Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-08-23
POPULAR SCIENCE.


just now.
King Humbcrt is giving personal at
tcntion to the sanitary condition of Italy.
The annual production of chemicals in
France is said to have reached the great
value of 5000, 900, 600.
A pressure of one pound per square
foot is caused by II wind of little more
than seventeen miles I'M hour
A mixture of finely powdered mica
and crude petroleum is said to be giving
remarkable results rs lubricant
Four tcn-ton convcrtcrs in the Edgar
Thompson Steel Works ut Pittsburg;
Penn, turn out nine rails per minute.
by mixing chloride of zinc with tho
pulp, European manufacturers are pro.
ducing papers rs tough ~ wood or
leather.
In Philadelphia in localities where
the houses are scattered, the death rate
from consumption is only ten per cent.
In thickly settled localities it is thirty.
three per cent.
A New York physician is reported rs
saying that during IN epidemic of diph,
thcria i'll that city there were live times
'is many eases on the shady side of tho
street as on the sunny side.
A fine quality of beachcd paper is now
hcin. madc out Of sugar cane 1t is
probable that sugar cane will DC utilized
for this purpose instead of sugar-making
~ the production is too large already.
fHbn ,rr1r .,,n a a
Florida and the bahama Group has II vel
ocity of four miles per hour and II tenn
pcraturc of ciShty-two degrees luhrcn.
hclt. Both decrease to the northward.
Carpets and upholstery fade when cx.
posed To the sun because of the uctinic OF
chemical power of the suns rays, which
icc"mposc the 'lyc-stulls. The process
Is closely analogous To that which oc.
ours in the taking of photographs.
Paris La Nature describes and illus
tratcs II remarkable form of cnrihworm
which is found in Australia They arc
one and onc-qnnrtcr inches in diameter
nnd six feet in length and cxhalo n
strong odor analogous to that of crcosotc
DIR. John Gibson has made the import
ant discovery that two chemically distinct
kinds of sea water nrc present in the
| North Sea. One is rich in chlorine, and
comes from the Atlantic lo The south; the
| other has less chlorine and flows from tho
| Arctic Ocean.
From 10000 analyses in ~ German
laboratory, il appears that fluctuations in
the solids of milk depend almost entirely
on variations of the fat. The evening
milk is richer than that of the morning,
and The November and December milk
than that of other months.
remarkable phenomenon was viii.
messed nj Cardiff, England, lately After
u fall Of rain il WAS noticed that The
pools Of wntcrin The thoroughlarcs were
Hinged with red. The phenomenon is
known as "bloody rain, " anil was in an
cicnt times regarded us IL sure precursor
of plague.
| An invention 10 prevent collisions nj
sen is being successfully tried on the
Thames, London. The continuance con
ssts Of II small iron plate at the side of tho
wheel. Electricity is the acting agent,
and the approach Of another vessel within
two miles causes II bell tn ring, and nm
indicating arrow shows the direction
whence i, comes
II is proposed byn French scientist TO
get up n universal tclcgraphic language,
in which often recurring words shall DO
designated symbolcnlly by letters or fig
urcs which shall be the snmo for all Ian
guagcs IL is easy to see that such n
plan il carried out would greatly fucli-
intc international communication, yet il
would be task so difficult that few
would care TO undertake IL.