Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-09-27
POPULAR SCIENCE.
he dIamond is carbon crystalized.

the diamond Is carbon crystalizeu.
Extensive experiments are about to DO
begun for the precipitation of sewage by
electricity.
A big piece of ice in tub of water
will lower the temperature of your roop
fifteen degrees
In using fire hose pipe there is loss OF
ten to twenty-five pounds pressure to
| every hundred fcctof hose.
Rooms occupied by consumptive
should be thoroughly cleaned, floor,
walls and ceilings, at least once week.
At the new shooting grounds IN Brus.
sells electricity has been introduced to
record the results of shots at the differ
cnt ranges.
DIR. Gradenigo, of the University Of
Padua, has successfully transplnnted the
cornea from the eye of barn fowl into
the human eye.
Lime has OF late been used to draw
frost out of the ground. 1t is wet Slight
ly and covered over with blankets and
other non-conducting materials.
New York now manufactures an imi.
tation of every mineral water of any merit,
and these are bottled, labeled, and sent
out as though coming from the different
springs.
Wheatstone concluded that electricity
Travelled at the rate of 2SS, 600 miles pei
second, and Maxwell considered it to
travel Mt or about the same speed as that
or light.
From the large Popp compressed ain
station i'll Paris, it is proposed leading
distributing conduits to smaller stations,
each of which will be equipped with COM
pressed air engines intended to drive con-
tinuous current dynamos.
One of the largest leather belts ever
made is on exhibition in Boston 1t is
153 feet z inches long, 46 inches wide,
double thickness, and weighs 1923
pounds. The hides of sixty -iivc animals
were used for its manufacture.
From Norway we hear of curious
telephone experiment, where physician,
being distance of one hundred miles
from home, talked to his dog, an English
setter, through the telephone, the dog
showing his understanding by a series of
barks.
A French manufacturing firm has pat
.nted an alloy of steel with two to four
per cent. of copper. It is more elastic,
and malleablc than simple steel, and capa-
bic of far greater resistance. 1t is in
tended for cannon, armor-plates, rifle
barrels and projcctiles.
Even rain water may not be absolutely
harmless. An epidemic presenting hith-
erto unknown symptoms broke out Mt
Rio dc Janeiro Inst March, and Dr..
Domingoc Frcirc has been led to suspect
a poisonous principle washed down from
the atmosphere us the cause.
The miraculous berry" of West Afric.,
is covered externally with a soft, sweet
pulp, which imparts to the palate sem
sation that renders it possible to partake
of sour substances, and even of tartaric
acid, lime juice and vinegar, and to give
to them Il flavor of absolute sweetness.
Out of a large number of cases investi-
gated where lightning had struck build
lngs and more or less damage had been
! done, very large majority of the cases
showed that the discharge made its way
to earth through the water or gas pipes
Instead of by the lightning conductors.
One of the novelties which an Augusta,
'le., firm is sending out are electric spec
:acles. AT the end of each bow is min
lature thermoclectric pile, in which tho
electricity is generated by the heat of
The brows. The current passing along
the bows and rims, which are highly
magnetized, is said to be highly benefi-
cial to the eyes.