Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25
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Blue vitrol has been Shown to be a
remedy for the peachblow potato blight.
Washington City is to have pneu-
matte street railway mile and a half
long.
Five grains of choral hydrate per
oSuce of water is said to he u perfect
daEdrufT eradicator.
A machine has been invented Which
will takea fiat piece of leather and crimp
it into the shape of shoe-upper without a
seam. 1t will not work with glazed ma
terial like morocco.
The British commission appointed to
investigate the properties and application
~ chloroform has reported that it is not
the heart, but the respiration that is
menaced by this drug.
Professor Forster, Head Physician of
the Royal Eye Hospital in Breslau, Ger
many, maintains that Observation-Disclosures
in children is not infrequenty due to
their wearing too tight fitting collars.
The experiment of putting the Eiffcl
tower and the spires of the Rouen cathe-
dr.l iii optical communication is fail
IRE because of the rising of the soil
caused by the spherical form of the
earth.
"Antibakterikon" is the name given
to water charged with oxygen that is
changed to ozone by Il current of electric
ity This fluid mot its name) is said
to destroy the virus Of diphtheria and
scarlet fever.
Tie servants Of the Hudson BAY Com
pany live for years upon diet composed
of lean meat and fish alone. Some of
them have lived on this for thirty years,
aud are well and strong. This gives a
black eye to vegetarianism.
Asphalt pavemcnts are not Mt all per-
feet. The city engineer of Louisville
reports that the beautiful pavements of
that city are breaking up badly, and I'M
less something is done, will be in rs de-
plorable condition Us their other
streets.
In 1888 Europe was for months COW
cred by the dust elected by an Icelandic
volcano, and the Atlantic for 900 miles
west of the northwest coast of Africa is
every year subject to haze composed OF
fine PARTICLES of sand from the Great
Desert.
Professor Haddon, of Dublin, declares
that 81 species of fish of Torres Straits
breathes largely through its tail-tiu.
Though living much out of water, it was
not affected by prolonged submersion,
but soon died when its tail had beer
vanished
A Russian practitioner recommends
the use of hyoscyamus seeds for tooth
ache. His plan is to burn the seeds and
10 convey the smoke through little pa
per tube to the hole in the tooth. He
declares that i'll nearly all cases one APP
plication, or at most two, will suffice to
cure the toothache.
Every one lives faster than his or her
ancestors; and for this reason life should
be shorter. AS against this, there arc so
many new remedies, processes and opera
tions, and human life is guarded now so
much more sacredly than formerly, that
we should live longer, despite the fact
that we are living faster.
Ine name OF .ardenDrte" Is giving to
new invisible lacquer recently intro
duced in London. 1t is spoken of rs so
strong as to withstand weather, steam,
smoke, sea air, or sea water, and gold,
silver, copper, steel, brass, or iron does
not tarnish when coated with it. 1t is
SO fine as 10 be unseen on the most deli
cate surfaces.
An interesting surgical operation was
recently performed ut Vienna. DR..
f,leischl, professor of physiology at the
University at Vienna, who for n long
time has been suffering from intense
nervous pains, the result of poisoning,
was completely cured by attaching the
corresponding nerve of IL rabbit to the
diseased nerve. The case is creating con-