Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-28
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SCiEaT'iFfO SCRAPS

% lie wc! suited for the cultivation of
:lc tea plant.
crman pato1t has been .akcu on.
for process of transporting sulphuric
acid i'll solid state.
Accounts from Denver, Col, state
that mica, ground very fine. has boon
used on the II ,ck Island roal az a Luz.
brcant with great succoss.
The electric light of 30, 900. 900
candle power iu the lighthouse at Hans.
tholm. in the Baltic Sea, said to DO the
most powerful light in tho world, is
now lighted for service.
Experiments during three months
taken to determine the velocity of tho
wind at the top of tho Effcl Tower
show mean velocity three times
greater at the summit than at the base.
In Germany they are mixing coff,c
from linsccd meal roa,tei to dark
color and mixed with some glutinous
substance before passing through ma
chimes which form it in the shape of
beans.
To add to our knowledge of terrcs-
trial magnetism it is suggested that
regular magnetic observatorics DO os-
tablishcd at the Cap, of Good Hope,
South Africa, and at Cape Horn, in
South America.
1t is we'll known that whales can re-
main long time under water, but cx-
act data as to the time have bceu lack
ing. DR.. Kuclscnthal Of Jena ha, re-
Gently observed harpooned white
whale continued under water forty.
five minutes.
Ants arc caught aud killed at Kew
Gardens, London, by flowers Of tho or
child class. TIC ants are too large for
tho flower, but they visit IT, for tn, sake
OF the honey and get caught in the mu-
cilagc. Tho flower, however suffers
equally with the ant.
In q hard boiled hcn',-cgg, quito
fresh, German chemist lately found
white of reddish color. He supposed
this to indicate the presence of micro
organism. which lie tried to cultivate,
and succeeded in developing m intense
growth of bacillus prodigiosu'. I'VE
have here, F." he says, abacillus that not
only stool being boiled for certain
time, without impairiag its vitality,
but one inside of fresh cgg.!'
A friend of the lazy ut Bangor, Me-,
has invented device by means Of
which man can catch a fish without
fishing. He attaches small sleigh
bell to piece of barrel hoop one end
OF which he inserts into crack III the
dock. After batting his line and
throwing it overheard he fastcus it to a
hoop, puts his hands in his pockets aud
awaits developments. AS soon as tho
bell is jing;cd by jerk on the line no
hauls it in and lands the fish.
Elison's monograph has found
new application at the Milwaukee
college. where it will be used as an as.
sistant in teaching the French and
other foreign languages. The phono-
graph of course never gets tired, and
can be made to repeat the same sentence
or the same word hundreds of times.
In giving n lesson the teacher reads it
before the phonograph, at the same
time addressing the pupils, and the
lesson is rcprod uccl whenever wanted.
That the phosphorcscencc of putrid
fish or meat is due to the presence Of
bacteria does not seem strange, but
French naturalist, NJ Giard, has been
making observations OF living mGrine
crustacea which go to pcovc that their
phos phorcscence Is due TO the presence
of bacteria in the musclcI Ga inocu-
lating healthy individuals. til, diseased
condition was transmitted, and 81.
Gard S laboratory was we'll lighted at
night by thes, luminous but diseased
crustaceans.
Two very interesting specimens of
Zanzibar copal gum have just reached
this country. They arc neatly polished
and arc full of pre- historic insects of
various kinds, which thousands of yeara
ago became imbcddcd in the gum.
What lends peculiar interest to these
specimens is that the origin of such
gums is lost in antiquity, and not only,
are the trees which are supposed to have
produced them long ago extinct but
the very insects found in the gum do
not belong 10 any known varieties
Tic Pm iIel, Has dnsircrod