Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-31
sCIEsrlFIc AND INDUSTRIAL.

Pasteur vaccination Institute 10 DO.
ing planned in Romo.
Fronch mechanical engineers arc max
! ing experiments with cork car springs.
An immense reservoir i, being made
for the storage of water when tho over
flow Of tho Nile fails.
For fifty candle light circuit 10, 600
ohms is claimed as a safe insulation
against danger from fire.
Two gas buoys for use in navigation
have been successfully placed in Mel
bourne (Australia) harbor.
Switzerland, next to England, is said
to be the most important seat of the
systematic study of botany.
Lebol rifle cartridge cases are of solid
drawn copper; the bullet is of typ
metal with thin coating of steel.
DR.. Abbott thinks that the well
known behavior of the opossum whe
attacked is due to paralyzing fear.
A German artillery officer has discoy
cred new powerful explosive for shells
1t is manufactured from carbolic acid.
The artcsian we'll basin of Dakota sup
plies abundant water under pressure o:
l40 pounds to the square inch from.
wells 1865 feet deep.
Il. w. Bowditch, Boston sanitar,
expert, has contracted to mako thor
ough examination of the sewerage sys
tom of Jacksonville, Fla.
The Hume Carriage Company, Amc>
bury, Mass, has recently received sew.
eral orders from Germany for carriage,
to be sent to that country.
An English physician recomm ends the
STING n na1x Co. i.
tism. He says that he has successfully
treated 173 cases and administered 30.
900 stings.
The great advantage of high speed
engines is that the steam has no time to
condense. or, rather, that very little OF
it is condensed in comparison with the
amount utilized.
The preparation of lumber for match
woods, at the factory in Athol, is now
carried on by means of steam dryer
the apparatus, as stated, possessing the
advantage of being much less expensive
and dangerous than the old.
Russian officials have tested and re
ported favorably upon Russian inven.
ton for applying the revolver principl.
to the barrels OF Berdan rifles. By thi.
arrangement a machine gun is obtained
which will fire forty. eight shots a
minute.
The temperature of The ocean, rs de-
termincd by recent investigations. is
very low. 1t is ice cold ut the bottom
under the equator, but on the surface
within the tropics there is a relatively
thin film of warm water with a tempera
turc OF from seventy to cighty-four de-
grees Fahrenheit.
There is cob pipe factory located at
Sedan, No, which is doing IL rushing
business. The factory pays ut the rate
of II cents for Il inch cobs and Il cents
for l-inch cobs. A man hauled load
the other day of 1l-inch cobs which
brought him SOL. The time may vet
come when the people will raise wheat
for the chalf.
Experiments are being made with
new kind Of bullet for the Berdan rife,
used by the Russian troops. 1t was al
first proposed to cover the tip of the
bullet with Il copper sheath, but this
idea mas now been abandoned, as the
copper was found to causea poisonous
wound. 1t is now practically decided
to use nickel sheath.
Naturalists who have made their hab
its and history specially do not admit
that snakes can Jump clear OF the
ground. When cooled up they can
spring forward or throw their body out
to its full length; the hind part, how
ever, will still rest on the ground, where
it was before the snake uncoilcd itself
Many careful observers say snakes can
not Jump clear OF the ground in striking
at an enemy.
MIR. A. D. Elders has recently invented
process for converting iron Stag into
paving blocks. His process removes the
sulphur from the Stag. and makes it
homogeneous mass of great toughness
and durability. 1t is cast into square
blocks OF any desired size, and is claimed
to equal in quality to the best Belgian
paving stones. Its cost is considerably
less than natural rock. As the output
OF Stag from the production of American
pig iron is now about five million tons
annually. according to Mr.. ELDERS, there
Is room for big industry.