Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-05-09

SCIENCE.

fnadc by tho use Of
inc spectroscopc show that all the
heavenly bodies appear to be composed
OF the snmc chemical clements.
Tho sustaining power of the Forth
bridge, in Scotland, may be imagined
from tho statement that each cantileyer
would sustain six of the greatest iron
clads.
An Austrian meteorological has asccr-
tanned by careful investigation that tho
moon has influence on magnetic
needle, varying with its phrases aud its
dcclination.
a geographical globe for the Shah of
Persia is to show the different countries
III precious stones. France will be indi.
Gated by sapphircs, England by rubics,
Russia by diamonds, and so on, while the
seas Will be represented by cmcralds. 4
Many salmon Of the rivers of Finland
contain copper hooks of peculiar form
1t is now know that these hooks aro used
In the north of Germany, and that sal.
mon of the Finnish rivers must dosccpd
III winter to the Baltic coasts of Germany.
~ portable house of paper, lately con-
structed in Hamburg, for use rs a res
taurant, has walls with nm inner lavcr
lmprcSnatcd against fro and an outer
one against moisture. Tho paper is
liked in rcadily-conncctcd frames. Tho
lining room is ninety feet long.
The international display of scientific
progress to by made this year include
the Electrical and Industrial Byhibition
at Edingburgh and tho Exhibition of
i,otany aud Microscopy Mt Antwerp. At
INC iatter WIN DO celebrated tho tcrccn-
tcnary OF the compound microscope
In showing tho commercial ADVANTAGE,
OF opening up n sea route, through
fngor Strait to the great Siberian rivers.
Captain A. Hovgaard directs attention
To tho TACT Tint tho Kara Sea IL tho only
route to the North Pole still left untried.
f'f.givcs good reasons for expecting sue.
cess by >ahis route. tasus
A florist in knndon Inns had tho hops,4s
thought of hanging trails of moss XXX.
and around the electric lights in his NJ
uow. Nothing could DO moro graoesNiffes
pretty than their soft environment. ~I.Ss
green aud yellow tints of the delicate
leaves form II lovely veil for tho light.
which glimmcrs through them without
being diminished. 8S.iN
Tho eruption of krakatao, East indies.
in 1883 destroyed all animal md
vegetable life in tho sen around &c. md
covered the coral reef Of tho shore under
n bed of ashes and pumicc-stonc over
sixty icct thick. Nevertheless, II new
shorc-rcci IL now forming on this volcanic
layer. and has already attained the
breadth Of II metre.
In u report on the Konr gold field of
Southern Indin, b. Smith mentions the
finding of interesting remains of ancient
mining, such MS old timboring, frnp.
ments of bones, m oil lamp and pieces
OF carthcnwnrc. Tho fact that tho old
miners, with their simple appliances.
reached depths of 200 or 800 feel
through hard rock astonishcs him.
Some of tho conclusions of scicnco
wonld indeed be appalling but for their
practical harmlessncss. Thus, tho gcol-
ogists assert that if tho continents and
tho bottom of tho ocean were graded
down to uniform level, the whole
world would be covered with water
mile deep, so much greater is the de-
preston Of tho ocean bed thnn the clcya-
ton of tho existing land
1t is remarked thut the central portion
OF brick for building purposes is Of
little value, md could be loft hollow ~
well rs not where tho material is an item
to look out for, provided IL makes no
more work for those in tho brickyards.
They nrc to DO stood on one end, OF
course, to keep rats and other vcrmin
from making use Of the cavities In the
basement.