Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-10-25
POPULAR SCIENCE,

toal cutting machines are HOW run by
electricity.
The average depth of all the oceans Is
from 1000 to 2500 cathons.
Theme city of Tiai-pei Flu in Forrnosa
is lighted electrically, the plant being in
| charge of native workmcn
The Frcnch Government, when il taxes
possession Of The telephones in France,
proposes furnishing the service to the
public at cost.
At the next military man9uvres in
France new application of telcgraphy
will be made, which innovation it is
! thought will be of the greatest utility in
| time of war.
Electric lighting is slid to be one OF
! the hardest kinds of work for a steam
engine, the continuous running and the
work being thrown ON and Off instantane-
ously, causing immense strain.
An Easton PENN paper says Charles
Zinc has an amorphophallus plant, the
only one of the kind in that section
The odor of the flower is that of stale
raw meat, but its color is beautiful.
Concerning the great British naval re-
view-evcry arnor plate in that fleet is
fastened with the late Sir William Pallis
er's patent screw bolts, and the Govern
mcnt las never paid for one of them vet.
Discussions on the economic size of
line wire brings ont the fact that the di-
ametcr of the wire depends on the price
OF copper, cost of power and quantity of
current, and is entirely independent of
the length of the current
Ten men with drills operated by cleo
tricity can take cut as much ore and tun
mel us far rs 100 men with picks, shovcis
and blasting material, besides which the
buildings can bc lighted and Il great saw
ing on insurance and oil made thereby.
One paper mill in England, in Setting
bourne, manufactures enough paper every
year to put a belt around the world some
100 inches in width. One OF the constituents
of this paper is csparto grass, which is
brought in great bales from Algeria.
y test has lcen made in France to see
whether the color of g horse had any,
thug to do with his characteristics. It
has been demonstrated that any such
idea is all nonsense. Pedigree and early
training have I'LL to do with it, and color
nothing whatcvcr.
At the sham battle Tough at spandaut
by the German troops for the amusement
OF Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
one division used new .smokcless''
powder, the effect being that no smoke
was visible at IL distance Of 500 yards,
and no sound was heard beyond slight
>apping.
From recent study Of the bones ol
antlropoid apes it appcars that the goril
Ia and chimranzcc approach nearest to
man, but in different degrees, the orang-
outang holding the third place. But
great differences exist between the pro
portions Of the human frame and those of
Qll the apes.
Dr. Nasen estimates that tho ice of
Greenland's interior mus; be 5000 feet
thick in places, even the tops of the
mountains probably being covered with
hundreds OF feet Of glaciers lie believes
tina; the wind has much to do with main.
tanning the ice level and that the quaint.
ty o! snow does not vary much from ycar
to year.
There are in Nevada several deposits
Of mineral soap, one of which has been
worked for some years, the soap being
formed by natural combinations of soda,
borax and mineral oils, the process in
some localities being assisted by hot
springs; some of these natural soaps are
cut up and sold as found, but they are OF.
tcncr used in combination with Other
soups.
The latest use of photography is to
make cannon bali take Il picture of it.
own wabbliugs. An arrangement some.
thing like a camera is to be placed in the
forward end of the projectilc, and wher
1t is fired directly ut the sun the light
traces lines upon the plate, from the di.
rcction of which it can be told whether
the proiectile has kept i'll one position 0,
has wavered to and fro during its flight.