Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-16
POPULAR SCIENCE.

fOTthtR SCIENCE.
Salt Lake, Utah, has lost nine per
ccnt. OF its saltness in the last five
years.
Fire clay is composed mainly of alu-
NINA (clay), siiicic acid (combinedl, and
quartz sand.
An electr. system of signaling trains
is to be adopted Oh the Union Pacific and
c. b. Il q. lines.
One Of the growing industries of San
Diego County, Cal, is the manufacture
of asbestos goods.
Edison's phonograph is ''the lion of
the hour i'll French scientific circles.
Many curious experiments are being made
with it.
Iron shafts have been known to do
duty Tor quarter of century, doing
good service long after the assure began
to yield
The new second-class English cruisers
are to be either of steel alone or steel
shea.hed with wood and coppered, and
their engines arc to dcvclop 9OOO horse
power.
Major Powell states that material
has been gathered showing seventy
three different stocks of languages and
oo0 dialects among the Indians of North
America.
a project is being considered for add
ing ESQ., acres to the irrigated area
in Egypt, the water being taken from a
point so high up on the Nile that the
I canals Fl,
The large steam hammers in use in
England and on the continent for making
the forgiDgs required for artillery and
machinery arc to be quite generally re-
placed by hydraulic presses.
Two steel blocks, one weighing $50.
00o and the other ITO, 900 pounds, to
form part of the armament of an Italian
iron-clad, were recently shipped from the
Gruson Foundry at ATagdeburg.
The new vegetable, "Couealou, in.
troduced into France by NJ. Paillieux, is
sort OF tuTnip with the form of radish
and is covered with skin of bright red
nue. The flavor is similar to that of
turnip.
LepFosy is increasing in RUSSIA. During
the last ten years forty-ninc patients were
treated in the st. Petersburg hospitals,
half of whom were natives of the CITY.
The Baltic provinces suffer most from
the disease.
y New York chemist declares that
every remedy for tobacco smoking and
chewing and the opium habit contains
morphine and opium in dangerous QUAINT.
ties, and that those who sell them oupht
to be prosecuted.
The friends of the new smokeless
powder claim that if this summers OK.
perlments prove successful it will be
adopted By all military powers for use
with all classes Of guns for which fixed
ammunition is made.
The carcass lately introduced by
Russian naval officer, when fired with
percussion fuse against solid target,
bursts, deluging everything in the neigh,
borhocd with Il liquid which ut once
bursts into flame and cannot be cxtin-
gnished by means of water.
The taste for ice water is ACQUIRED
and Its use is purely habit as is that of
alcohol or tobacco. Give Il little child
ice water and it will max a wry face and
probably cry; induce an Indian in his
aboriginal state to drink glass and he
Will sputter Tor five minutes. TO the I'M
accustomed drinker it gives actual pain
and brings to all undoubted injury.
a device has been introduced to pre-
vent the infiaming of cotton bales. 1t
consists of wrapping the bales in wire
gauze i'll place of the customary lutte
ba%g'ng. lie is question whether this
VIII work as when cotton becomes in
iiamea by storing i'll the hold of vessel
1t Will ultimately burn the gauzc away, it
IS suggested that iireproofing used on
lute would be much better, such as sill
cate of soda to render the material non
inilammabe.