Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-12
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Fluorido of methyl has been found In,
possess great stability.
In Washington tho electric motor cor
hauls an additional car without diffi.I
Guilty. i,
In Philadelphia the tugs and merchants
craft are being fitted with electric
1t Is proposed using tho now oloctric
taDulating system In compiling the next
census.
The are lamps IN London overcamo
the darkness caused by fog with great
In Hawkhurst, England, four inches
OF rain foil during ono day, most Of it in
Tho appearance of tho latest comet is
that OF nearly round nebulous mass.
with slight central condensation.
Heat involved in attempts mado to-
compress water increases IN greater pro-
portion than the pressure applied.
Cobalt and nickel. hitherto considered
elementary substances, have been de-
composed by Dr. Kruss, of Munich.
According to Nine. Bavatsky tho
apes are not our ancestors, but arc do
generate descendants Of prehistoric man.
Tho new chloride mines in Washing.
ton Territory arc said to be richer
than any yet discovered in that section.
1t has been observed that tho Eitrcl
tower in Paris has been frequently on
Vcloped IN cloud at height Of 52O feet.
In the now electric street railway cars
There lightning arrostcr ut the rear end
to prevent damage in q thunder showers
The battery of tho new miners lamp.
IN England, has two four-vot cells. and
its weight, complete with lamp, is Two
pounds.
Cryolite for making candles sbrought
from Greenland, where important and
little known mining operations nro car.
rlod on.
-Four negatives wcro recently taken OF
cannon ball that occupicd only
ono.forticth Of second in passing y
given space.
Rocont clcctroscopic experiments fally
confirm former conclusions regarding tho
origin of atmospheric electricity from
aqueous evaporation.
Tho Administration in Brazil IL goinm
to lit up all telegraph stations suitably
situated with Instruments for making
meteorological observations.
Nnturalists shy that there Ia NO longer
room Tor doubt rs to tho complete dis
tinctncss of tho larger nnthroroid ape-.
the gorilla-from tho smaller chimnan-
zee.
An nrca Of $500 square miles in tho
drainage basins Of tho .Icmoz and Rio
Grnndc Inns been surveyed with sufficient
detail to construct mp on the scnle of
two miles to m inch.
1t 10 thought that electric lights OF
80, 600, 900 candle power on oach of four
such structures ns tho iiillol tower, which
is to DO o9i feet high, would light tho
whole city of Paris.
Tho remedy against soro throat, Of
wearing u fow threads of Berlin wool
around tho throat, is said to net ly keep.
ing up n bolt OF skin-nciion and so act
ing ns countor.irritant.
Examinations in English schools 70
toward proving TINT color.bindncss ia
often declared to be present whom really
no organic defect, but only poor train
ing in the naming and distinction Of
colors is found to be the trouble s.
An admirable textile matter, said to
bo soft, clnstic, tough, md silky, and
which cnn DO chemically bloachcd with
out losing these properties, has been OBJ
tnincd in France from plant called
kanaif, brought from tho shores of tho
Caspian Sen.
AZ tho French biological station OF
Bnnyuls, on the Mediterranean, marine
animnls arc examined in tank lighted
by n powerful electric are. Details Of
animal organisms not otherwise visible
such rs cmbryos swimming in the bodies
of their patents, aud tho cont raction and
expansion of living tissucs-aro thus
easily seen.
A now remedy for skin diseases, says
tho Hospitai, is n continual bath, tho
patient catng, drinking, and sleeping
thoro until cured. One patient has been
kept in such bath for $50 dnys. He Is
tied up always Mt night to prevent him
from slipping so Us to be drowned. Tho
palms and solcs become much shrivollcd,
but tho rest of tho skin is unchanged.
Tho winter is kept at OS degrees.