Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-17
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS


Sir John Lubbock has Just discovered
that tho death ratio in London is 1Gi
per 1000 as against III in other En-.
glsh cities.
Agrocer in Jersey City. N. j., had
been complained of to tho county board
OF health for selling sunburnod pota.
toes. The complainant alleged that
such potatoes nro poisonous.
Gen. Lew Wallace, the author of
"Ben lIur," has invented n stool rail.
roai cross tito watch, if it is as success.
iul as the inventor claims it will b., will
rcvolutioniz, railroad construction.
big Kaleidoscope which rovoves
Tor several minutes for tho benefit Of
tho person who drops II nickel in the
slot with which it is provided is tho
latest production in this prolific limo.
Tho oldest medical work, M Egyp.
tian papyiu' dating from 1900 years or
moro bel ore Christ, and containing nrc-
scrip.ions then oil. has been tran slated
by George Eocrs. the German novo.i,t.
The increased binding power of CO.
mant duo to tho addition of sugar il
thought to DO duo moro to mechanical
than chemical cau'cs. NJ sugar rctnr DIS
rather than accclcralcs tho setting of tho
cement
further step toward tho artificial
production of the diamond ha, been
male by passing IN electric current
through carbon electrodes in II coll con.
tanning fine whito sand and clcctrolyto.
the whole being under considerable
pressure.
While all races have general SINH
larlty in the proportion Of tho height of
tho hcai to tho whole body, tho yell ow
races have comparatively "high" hca Is.
Women, moreover, in all races, other
'hing' being equal, have higher hc,is
than mon.
Experiments recently made in Franco
with view to discovering the yi,ulity
OF trichinip show Tint even when cx.
posed ton temperature of 20 dcyrcns
to 20 degrees below zero for about two
hours the little animals bccomu IA l,vcly
MS cvor on return TO normal tcmp,r.
aturo.
Fish meat, according to Professor
Atwalcr researches, does not contain
more phosphorus than ordinary butch.
cFs mont. Tho benefit which brnin-
workers arc said to derive from II d lot
oil fish should therefore b. ascribcd. not
to tho phosphorus. but to tho greater di
go'tibllity OF tho fish.
Aluminium is developing its value in
another fold OF use fulnoss-tho manu-.
iacturc of ship plate. A plato in whc.,
ten per cont. Of IL Is used posscsso,
great strcngth, will take high polish,
and Is absolutely proof against tho
roding action Of sea. water and the
adherence of bnrnaclcs, sen grass, and
othor similar matter. Gun. barrels mndu
Of Ibis alloy will not rust.
Tho native Egyptian is m extremely
good subject f,r surgical operation.
Clot Boy, the foundcr of modern moii.
cine in Egypt, has it that lit requires
M much surgery TO kill one Egyptian
as seven Europeans. In the nalyo
hospitils, tho man wh'sn thigh has
been amputatcd Mt two O'Clock iasitting
up and lively nj six" Shock is almost
entirely unknown. nm dread of mn i'm.
pending operation quite m exception.
Professor G.. Frederick Wright, Of
Obcrlin College. has, small flint stone
idol, recently brought up by sand
pump near Boise City, Idaho, from n
depth of 800 feet bancath the surf face of
the earth. lie and many other scicn
lists think ii is the oldest mark of
human lifo that has yet b,cn discovered :;
and believe it to DO the work OF tho
antcdiluvinn man. 1t shows its prcat
age by the peculiar coating Of IN oxide
Of iron that covers il.
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