Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-05-24
POPULAR SCIENCE

Paper is coming largely into use as d
building material
In France experiments are being made
with cork car springs. S
Somebody claims to have found out
that the beard grows faster in sunny than
in rainy weather.
The imperial astroogers are very much
opposed to the extension of the Chinese
railroad toward Pekiu.
by use Of magnets to extract the parti.
cies OF iron, many clays once useless now
sorve for fair quality of pottery.
Some pieces of the Persian Gulf cable
laid twenty years ago show tho core to
DC rs percc rs when it left the factory.
Lartieuo single.rail railway is to be
built iu tho Argentine Fcpublic from
Chilecitc 10 the IMMORAL mountains of
Famatina.
TIC structure of the urraiscd coral
islands so far rs yet examined appears to
lend no support to tho Darwinian theory
of formation.
Tho artcsian well basin of Dakota sun.
plles abundant water under pressure Of
lao pounds 10 tho square inch from we'll.
1865 feet deep.
James Burncs, of Verona, Penn,
claims TO have found anew the lost art
OF copper welding. a company has boon
formed TO test his process
The simplest way. to moderate the glare
OF incandcsccnt lamps without lesseninp
tho lighting power is to give the globes
thin coating of collodion.
An electric shoal water indicator has
recently been invented by which the
action OF column of mercury completes
circuit and rings Il warming bell.
The United States inventors of electric
meters intend putting forth their best
eNertions to capture tho prizo IN the
meter competition in Paris this summer.
Tho now Agricultural Department, il
is said, is to become II kind of scientific
department, Bureau of Ethnolopy.
Philology, md what not, being attached
| to it.
It is claimed that the diffusion process
extracts ten to fifteen per cont. more
sugar from cano than tho bost mill work.
Louisiana planters aro adopting it as
rapidly rs money allows.
Arkansas must DO mineralogist's
paradise. Rich and very accessible do
posts OF 2inc-a metal rather scarce
heretofore in this conntry-havo been
discovered Mt two or three plnces in the
State
Paving blocks arc now made of alag.
which, it is claimed, nrc equal to tho best
Belgian stone. If the claim DO made
good il may help eastern iron men in
their lifc.nnd death struggle with south
eastern competition.
Tho bulk of the water Of tho ocean has
very low temperatures; il il leo cold at
the bottom even under tho equator, but
on tho surface within the tropics there IL
relatively thin film Of warm water with
temperature of from seventy degrees TO
eighty -four degrees Fahrenheit.
According to NJ. I.avcran, OF the
French Academy Of Science. malaria r.
duo TO an animal parasite, which belonps
to tho lowest sort Of animal lifc. Most
infectious maladiei in man, says NJ.
Invcran and NJ. llouchard, who explained
l.avcrans theory to the Academy, the
other dizzy, are due to vegetable microbes,
but marsh malaria must be attributed 10
IN nnmal.
IL Is stalled TINT Hamburg blacksmith
named Wolff has constructed nh appnrn,
tus whereby NIL the doors in II theatre
may DO opened simultaneously. The
other day experiments were made with
tho apparatus ut the Concordin Theatre,
and on somebody shouting "Firel" thu
inventor turned the handle OF the mp.
pnrntns, iixod in tho rcfrcshmcnt bar OF
the theatre, on which every exit. In the
whole building opened Mt once. ---->--