burn tig ul ordiiuir) luel the oxygen ( f
the air unites with 1 lie h.drogep and car
b.ui ot the body binned; ibat the union
nl the oxygen mlh tbe l ydrogen forms
water, and tLe "Xvyon with the carbon
toruiH carb in- di tide—formerly called
carb -nle aeid 'I he oh- uneal combina
'ion i»l the "Aygeii Willi tie combustible
developes heat and 1 lit Heat is sup
ponod to be cati»ed by the inconceivably
i-ipid vibratory inotion of tbe molecules
composing 'be heated body— this motion
bting coiivey. d ..r trai smilted through
or by an ethereal medium that is sup
posed to pervade spue*, und *V(,u to pen
e'rutu solid bodies. When this molecu
lar motion is iuim eased to a certain de
gree— iu oihei words wI en the body is
tieated to 1 liat degree—ll btcome'i incaii
descent.
The energy or force exerted by hested
air or gas or sieaui uuuer pressure is
due to the Unitnm ol tha n.«.1»~..i.« k...
tog wi/aiui.l 1 lie sides ol the enclosure In
their struggle lo' oxpaosion for larger
space in which to uiova or vibrate.
In pure oxyge.i gas, any combustible
will burn with much more intensity and
far greater brilliancy than io air, simply
bcruuiM 1 'he -upply nt oxygen is greater ;
and it the nxygen were condensed under
presxuie. the intensiiy of the combustion
would be s'ill turiher incressed. If oxy
gen could by any means be Condensed
into a solid, and then pulverized and
mixi d intiuia ely with powdered carbon,
the uniim as soon as beat was applied
would he ulmcst inniaiitaue'ius, causing
au explnsioo
GUNPOWDER
Although we oannui reduce pure oxy
gen to the. Solid siate we can. to a de"
grer reach the aaai- result by the use o'
a solid cornp >und, into which oxygen
enter* largely as a oompooeot, and which
readily yields a portion ol it to the
stronger attraction of oatbon Such a
subdsnce is niire or saltpetre (p .lassie
nitrate) ; and, as is well known, this sub
stance la used wiih charcoal aud sulphur
to make gunpowder—the sulphur being
added pa'tly to facilitate the kindling of
the charuoal, and partly to aid in the
decomposition ot the nitre by uniting
with the potassium, thus sa'tiog the
oxygen free.
In the manufacture of gunpowder the
material, in aboui thu proportion of 75
carta of nitre to 15 of charcoal and 10
of saiphur. are reduced to a fine powder,
then moistened with water and thorough
ly uiixed, alter which by a heavy pre*
sure, the mixture or paste is reduced lo
a hard cake This is btoken or grouod,
and graded, by passing it through sieves,
into grains of siies, adapted to different
use*. Each grain of gunpowder is com
posed of an indefinite nnmb*r of very
minute particle* or maasee of charcoal,
io eontaol with, or in close proximity to,
a atill greater number of equally small
partiole* of oitre; *9 that, wbea heat is
applied, every atom of oharooal seizes or
uoites with two stoma of the oxygen
front tbe nitre, forming carbonic dioxid*
gas, whieh is the principal product.
Nitrogsu is also set free, and some other
garaes are formed all which expaod lo
three hundred times the bulk of the
gunpowder In faot the expsosion is
greater than this, owing to the large
quantity of beat developed by the che
mical reaction.
When tha powder ia burned io a con
fined space, great pressure i* exerted in
all directions, and the weakest point must
give way—if in a gun, ihe ball ia forced
out with great velocity.
NITRO GLYCERIN!.
Tbi* powerful agent haa become
known only within a few yesr*. When
pure it very oloaely resembles the well
known artiole glycerine, and 1* mad* by
the action of nitric aoid on this substance
A molecule of, uitro glyoeriae contains
3 atom* of oarboo, 6 atom* of hydrogen,
9 II kl.- 11l UX}gl'll, Ulid 3 Hl'.Ui- ul ull
rogeu. Wtien exploded, the reaction
] anil the passes formed nr.* ikuci. the
i •anil*.»« in the explosion i»t gu- jt-rndtfi j
but, as hi well lii.h*ii, rite t>ii«; )>y or
force exeited Is bevcial hundred nines
trtiitrr than t hut exeited t»\ gunpowder.
Wluie gunpowder, t.y exp , s.,n in
crea»e* us t.uik ml) about ihiee nullified
times, nitio.glyoeriue iticilase* lutly mt.e
hundred times j but a mtii'h more iui
priuui nuuse I r the increased . fl'sct, is
the rapidity ul the ohutulcul aetmn lu
gunp wder, however small th« grain of
I'D.iroiml, i utili grain contains to ..usands
uud probably millions i I caibon atoms,
and the atoms on the Murine? of each
grain must be burned before thoie lu the
interior oan be readied by the oxygeu
aiuuie which uiu-l corno from thu ui de
cules of tiftre that constitute ll.e separate
giains ol that material In uitro K!>•-
oertne, the oxygen and curbnu atoms aie
iu tbe came molecule, ho that, wlisu ex
ploded, the reaction is essentially install
| la neons
The time it takes to burn a compact
mass of gunpowder. Converting it into
gasses occupying space iqual to three
hundred times it» original bulk, is hardly
appreciable, but it is not less than oni
hundred times as long as is necessary to
change ihe same quantity of nttro gly
cerine into nine hundred times its nrigi
-0 > I bulk
The all but inMant&neous exertion of
so tremendous an energy, make* this ma
teria! an invaluable agent in blasting aud
iu the construction ol torpedoes, but, lor
the sauie reason, it is of no use whatever
as a projectile force. No gun could with
stand the (.train of a single charge.
dynamite and quali.^e
As it is inc mvement to handle liquid '
uitro-g'ycorme, it is now usual to mix it
with some inert, powder ; and
to such minutes the above names have
been applied.
An experiment made at the Torpedo
S»a'ion, Newport, deseribed as IOIIOWS,
by Prol Cooke, ol Harvard Univerri'y,
strikingly illuatratss the effect ol an ex
plosion of nitro glycerine :
"A ounnister holding less than a pound
01 dynamite, and only a lew ounces ol
nitro glycerine, was placed on the t pol
a large boulder rock, weighing two or
three tons. 1 repeat, this liu can wa6
simply laid on the lop ol tha boulder, j
glycerine was then exploded by an ap
propriate fuse tired from a distance by
eleotriaity The report was not louder
than from a heavy tun ; but the rock on
which the caonister lay, was broken into
a thou-and fragments "
It is a settled principle in chemical
science that the burning or Olidatiou of
a given quantity of any combustible
deveh'pes the same amount of energy,
whether the action be slow, as iu ordinary
combustion, or ueurly instantaneous as
in tbe explosion of nitro-glyceriue If
the energy developed by the couibu«tion
ol one cubin foot of caunel coal cou d all
be utilixed, it would Do sufficient to raise
3,269 tons one hundred leet But so
lar, no means have been devised by
which more than one-twentieth of the
energy developed by combustion can be
converted into mechanical force
Whence came that immense latent
power stored up in the inexhaustible coal
measure*, in nature's rrsorvoirs ol
petroleum, iu tbe interminable fortats
and other combustibles, in the depths of
the earth and upon its surface I* As
every effect must bave had an adequate
cause, so every latent force is only
conserved energy, which, in some form,
must have existed since time began
The sun is the great source ol every
latent energy, as well as of every active
lorce on the earth Ilis rays stimulate
tbe germs and cause the growth of the
entire vegetable king !um, and from such
growth the coal fields were formed and
the sarth was being prepared for the
home first, of the lower forms ol animal
life and lastly, for man, milliouH ol ages
priot to his advent on the planet The
rivers and streams that tui'n the wheels
of industry huve been lilted from the
ocean, and b trne to the mouotlio
heights by the energy of his beams.
The winds that fill tbe sails, and waft Ihe
commerce of thu world Iroui oootiueot to
ooutinent, are moved by hi* potency
As by his power tbe fuels of the earth
were formed, so tho 'products ol
combustion are, by tbe tame power,
oonverled iuto vegetable growth, agaiu,
perhaps, to pass through the same or a
similar process Thus, by the sun's
gentle, but all pervading influence, lost
energy i* constantly being restored, and
matter, in an endless oyoleof changes, i*
ever undergoing transformation piepara
tory to new uses in nature's economy
P. W. S, in South and ttett
And Then She Wouldn't Co.
Oh, the perversity of women 1 Here
M one oP the sex st Eureka Springs,
Alabama, who attempt* to elope, bu> is
detected by her husband. Now what
follows J Why, in the kindness of his ;
heart be offer* to pay the expenses of j
her intended j >urney. And she T She
won't go As we said io the beginning,
Oh, the perversity of women I—Button
Truwcript. |
South and the Lord's Prayer.
W hen the elder HOO I 1 was residing in
Baltimore a pious, urbane old gentleman
of thai ci'y, hearing of his wondcifol
power ol elooution, one day invited l:iui
1 to dinner, although always deprecating
tho stage and theatrical performances.
A large company sat down at the table,
and MI returning to the drawing room
j one ol them asked Booth, as a special
Uvor to them all, to repeat the Lord's
| Prayer He signified his willingness to
gratity tbim, and all eyes were fixed
j upon him. He slowly and reverently
1 arose from his chair, tieuibling wiih the
: burden ot two gieat conceptions |Jo
I bad lo reahxe tiie character, attributes
| aud presence of the Almighty lieing he
wo* x* address He, was to truticforia
! himsSf iuto a poor, sinning, st>iuib)ing,
■ benighted, needy supplicant, offering
1 homage, asking biesd pardon, light uud
guidauce. Siiy9 ouc of the compmy
who WHS present : "It was wonderlu)
to watch the play of emotions that
convulsed his couriteuauce. He became
; deadly pale, aud his eyes, turned
1 tumbling upward, were wet wi:h tears
I A* yet he had not spoken. The silence '
j omld be felt ; it had become absolutely
painful, until at last the *puli was
broken, as il by an electric shock as his
rich-toned voice syllabled forth, Our
Father which art in heaven,' etc., wiih
a path.)* and fervid solemnity which I
thrilled all hearts. He finished ; the
silence continued; not a voice w«s
heard, nor a in use It; moved, in this '
wrapt audience, until froui a remote
corner ol tbe room, a subdued sob was ;
heard, an 1 the old geutleman (the host) :
stepped forward with streaming eyes j
und tottering frame, and seizad Booth
by the hand. 'Sir,' said he, iu brokeu
accents, you have afforded me a pltasuie
lor which my whole future life will
leel grateful. 1 am an old man, and i
day, Iroui boyhood to the 1
present time, I have repeated the ,
Lords I'rayer; but I never heard it
before, never ! 'You are right,' replied
Booth, 'to read that prayei as it should
be read, caused me the severest study
nod labor for thirty years, and I am lar
Iroui satisfied with uiy rendering of
that wouderful production. Nut on*
person io ten thoosand comprehends
how much beauty, tenderness and
grandeur can be condensed in a
slittfciewtly illustrate* the truth of the
Bible, aud stamps upon it the seal ol
divinity "
Jerusalem To-Day.
Jerusalem is looking up. The streets
are to be lighted with gas und a horse car
company is going to ruo a lioe of
' bob-tails" to tbe top of the Mount of 1
0 ivos There will be some pretty steep
grades on this route, uohss it is laid out j
wiih a long detour either 10 the north or :
south Extra two horses must be used,
or else some if the passeogers will have {
lu gel out and push. On the down :
grades the vehiole* will be in dang r of
similar disasters to those which receotly
occurred in Jersey City and en Stateo
Island. In one ot these a car came
dowu on a run, and in the oiher the
vehicle tumbled over tiom a precipice
inloa\aleot woes below. The spectacle
may soon be presented of a car rolling
wheels-over head down the steep slope
from the graveyard east of lbs city wall
iuto th* Valley of the Kidroo, the driver
aud tbe pasaengers vainly luuning after
it with a view to putting on the brakes.
The horses in that section are evtn worse
looking than any whioii serve as a
motive power for Btreel cars iu this
couutiy The sound of a hetl punch in
the highways of rusty old Jctusjlem
will be as greut a novelty as a party ol
householders enjoying their lei-ore ly
lounging in the light of a st eel lamp
The world move*, and eveo slow i
Jerusalem must b*stir herself. Solomon
had many ooatly novelties to show the
Queen uf Sbeba, but in all his stables
there was nothing like a street car.
Cure for Diphtheria.
Tbe Oold*boro Messenger says we are
indebted trfTdr W F. Atkinson, of this
ei unty, lor the following sur* aud speedy
remedy for diphtheria : Use as a wash
or gargle, tbe 'ollowiog: J gloss ot
water, \ glass vinegar, 2 teaspooosful
of saltpetre, 2 teaspoonsful of alum, 2
teaspoonslul of common salt. Then :
apply a poultice to tbe throat rntde of '
(jilead bud* Beat the buds and boil
them until the water become* yellow,
then take out tbe buds, put in Urd and
stew or simper tbe water out aud then
grease the t roat well and bind the
buds to the throat, also take inwardly a j
teaspoooful of the grease three or four |
times a day. Make and apply a new ;
poultice avery day Mr. Atkinson has
used the remedy with success on five of
his family, aua io twelve other cases in
hi* neighborhood.
"Doctor, my daughter seems to be go
ing blind and she'* just getting ready
fur her wedding, 100 1 Oh, dear me,
what is to be done 1" "Let her go right
on wiih the wedding, madam, by all
mean*. If anything oan of en her eye*
marriage will,"
Calling the Doctor.
A certain Wheeling doctor, living on
! street, has a speaking-tube leading
trom tbe front door of his residence to
| his sleeping apartment. Last week,
I when a dark night had got half through
j it* work, a young man stole off to the
I mouth piece of this innojent trumpet
and blew a blast in it that made the
whisile at the other end sound liku a
len pound ealiope ruo by a ]SO foot
boiler.
The d otor sprang frmu his couch and
alighted with one foot on lop of a tin
blacking box lid that was carelessly lying
00 the carpet.
n? didn't rnuke as much noise as the
whistle, though
Gaining the end of tho tnhs at lust ho
bent back the whistle and called out in
u tone of voice Hiat would not have led
oue to ihe impression that he had been
eating balmy caramels, "Who's there ?"
"Doctor, do yuu kuow Mis 1'odrot?"
came up through the pipe.
"Yes, v.hat's the uiaiter with her !"
"Oh, nnthiii', she's all right Bui
three doors above her lives Mrs. Gilfrey,
you know !"
"Yes. I know her too Are any ol
thu children s;ok ?"
"N it ai ali. Tiivy are sound as frozen
turnips I only wauled to s.>e if you
knew your buMueßs, aud kept posled iu
the neigh.lorhood "
This polim information smarted the
doctor w .rse th.n his cut heel, but he
laughed "ha, ba" down the pipe and
said : "Talk some more, and see it I
oan't recognizu your voice."
What that talk was which came up
the pipe wiil probably never he known,
for the doctor slipped awty and in al j
most a second's time had a large giadu- j
ating glass filled wiih a mixture ot ink !
and carbolic acid He approached the
pipe with a funnel made of a sheet of
writing paper, and as some disconnected
woras came up he emptied the content* ;
of the glass in the tube, and then blew
in it with ull the force of hi* two horse
lung power
He then flew to the window and softly
throw up the sash. Some one on the ;
curb below was ulkiog worse thao Jim
Sweeney does when he is asked his opin
ion ot Lewis Baker. The «ioctor enjoy j
ed this for a moment, and crying out, J
' Call again vou funny dog, you." agaio 1
TLe Mad Poet.
Such was the name given to McD >nald
Clarke, a wild eccentric writer of verses
who iued 111 the city nl New York souie j
thirty ye rs ago He had a talent lor !
imprnvisatii 11, nhiuh he used to celebrate
ihe charms ol those persuns of wimni ,
li on lime to time, he beoame enamoured. !
A volume ol his poems, published by
subscription, contains in the preface ,
these touching paragraphs :
'T won't, pester folks with apologies '
Here's a rough handful of Hovers—a,
litlio dirt about the roots—a tear'll wash
it off!
"Il tho life of my poetry is whnle*iiine, |
'twill breathe alter the wi d spiut, that j
inspired il hu-i bee sobered al the terrible 1
tribunal ol eternity, and tho weak hand !
that traced it long wasted to u»hes."
In one ot these wild moods which
frequently came upon him, when ihe ]
will to be sublime was not sustained j
by the strength he wr.te the** lines on j
Washington :
"Eternity—give him elbowroom :
A spirit like his is large :
Earth—lence with artillery nis to nb,
And fire a double charge
To the memory of America's greatest man :
Match htm, posterity, if you cau."
He was a regular attendant on Sunday
church service, and iu une ot his lucid
moods wrote this louder, simple tribute
to the Sabbath :
"I feel the happier all the week,
It my loot bus pressed the sacred aisle,
Tbe pillow seems softer to my cheek :
I sink to slumber with a suiile :
With sinlul passious cease to fi-bt,
Aad sweetly dream on Sunday nigbt."
He died in the luuatio asylum on
Blackwrll'a Island, aud was buried in
Greenwood Cemetery. Speaking of the
arrangements he desired made lor his
tunural he said :
"I hope tho ohildren will come 1
waul to ba buried by the s'd* of childreu.
Four things 1 am sure there will be iu
heaven—music, flowers, pure air and
plenty of little children."
Tho mania for liigh-prioed Jerseys,
it appears, is on the increase As high
as £5,000 hug reocntly been paid for a
single imported animal.
Over 1,110 000 hog* were received at
Chicago, 111, during November, a larger
number than was ever received in one
month at any market.
You can keep a bee away from you by
the use of tobacco smoke, but a bee is
always ia *uoh a confounded hurry that
he gets io his work before you cau light
your i%ar. •
There's one thin*, boys, thM you must shur,
li you wouid win you» suit:
We kuoW, t;ir we've tmn there ourselves
II ia the old mau's 0001.
JST'MIiLR 31.
Official Advertising.
When the Legislature meets the subject
ol requiring the advertisement of legal
notices will be brought up for action.,
It is uolorruuato that whatever the
newspapers uiay say oil the subject will
bo —by souie persona—attributed to a
seltisn motive. Doubtlsa did »be law
ciinipel the publicatioo of such
advertisements, tbe papers would bo
ujuterially benefited; but, it ia not in
that view that the matter should be
regarded At all eventa, the papers
would give lull consideration for the
benefits resulting to them. The present
system of puttiug up notices at croas roads
answers no good purpose. In these
days people look to the papers for notices,
and those seeking suel» information
always know where to find it.
It a merchant has anything (o sell, ho
advertises it, aud if publicity is to be
given to any matter, the columns of the
newspaper affirds the best ohannel to
bring it belore tbe public. Formerly,
before the of newspapers, as the
I b..-st device praolicable, resort was had vu
[ the cross roads notices, but the time for
| that has now passed One insertion in
a newt,paper is worth a hundred such
i notices It iii said that designing persons
j often take an unfair advantage and effect
j sales of property alter strictly legal
Duties, but without giving to the publio
any intimation that the intended sale is
to be nad 1 Here are certainly evils to
be corrected, and the best way to correct
them is to utilize the ordinary means
adopted in like cases by the business
n.en of every community We cordially
endorse the proposed change, and trust
(hat the Legislature will take intelligent
action on the matter and recognize that
the world uiovcs, and with it North
Carolina.— Ncwx Observer
Ignorance a Cause of Disease.
The more thoroughly the causes of
disease are understood, the more and
more they are found traceable to a
vitiation of h>gienic laws. II the
ravages ot cholera, or yellow lever aud
typhoid may be contro l d in a great
measure bj toe obs rvance of suoh laws,
why uiay uot scarlet lever, measles and
whooping cough be prevented, or very
u.uch limited? The prevailing sentiment
that ail children must necessarily have
f rltauuco
in the principles ot hygiene The fact
is already well established that the
spread and violeuce ol scarlet fever, by
isolation uieuiilinrss and ventilation, are
very much mod tied, and, in some
instances, entirely prevented. We
believe the time will come when scarlet
fever measles aud whooping cough,
which now distroy such multitudes of
children, will become, in a measure,
things of the past. It is not only tbe
great aui"unt ot sickness and mortality
occasioned direo:ly by hose diseases, but
the impaired constitutions and other
complaints consequent upon them, lhat
may a'so be prevented When the
community realizes fully that the means
i f preserving health, especially in early
life, aie placed, in a great measure, io
its own hnds, a fir higher estimate will
be placed up .u the value of human life,
and the responsibili'y for its preservation
will be found to depend, in a great
measure, upon huuiau efl its— Chicago
Ledger
Fertilising a Large Farm.
W J. Fowler writes truly in an ex"-
obnngs as follows : That the fertility of
good laud uay be maintained by the
use of clover alone, is shown by the ex
perience of hundreds of Western New
York farmers I know pieces of laud
that have never bad manure. Alter
nate wheat and clover has been the
rotati in ever siuce the original timber
was cut off The clover each altercate
year has been plowed under, and nothing
but gypsutn, at tbe rale of one hundred
pounds per acre per year, has ever been
applied. This liiud is still in good con
dition , not quite equal to the fields near
tbe barnyaid, and which have had less
clover but more uiauure, but tolerably
sure for twenty to twenty five bushels
of wheat per acre The lack in such
land is more apt to be phosphate of liuie,
and a dressing of superphosphate ap
plied with ths wheat at seeding will
cheaply and surely remedy tbis. By
combining winter stock feeding with
occasional plowing under of green clover
for manure. Ido not doubt that the
fertility of large farms may as surely be
kept upas it the farms were smaller. Ia
any event, where clover is grown there
must always be tho roots in the soil to
decay, and ihi* will prevent very rapid
deterioration of fertility. 80 much
always dspeuds on keeping soil fer
tile, that commercial manures which on
trial prove profitable should always be
used.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina, is
reported as talking a* follows to a news
paper correspondent: "1 tell you, sir,"
said he, "it is no longer a question of
politico with us. We simply bave one
proposition staring us in the lac*, and it
1; well that the people of the North
should uoderstaud it. \Ve are resolved
that the illiterate lower classes of aor
Statu shall not 1 ale "