Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-06-14
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS
Tanning by electricity is one of tho
newest applications In tho industries.

ianuinS ny eicctr1city Is one OF tho
newest applications In tho industries.
The results of glass engraving by
electricity are said to be OF marvellous
dclicacy.
a Canadian has patented device by
which he can make years supply OF
ice for rs cents.
A paper that resists the action of both
fire and water, it is said, has been re.
| Gently made in Germany
Professor Kulcschoff, after long in
vcstiga,ion, concludes that tho ancestors
of the European cattle must be searched
for in India.
| In Germany wash consisting of par
ailinc wax dissolved in heavy cal Tar
oil has been found very eflicaciou, for
damp walls.
The underground electric railway in
! London will be only twelve feet below
the street level, and the roof will come
within about two feet of the surface.
A new process of hardening plaster of
Paris has been discovered whereby il
can be adapted 10 the construction of
flooring in place of wood.
The body of boy recently drowned
in pond was found by fastening an in
candcscent electric light to pole and
Illuminating the water about the bottom
of the pond.
a new powder adopted in the British
army is the invention e Mr. Hcngst. 1t
! is-eaid to be smokeless, flavorlcss and
non heating, with less rccoiI and report
than the powder of the old sort.
A line of cable cars passing through
LII salc-strcct tunnel, in Chicago, is to
he lighted by incandcscent lamps as the
cars enter the tunnel the current being
thrown out as daylight is again reached.
DR.. Thurston, the superintendent of
the Madras QndiO museum, is visiting
the European electrical establishments to
find suitable light to be use in TWEEN.
ty fathoms Of water for the use of the
pearl fishers.
Frcnchmcn of Science have produced
artificial cmcralds by fusng silica, alu-
NINA and gucina with traces of oxide
of chromium, with acid molybdatc of
lithia ut temperature of from 600 to
| 700 degrees for Is DAVIS
a novel toy has been built in Bridge
port, Conn, which consists of in iron
boy four feet eight inches high, driving
handcart. An electric motor inside
the boy is put in motion by current from
II storage battery in the cart
Lake Superior is said to bc the most
ancient Of the great lakes, dating back
to Cambrian, AMI, it MAJ be earlier
times, and that it formed in other ages
one OF the sources of n great river sys-
TEN, terminating on the Atlantic sea-
board
In Switzerland cars arc run up TO n
! hotel 2300 feet above tho lake level by
rope traction, the drum being worked
by electric motors, which are driven by
dynamos two and half miles distant
where there is sufficient water power to
turn turbine wheels.
Moths of some kinds are said TO
change color to match the food that
they may happen to cat. A great moth
enclosed in a box-lincd with pink tissue
paper turned from grygrccn to pink,
and when white lining was put in the
box the moth bccama white
~ discussion as to the height OF trees
in the forest of Victoria has elected
from Baron Won NIucllor, the govern
ment botanist, the staten cat that he saw
one of a height of 525 feet. The lato
Chief Inspector OF Forests measured ono
fallen and found that it was ass feet
long.
How sponges bore into limestone or
shell is rs yet an unsolvcd problem. Mr..
Nassonoff has investigated new species
OF clone which tunnels oyster and mus
sci shells, and he believes that the Dor
ing of the canals and galleries is per-
formed solely by the soft parts of the
sponge. The penetration of the pro-
longation of the body of the sponge in
to the shell appears to be accomplished
by the secretion of corroding liquid,
probably an acid.
Happy Poverty Of tho Japanese
1t is question MS to whether