Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-02-08
POPULAR SCIENCE.

All the consultations may be seen,
with the naked eye.
Tho size used for gold lettering on
glass is made principally from the blad-
ders of fishes.
There are enormous patches of coal
scattered al over tho world, the extent.
of which is unknown.
A flexible cement which is not niure6.
by remeltirg is made OF equal parts of
gutta-pcrcha and whitc-p;nc pitch.
Chicago lard is composed principally
of cotton seed oil, stearinc and tallow,.
with II small proportion of genuine lard.
An insect proving upon boots and
shoes has been discovered by Professor
G. V. Riley. Bisulphidc of carbon vapor
kills it..
A full hlooded nan, weighing 200,
pounds, and in the best of health. will
freeze to death in u Dakota blizzard in
about thirty minutes.
by spraying the region of the externala
ear with ether. Drs. lleuopuc and Fridc),
| IF Paris, render the dental nerves in
sensible, and extract teeth without pain,
Or general nnpsthcs'a.
,arcIul experiments have shown that
waste silk is the most effective of all non
conducting coverings for steam pipes.
and the demand for this purpose promises
to bc great, Notwithstanding the high
price.
Fluff, bits of paper and wool. dust,
waste. ETC., seems especially attracted to-
the neiyhboThood of steam pipes and by
self-igntiou are the cause of the con-
domination OF ill-set steam pipes as
vcritable c-bugs.
rhe human voice is capable, it has.
occn estimated, Of producing seventeen
trillions, five hundred and ninety two.
billions, one hundred and cighty-six
millions forty-G0ur thousand four hun
drcd and fifteen sounds.
An Eastern mechanic attributes some .
Of the mysterious fires which are of fire.
qucnt occurrence to "blistcrS" in the
window pancs. II these blistcrs are
convex enough to form lens and COM
bust blcs are stored within it's focal dis
lance Il fire would bc very likely to-
/ occur.
The plan Of utilizing the suns energy
by means OF Il ihcrmopilc placed iii the
focus OF IL mirror or lens has been
patented by Mr.. Edward Weston. With
the ficicncy Of thcrmopilcs Mt not more
than three or four per cent, this gives
little promise of proving the sun engine
of the future.
Experiments made for the French
Minister of Agriculture indicate that.
! sugar is better prescrvativc of meat
than salt 1t is more expensive, but the
| powdered sugir forms coating retain
ing The juices of the meat w thout loss,
while the nutritvc qualities of the meat
are considerably lcssered 10y the salt.
One of the newest devices for utilizing
sawdust is the scheme Of II canadian,
mechanic. He claims that by grinding
the refuse into a uniform lincness, mix
ing it with the refuge gas tar from the
| gas house and comprc ssing the substance
into cakes, fuel can be made in every
way superior to soft coal for open fires.
The peculiar property of popcorn is
simply more oil than any other varieties
of maize. When gradually exposed to
heat over brisk fire the oil! in the grain
Eccomcs converted into gas, which, cx-
panding, tears open the starch cells of
the corn. The heat at the same time
cooks the starch and cnlargcs its par
ticles, so that the popped grain is snow
white and many times larger than before
it was heated.