West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-01-10
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A fund Of 81, 600, 900 has been left b.
an English brewer for advancing econo
omic and sanitary science.
A Frenchman has invented a Ike,
which simplilies and renders lasting tia
tuning OF Stringed instruments.
A petroleum motor that will make M
teen miles an hour and cost 81 per day
TO run is being tested IN Chicago.
The watch manufacturers all over tn,
United States arc crowded with work,
and competition is narrowing margins.
Psychologists have established the fac,
that the masculine heart weights more
and is larger than that possessed by the
fair sex.
The Popuiar Silence Monthly says that
no flying machine which will fly can ever
be constructed until gravity IS turned
wrong side up.
A document enclosed in a bottle was
dropped in the sea in March, 1886, by
the Prince of Monaco, TO test the cur.
rents. 1t has just been washed ashore
at Orkney.
An envelope has been invented which
Is tinted in such n manner as TO turn
black, blue and red If an attempt is made
10 open it by wetting or exposing to
steam. Damp weather does not afTectit.
At Bend 60, in the colony of Victoria,
New South Wales, gold is now being
procured at a depth Of 2400 feet from
the surface. This is the greatest depth to
which the gold seekers OF the antipodes
have so far penetrated.
Corn is the sou: ce Of nearly all the
starch consumed i'm the United States.
In other countries starch is made from
potatoes, wheat, rice and a variety of
other materials. Maine produces a great
deal Of starch from potatoes.
An electric current observed on a tcle.
phone line running from B~ridgewater,
Nova Scotia. to the mines thirty miles
away, Is supposed to be produced 10y a
natural battery" formed by deposits
OF copper, silver, lead and iron ore in the
vicinity OF the gold mine.
The interesting ard important dis.
coveFy has beer made that the lilamcnts
Of incandescent lamps soon break when
used near moving belts or other sources
of frictional electricity. The life of
such lamps may be greatly increased by
co ering them with wire netting con
ncctcd with the earth.
Experiments by NJ. G.. Cow indicate
that ordinary sunlight does not give us
the true co,ors of lo1ie3. These can
only be shown by a light combining all
the visible colored rays, and giving a
complete continuous spectrum. The
spectrum of sunlight is interrupted by
bright and dark bands.
Concerning the habit of coughing in
church, Tho London Lracet says: SIT
represents TO a large extent avoidable
evils, bred OF habit and thoughtless
imitation, and their very desirable re
ductlon is therefore by o means hope
less. Even where n basis of disease
underlies the explosion a little sclf-con-
troll could usually do something to lessen
its force or its frequency"
A Swedish scientist claims to have
discovered the secret Of petrifying wood
by artificial process. lie thinks it will
be possible ere long TO construct ediices
OF God and convert them into stone.
As 1t takes three months aud costs about
S25 TO petrify a block of wood of the
Dimensions Of one cubic inch, it will
probably be some time before his pre-, ess
will he generally adopted.
Old as is the theory that trees promote
regularity and plentitudc of rainfall, and
generally accepted as though an axiom
Pm natural philosophy, it is being vigor-
ousiy attacked, says the Saqitary Acrs.
The trouble has teen that only facts
favorable to this hypothesis have been
available. Now the result of impartial
invest CATION seems TO show that cause
and effect have been badly mixed.