Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-07
POPULAR SCIENCE.

IfhtohioiVSiStS soy tint Ute3 possess tQt
power OF memory.
A Swiss writer attributes badness to a
microscopic fungus.
A process has just been invented for
lining iron pipe with glass In molten
condition.
Tho next thing is to mnko wall paper
that 1t can be heated by electricity, and
thus supplant stoves and coal.
The highest number Of vibrations that
can be reached by the highest string of a
piano Is about five thousand per second.
Experiments nrc now being made with
sending live fish in specially constructed
cars from Denmark to Switzerland md
Italy.
The evidence is accommodating that the
microbc Of malarin, which was described
by Iaverau, Is tho cause of intermittent
fever.
Tho Medical Rsrie,o has made the dis
covcry that mans heart weighs $50
gammes Q0b ounces), while woman's
only weighs 26o CANNES.
Tho magnificent stalactite cave latalv
discovered near Rcclcrc, Switzerland, is
estimated to be about milo long, 1000
feet broad and ten TO sixty feet high.
The geological and scientific collections
OF the late Crown Prince Rudolph are to
he distributed, by order OF the Austrian
Emperor, among the museums of Austrin
and Hungary.
Artificial irrigation, however obtained,
whether from artesian wells or canals for
the distribution of water over tho lands,
is never SO profitable us that which comes
from natural rainfall
Out near San Diego, Cal, where there
Is much coarse sand rock, covered by q
thin lnyer of soil, the experiment Is be-
ing tried of blasting holes into which to
plant shade and fruit trees.
In some Of the Indian villages of
British Guiana I'm Thurm noticed many
tanned animnls--such as parrots, macaws,
trumpcters, monkeys, toucans, etc.
which wcro used ma currency to adjust
balances in tho bartering between tho
different villages.
Fromcntinc, new elementary sub
stance consisting of the embryo of wheat
reduced 10 flour, is said TO contain thrco
times more heterogeneous substance than
meat, and considerable portion OF
sugar. II is suggested that il may nd
vantagcously rcplncc powdered meat us IL
concentrated food.
1t appears that the lover Of mushrooms
is in danger not only from poisonous
species but from poisonous state of the
edible kinds. In Switzerland several
eases Of poisoning from dried mushrooms
havc led to the conclusion that poisonous
ptomnine-likc substances may be de-
veloped in edible mushrooms by slight
putrcGnctivc changes.
Plants grow ns long MS they live, and
they live much longer han animals. A
l'oabnb tree in Senegal about 100 yards
i'll circumference, WINS rcckoncd by Adam
soRAsRbe about 5000 years old. An oak
tfefsatshirc, England, is thought to
he 1000 years old. AS The I,nobnb is
now known to be fnst growing tree,
doubt has been thrown on tho accuracy of
Adnnson's estimate.
Prcjevnlslsy's last work Describes tho
remarkable effects OF the wind on tho
soil of the deserts of Central Asin. Not
only nrc sand and dust blown about, but
sometimes smaller gravel is lifted into
the air, while larger stones nro rolled
over tho ground. In ono case stones ns
large ms mans fist hnd lodged in tho
hollow of II rock, and whrlcd around
until one had worn through two feet of
sandstone.