Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19
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POPULAR SCIENCE.
Street cars in Chicooo are to bo .boo,

Stiees cars III Chicago are to be heated
by gasoline.
Oxygen is Is substance which exists
only in gaseous or acriform state.
Carbon,is the name gwen by chemists
to the substance of wood charcoal in its
purcst form.
Several cases of blindness arc reported
among observers of tho sun during the
eclipse in California.
In the st. Louis Railroad the power is
derived from central station and dis.
tributed on overhead wires.
The projected underground electrical
railway in London is opposed on the
ground of being dangerous.
The epidemic of typhoid fever in
brooklyn, in 1885, was traced to faulty
connections between houses and sewers.
The non-rusting property of alumni
ium bronze had led the Austrian Govern
ment to experiment with it us u material
for gun barrels.
During the past four years l. ondon has
had Society of Amateur Biologists,
which studies geology on Saturday after
noon excursions.
"A Belgian has invented yacht, tho
propeller of which is operated by water
power. The economy in fuel ought to DO
something enormous.
Miss Hattie Proctor, of Defiance,
Penn, is SAID to have devised u method
OF producing gas from crude oil Mt n cost
OF only five cents per 1890 feet.
Hydrogen is only known to us in II
state of gas and when perfectly pure
agrees with oxygen and common dir III
being without taste, color or smell
The New York Experimental Station
says that there is IL. 81 per cent. less di.
gcstible albuminoids in hay that has been
Kept over one year as compared with
new hay
An examination of 200 houses in Chi
cago, in which diphtheria existed,
showed that but four of the whole num-
Der were perfect in their sanitary mr.
Engagements.
Late researches tend to show that per-
sons short of food in mid-occan might
support life indefinitely if provided with
appliances for capturing the small
marine fauna which is very abundant in
the Atlantic, and probably in ull tenn
pcrate and warm marine waters.
The new pencils introduced by Fabcr
for writing upon glass, porcelain and
metals i'll red, white and blue are made
by melting together four parts of spcr-
macctic. three parts tallow and two parts
wax, this mixture being colorcd with
white lead rcd lead or Prussian blue, rs
desired
Capitalists and scientists are Interested
in II scheme to utilize the great water
power of The Lachinc Rapids, seven
miles from Montreal, where the st.
Lawrence pours its whole body of wator
over the rocks. 1t is said that MIR. Edi.
son is ut work preparing plan for con.
Quoting the operation.
a new remedy for skin diseases is n
continual bath, the patient eating, drink
ing and sleeping there until cured. Ono
patient has been kept in such n bath for
$50 days. He is tied up always ut night
to prevent him from slipping so as to be
drowned. The palms and toes become
much shrivcled, but the rest of the skin
is unchanged. The water is kept ut
ninety eight degrees.
A London physician is of opinion that
turpcntine bath is good for rheumatism,
govt, insomnia, laryngitis Ut d bronchitis,
and recommends the following method
of preparing it: Make n saturated so!u
tion OF six ounces of yellow soap and
add to it three or four ounces of oil of
turpcntne. shake well and then put it
into the bath. which should be filed
with warm water. After fifteen minutes
immersion the patient should be put TO
bed.
Electricity cut up some queer capers
with tree in New Orleans. A puy
cable was attached to the tree from an
electric light. In some unaccountable
why the cable became crossed with live
wire, and on wet days electricity ran
down the former. Several times it set
the tree niire, and eventually started
blaze which destroyed that part of the
tree above tho wire. The trunk was
examined, and its heart was found to
have been entirely eaten out by tho cleo
tricity, leaving mere shell.