Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-07-11
POPULAR SCIENCE.

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Coffee is injurious to the health of
some i,coplc.
Tho depth of 4 scsY about six miles
deep is reduced $50 feet by compress
sion.
Two French chemists have succc cdcd
in making crystals, which have all the
appearance Of fine emcralds.
Victor Meyer III u recent address dc
clares that we may reasonably hope that
chemistry will teach us to make the fibre
OF wood source of human food.
The Sanitary Nt,cs says that tho uni
vcrsal habit among women of biting off
the thread with which they are sewing is
prolific OF sore throat and blood poison
ing.
Ii the ocean were incompressiblc the
level Of the surface would be 116 feet
higher than it is ut present, aud abou.
1000, 900 square miles of land would be
submerged.
a very ingenious instrument has lately
appeared for showing the velocity and
pressure of the wind. The effect is pro-
duccd by the rising or falling i'll level of
mercury i'll a trough.
Ii is stated that the iirmncss of paper
sized with resin increases by storage,
owing to the fact that the resin in the
paper undcrgocs an operation of harden
ing by exposure to the air.
One of the more interesting and curl
Gus results of recent spectre Photographic
work, Is the discovery of the duplicityo of
several stars far too close to be divided
by amy existing telescope.
The fishermen of Ireland now carry oil
rs II means of smoothing the waves in
rough weather, AMI are thus enabled to
continue fishing ut times when otherwise
they would be compelled to put for the
shore.
a mcdicamcnt moro powerful than
quinine in counteracting fcvcrs is said to
have been discovered in Mexico 1t is "A
plant called the pombolano, the root of
which contains II substance analogous to
quininc.
vegetable flannel is male in Ger
many of fine leaves which are woven into
undcrgarmcnts and clothing of various
kinds. One great advantage is no yer.
min will lodge in clothes made from tho
material.
Croft0n, naturalist and gcologist, SAYS
| that there was darkness over the world
for space Of 600 years during tho
formation of the earth, with flashes of
lightning aud pcals of thunder ut inter
walls Of live minutes.
In Paris all the electric light wires, no
matter Of whit description, are under
gronnd-tclcphon and telegraph ~ well
as electric light. This is accomplished
under stringent municipal regulations,
and accidents are unknown.
Tic bolo flower, discovered by DR..
Schadcnbcrg growing upon IL volcanic
mountain in one Of the Philippine Islands,
is perhaps the largest flower in existence,
being about three feet in diameter and
twenty-five pounds in weight.
In making charcoal for gunpowdcr it is
always kept for three or four days in mir.
tight cylinders before picking over, and
ten days to n fortnight before il is ground.
This, it is said, is done to countcract the
wcll-known tendency TO lire if exposed
too soon after il is made.
The most striking exhibit IN collcc.
ton OF photographs before the Royal
Meteorological Society was II large num-
Der of exceptionally fine photographs Of
clouds and atmospheric phenomena re-
pfoaholnS I'D most faithful manner the
ssseadid spohffsst,nf white clouds and
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