West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-01-03
sCIENrIrIc ANp INDUSTRIAL.

Science now claims that every atom
aas a little soul. .
Turkey pointer feathers arc Icing used :
n the manufacture Of horsc-whips.
The use OF compressed coal, manu-
iactured from dust or slack, is rapidly
Increasing.
An Tnel,sh physician claims that
holding the b; cath will overcome tho
worst case OF insopnia.
There are twenty-one cotton mills in
Japan. The number having been more
lhsn doubled during the past two years
in all plants where the sexes are In
separate flowers there is great variation
i'm individuals. in the direction Of fer
tility aud sterility.
IL is said that the inventor Edison is
hard at work Gu his m~icrophoue, an in
v~entiOn intended TO In Tease sounds so
that they can be heard a greater distance.
Senior Piediahite, an electrician Of
Bogota, has pateated a telegraphic de-
vice which works without batteries He
claims that il VIII revolutionize teleg-
rashy.
An India rubber horseshoe, consi5
ing Of a rubber bottom fitting over
utOuUu lINR uuh nOOls WAAh ~ PicJSNNt
rim. is n recent invention for which il
portant advantages are claimed.
Although Leudenfeld's discovery of .
nervous system in sponges has been ds-
putcd, he has recently described the
nervous system of additional species;
showing that the nerves originate in the
middle germ-laycr of the animal.
The tedious work Of removing bould-
- - fArAak
from the bed of the Thames River,
England, still goes on. 1t began seven
wears ago. At last accounts 800 trees
and 1890 bouIders had been taken out.
The latter varied in weight from one to
four tons.
The magnitude Of the tin plate indus
try of England is shown by the fact that
during the nine months ending with
September the expectation of the same
amounted to sci, 27S, go, which is q
larger value than that OF any other iron
or steel product exported from hal coun-
try during the same time.
The moving of q chimney has been
successfully &C, omplished. In Bruins.
wick, Me, a seventy-eight foot chimney
was moved twenty feet on creased
planks. 1t weighed about 100 tons. In
side Of nine hours it was q gain at work
in its new position, receiving the pro-
ducts OF combustion from the fires.
In the Medical C0Una l or DR.. William
Ovens presents a long article on ely
drophobia a Disease olthe Imagination"
lie cites q large number of cases to es-
tahlish his position. and concludes with
the statement: Al I'm to day thoroughly
skeptical on the subject of hydropnobia
in man or any animal which perspires
from the surface Of the body"
j.. Woody Boynton, of Portland, Me-,
has invented a bicycle locomotive"
which is expected TO travel 200 miles an
hour. Under the middle of the boiler il
one giant, steel tired driving-whecl. IL
is eight feet in diameter, and was cast al
the Portland Company's foundry last
summer. The tire is deeply grooved, and
on either side of the great driving wheel
is n crank, TO take the place of the
treadles of a common bicycle.
a c%onsumptive slnitarium, on n novel
plan, is TO be established Mt Rein;c&en.
dorf. n village near Berlin. A large,
cylindrical building will be occupied in
the upper part by the patients, while
the ground floor viii be given up to the
accommodation of large numbers OF
mich cows. the exhalations from which
will be conducted to the apartments
above. AS o%ciation with certain ANIMAL
is supposed to have a beneficial effect.