Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-11-01
POPULAR SCIENCE.


India and South Africa.
There nrc 1900 central electric liphf
Citations in various parts of the country.
The important scientific meetings in
Paris this year will number at least
seventy.
n scientist has discovered tho adyan.
tagc of u dark skin as veil against tho
heat in hot climates.
The Webster process for the treatment
of sewage 10y electricity is about being
Experimental with in the Midway River,
/ England.
In the steamer City OF New York there
are eighteen electric lamp circuits, with
total of seven and one half miles Of wire
and M lamps.
The Danish Government is taking tho
lead i'll matters relating to establishing an
electrical connection with light ships and
isolated lighthouses.
The large equatorial instrument in tho
new observatory at Berlin il over sixteen
feet i'll length and has 81 lens about twelve
and II half inches in diameter.
By the new welding process, in which
electricity is used, the rails of street or
steam railways can be welded together, it
is said, after being placed in position.
Variations in The downfall of snow have
from recent observations in the llinalya
Mountains been found to exercise an
important influence ON the monsoon rains
If Upper India.
Experiments in the comprcssibility Of
sugar have brought about the conclusion
that sugar III solution increases the in.
tcrnnl pressure, but not to the same OK
tcnl that common silt does.
| The chances for loss of life i'm rnilroad
accidents i'll this country AFRO one person
killed for every 10000, 900 carried. Sta
'iS'ic'nns claim that more people are killed
every year Ivy falling oui Of windows than
Mere are in railroad accidents.
a yellow pigment, which is found in
lis purcSt form in the common English
birthstone butterfly, can hc obj incd from
the wings l'y simple treatment, with hot
water, somewhat less than n niilligram of
pigment being yielded 10y each insect.
Tho relation Of rising To falling ha.
romricr with rain points to the concu-
Sions that nj Philadelphia the amount of
rain which falls while the barometer il
descending is nearly three times US great
rs that which falls while the barometer ia
Using.
Some twenty years ago, Herr Fnlb, mn
Austrian scientist, first suggested the DOS.
tihility that the moon mny net upon the
great ocean of molten matter beneath the
earth crust exactly rs il acts in pruluc-
| ing the tides OC the eternal ocean of
water.
IL will cost $1,000 10 purchase the
norscs necessary TO run foot ear 12O
miles "a day. Whereas the cost of II
storage battery for IA similar amount of
work is $1,000. And tho hitter can DO
maintained for about one half the cost of
/ keeping tho horses
A MIR. Bolton in recent visits to Egypt
md Mount Sinai measured, the maximum
angle ut which dry sand will lic at rest,
nnd found il To be from thirly-onc 10
thiriy-two degrees; higher than this il
| will move down the slope. This does not
1 accord with the well known formula in
| text books.
Seventy six species of golden rod
(sol'lngo) are described in Professor
Gray's Worth american FEDm Tho
geographical area Of distribution extends
from Labrador and Iludson's Bay To
Florida and Mexico, ind from tho
Atlantic 10 the Pacific. Every State haa
one or mnny species.
Tho probable average ratio OF deaf
muics to the population at large, is ona
10 1900, and this would give about II
million deaf mulcs in The world, md yet
lin the United States nj lcaS) the deaf
lcSma the smallest element of the dcrcc-
tive classes, including under this term tho
blind, idioiic and insane.
The San Diego Cal, Union says: A
scientific gentleman, who has Travelled cx-
tcnsivcly in Europe and other countries,
while on II recent visit here examined the
kclp which is so abundant along the sea-
shore near San Diego and pronounced il
rich in iodine, being Of the same chnrnc-
fer rs that found ON the coast of tho
Mediterranean, from which most of thu
iodinc Of commerce is manufactured