Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-10-04
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS

War balloons are being made in Eng
land for the French army.
Parachutcs have been adopted in Ger
many for campaigning purposes.
An average OF five feet of water is es-
timated to fall annually over tho whole
| earth.
An Italian engineer has successfully
presented tho incrustation Of steam
boilers by the use of suglr.
There is quite an agitation on this
side the water in favor Of metal ties in
stead of depicting our forests year by
year.
Tho electrical treatment of sewage
bids fair TO give sanitary engineers ono
of the most valuable improvements sub
United 10 them in Il long time.
English authoritic, have concluded
that dynamic cooling, if not the solo
cause of rain, is at all events, the only
cause Of any Importance, all other causes
being either imperative Or relatively in.
significant.
Worcester, Mass, has factory 70.
the manufacture of corrugated steel
barrel hoops, lately invented, which arc
said 10 be elastic, ami hug barrels or
packages tightly. They are welded in
two seconds
1t is pointed out that when much dust
is present i'll the atmosphere tho heat of
the sun is greatly absorbed, hence it
seems probable that dust PARTICLES may
aid in the formation OF fogs in another
way than by acting as nuclei
Professor Elisha Gray remarks that
electrical science has made greater adj.
vance in the last twenty years than in
all the 5000 historic year, preceding.
More is discovered in one day now than
in thousand years of the middle arcs.
A Lewiston (NIc.) paper says; "a
method of distinguishing the mushroom
from the poisonous toadstool is said to
be by sprinkling salt on the unlcr side.
IT il turns black tho mushroom is good;
il yellow, it is poisonous. lime should
he given the salt to act"
1t has been noticed that jet of com,
pressed sas inilicts upon the body an
injury OF the same nature as burn
DIR. B. W. Richardson has accordingly
suggested the use OF compressed gas
carbonic acid as most convcnicnt-,s n
cautcry, with advantages in rcmov;ar
warts, etc.
The fastest locomotive cmploycd il
carrying tiic Scotch mail, where the
highest rate of speed in England is at
tanned, mas tlrce cylinders, new de-
parturc in locomotive building, and a
Sovcn-fcct driving wheel 1t has been
made specially for high speed with
heavy trains.
The wiring of The Parliament Build
Ing in Vienna has been qu.c ;ngcniou.ly
accomplished, the principal cable run
ming through one of the many vcntiat-
ing pipes, The wires being carried
through the gas piping, thereby allow
ing TIE elaborate decorations on the
walls to remain uninjurcd.
An artcsian we'll in North CITY,
suburb Of ST. Augustine, Fla, is said TO
have the largest flow Of any ar,esian
well in the world. i; is an cigh,-inch
we'll, and its flow exceeds the highes.
expectations. From measurement
made by DR.. J. X. Raincy, the flow cx-
cccds 5000 gallons per minute, or over
/ 500, 900 gallons every lwcnty-four
hours
While VIC expect TO find the eac,
upon the head in Inc larger animals, we
look in vain for The same arrangement
III the lower invertcbrate creatures
Many OF these, like the scallop, have 10
head; others, like crabs and HOLSTERS.
have no cars placed on their horns or
attcnn;c; Others, like the green grass.
hopper, have the car on the forcIcp:
others, like the fresh water shrimp.
have ii on the tail.
Effects Of Heat.
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