Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-09-12
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Fogs arc highly prcjudicial to orchids
aud tomatoes.
Man, the ape, and nearly all rumi,
nants, have thirty-two teeth.
An astronomer says stars do not
twinkle; it is your eyes that do that.
A new bleaching process, effecting a
great saving in time and money, is being
introduced into Southern cotton mills.
The lowest land in the United States
is not Death Valley, but Salton, San
Diego County, CAL, which is 1858 feet
below the sea level,
French scientists have analysed a quart
OF water taken from typhoid infected
district, and found 10000, 600 to 60.
ooo,0O typhoid germs therein.
The electricians are not satisfied with
the present form of storage battery, and
the experts are hard ut work to invent
and introduce something more practical.
According to recent work on lon
gevity, published in Norway, the av.
eragc duration of life in that country is
4S.33 years for men, aud 51.3 for
women.
The new German military rifle has a
range of 5000 yards, and will shoot
through the bodies of six men standing
one behind the other ut distance OF
seven PAGES,
The Canadian Dominion Government
will shortly organize an expedition.
headed by American experts, to explore
the oil regions in the far North, near
Athabasea.
For practical purposes, clouds are di.
vided into four classes, cumulus, stratus,
cirrus and nimbus. .ketcorologists, how
ever, recognize many differences of form
in each class
AT recent meeting of committee OF
the English Royal horticultural Society
a plant was exhibited proving that n dis
tinct step has been made in the cultiva.
tion Of the deep-blue primrose.
The medical department of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania has anaSufaced
that hereafter course of four years
duration will be necessary to entitle a
candidate to the degree of doctor OF
medicine.
The aerolite which was seen from all
parts of Iowa recently has been found in
Winnebago County, eleven miles north.
east of Forest City. 1t had exploded,
and the pieces were scattered over con-
siderable territory.
Blue soap, rendering the employment
OF bluing in laundry work unnecessary,
is made by Incorporating with ordinary
soap solution of anilinc green in
strong acetic acid. BY the action OF
the alkali of the soap, the green is con.
verted into blue, uniformly coloring the
mass.
The disease in the peach tree known
to orchardists as s'the curl" under
which the leaves in carly spring are bills
tered and twisted into many forms, is, il
is we'll ascertained, due to n fungus, AS.
comyces dcformaus. How it starts into
growth is yet one of the unsolved prob
lens of biology.
In Massachusetts the birth rate of the
native population is eighteen per 1000,
while that of the foreign population, is
more than fifty-four per 1000, which is
considerably higher than that of any
other country. The proportion of deaths
among the foreign born, as compared
with the natives, is one to three.
The prize of $4,000 offered by the
French Academy for some certain test OF
death, looking to the prevention of being
buried alive, was given to n physician,
who announces that on holding the hano
OF the supposed dead person to strong
light, If living, Il scarlet tingc is seen
where the fingers touch, showing that
the blood continues to circulate, there
being no scarlet when the subject is
really dead.
A French statistician has been study.
ing the military and other records with n
view of determining the height of men
at different periods. The recorded facts
extend over nearly three centuries. tits
found that in 1910 the average height of
man in Europe was 1.75 metres, or cay
8 feet . inches. In 1890 it was feet 6
inches. In 1920 it was feet inches
and fraction. At the present time it is
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