Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-01-25
sCIEsTIRIC sCRAPz

tho use of chemical mixtures as carly Us
1888.
A gcologist has como across evidence
in Scotland to provo that tho earth lay
in liquid state for $50, 900 years.
Whom in popular language, thuu-
dorstorm. ,''cloars tho air." it is because
ozono is generated by tho electric dis.
charge.
An English clcctriciaa has invented
Il material which no calls altcriou, for
tho prevention of corrosion in stoam
boilors.
Auinnlcu'D which oscsp, the ey,,
and which almost e!udo tho microscope,
cannot escape the all-scarching power
Of tho electric flash.
1t has boon discovered that curront
of electricity passed. through impure
water restores it to purity by destroy
ing any living g.rms with which it may
DO imprcgnatcd.
A sing.o pair OF Mornings, il allowed
to reproduce undisturbod for 20 years,
would not only supply tho whole world
with abundance Of food. but would DO :
como in C ,nvonioatly numerous.
A French surgeon ha, known of five
cases where men with squcaky voices
cut their Threats ia attempting sulciIo,
had them sowcd up ayuiu, aud ovo,
aftor their tonos wero like Til, bell ow.
ing of bull.
Iron and steel arc now u,ually dis
tinguishod by tho use of tqua FORTS,
which, whom applied to surface oil
stool, produces black spot. Ga iron
it has no effect, leaving tho metal per.
tcctly clean. BY this tost tho slightest
vein of iron III stcol can readily be dc.
toct9d.
Sound is tho sensation produced on
us whom tho vibrations Of tho air strike
on tho drum Of our chr. Whom they
arc few tho sound is dcop; as thOy in
cronsc in number, it becomes shrillc,
and shrillor; but whom they roach 49,
COO in q second they ccaso to be
audible,
IIouzeau learned tina. some mi.
mails arc capable of measuring time that
particularly interest them. II, says
that female crocodilos abend OH thci,
eggs iu the sand for ton or fifteen day.
according to tho species and return to
tho spot ut tho exact timo whcu they
are to DO Matched.
Coughing and anocziag caa be
stopped by pressing on tho nerves OIL
tho lips in tho nc;ghhorhood of the
nose. Pressing in the noighborhood oil
tho car, or pressing worry herd on til,
top of tho mouth, inside, Is nlso
means of stopping couging. Tho viii
has immonsc powor also.
In Norway it has bcca discovered
that snow offers a considerable rosis
TANGO to projoctlo,. a colonel had
snow trcnch built motros so CONT
motros thick and thrco shots wero fred
mt it from distance of SO metres. Tho
balls only penetrated TO tho distance of
metro 30 ccntimotrcs and wcro forad
entirely shapolcsa.
Hero is remedy for cramp sus.
gostcd by DR.. r. w. St. C!rir, OF Lon
don. Let tho patient provide himscl,
with good, strong cord aud keep it
always by him. Whom tho spasm comes
on lot him wind this cord around tho
affected part. tako an end iu each hand
and give Thorn good sharp pull. 1t
will hurt littlc--it il usoless il it d oes
not--but tho cramp will vanish at once.
Al tho L iison laboratory in Nav Jor.
scy experiments upon domestic animals
havo demonstrated that the alternating
current of electricity is tho most deadly
force known to science, and that by tho
alternating systom half the pressure
ordinarily used for ole ctric lights would
cause instant death. A horse having n
resistance of II, 00o ohms succumbod to
an altern ating current OF 700 volts.
Light is tho effect produced on US
whom waves of light strike on tho eyo.
When four hundred millions of millions
of vibrations of ether strike the retina
in a second, thoy produce rod, and as
tho number increases tho color passes
into orange, thon yollow, thon grocu,
tluo and violet. But bctwoon 40 900
vibrations in a socoud and four hun drcd
millions of millions wo have no organ of
sonse capable of receiving tho impros-
sion.
The BaLefuL CodEfnU Moth.