West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-08
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Krupp has just completed a gun for
the Russian Government that has range
of eleven miles.
A farmer of Braintrce, Mass, has Just
died from CHAMBERS, having caught the
disease of one of his horses.
The habitual drinking OF boiled water
would insure escape from sickness and
death TO thousands OF the human race
yearly.
IL is announced that a photographer
named Vcrcsez, in Kla, Transylvania, has
succeeded in taking photographs in nat
ural colors.
Signor Succi, the Italian scientist, has
come to the front again with his discov.
cry of liquid, the use OF which enables
man to go an unlimited length of time
without food
A Russian officer has invented lu1in.
Gus projectile to be thrown from gun.
Ii is claimed that il will be extremely
useful for discovering the movements Of
AN enemy in naval contest at night.
Silks that are dyed in this country are
less heavily weighted and arc not sub
tho Frenchmen often use two pounds and
a half of dye stuff to one pound Of silk.
The rich magnetic iron near Dahlonega,
Ca, continues To excite much interest.
Thousands of acres are being conveyed
by option to outside capitalists, who
propose developing it when the railroad
is completed.
ac ~ ln. To-.
food substances which are never grossly
adulteratcd. Its only adulterant, in fact,
mt the present time is its coloring ma
terial, which is usually annatto, saffron
or common carrots.
According to reliable estimates not
more than one egg in 200 Matched natur
ally in the waters produce n fish capable
of feeding itself, thus representing by
far the greatest expectancy of destruc-
ton in the number of eggs laid by the
female.
In Europe iron Stag is cast into blocks
and used for street payemcnts aud house
building. In Cleveland, Ohio, there is
factory which converts it into mineral
wool. IL is mass of very fine fibres
filled with CLASSY particles. 1t is soft,
plant aud inelastic.
The substitution of steam for com
pressed air in gun intended to throw
shells containing dynamite or other high
explosives is proposed in France, the adj
vantages claimed being the furnishing of
power direct from the boiler without the
use of air-compressing machinery.
One-seventh Of the coal mined is lost
from being broken up too finely to be
burned with profit. A prominent rail-
road company is now mixing the dust
with pitch, and COMPRISING it into
blocks that burn like hard coal, with the
advantage that they are entirely consumed
to ashes and leave no clinkers.
English stoats and weasels are being
exported to New Zealand from England
in large numbers to kill off the rabbits,
and the rats which have been food for
the stoats and weasels in England are in
creasing enormously in many districts.
There is talk of movement to prevent
the expectation OF any more rat destroy
ers.
The natives of Hayti, according to DR..
*. Z. Crandall, fear pulmonary consump-
ton more than yellow fever or smallpox,
and believe i! to be both contagious and
infectious. All property from con
snmptiycs eath-chamber-even Jewels
and money-is destroyed or removed to
place of deposit, and small houses are
burned
An electrician, writing recently on the
action of electricity on the human body,
fhaN ..eN, rIaN al IL
human organism to produce death from
an electric current seems to be an I'M
solved problem. One of the theories
sometimes advanced concerning it is that
when being suffers death from electric
shock it is pure case of internal rupture
or explosion from the generation Of gas
or vapor.