Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-01-10
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL

for making artificial tortoise shell with
the white of eggs.
A recent death from hydrophobia is
supposed to have resulted from allowing
dog to lick razor cut on the face.
On Maiden Island, in the Pacific,
guano is conveyed to the coast over a
tramway about five miles in length, on
which the loaded trucks arc driven by
sail power.
The Inter den Linden of Berlin, with
three lines Of arc lamps separated by two
rows of trees, is said to he the hest illu-
minated thorouShfarc in the world. The
wires are under ground.
A "fossil Forest has been discovered in
Scotland. Thirty or forty fossil trunks
have already been laid bare, most of
which are gray frccstonc. Ono of the
trunks is mt least two feet in diameter.
1t is fifteen years since the Trappist
monks began to plant eucalyptus trees in
the Roman Campagna, Italy. Now sew
cral hundred acres arc covered with them,
and there has been Il large decrease in the
malarial fcvcrs once so common in the
district
a vegetable cartridge shell, which is eli
tircly consumed in firing, is French
novelty. With this shcll, the cartridge
has scarcely half the weight of metal
cartridge, the cost is considerably less,
and the Inconvenience of removing the
shell after each shot is avoided.
As Il general rule, it is said to be Il
very difficult matter TO gauge the speed
of fishes. The fast fishes are trim and
pointed in shape, with their Inns close to
their bodies. The dolphin and bonito arc
thought to he the fastest, and, although
their speed is not known, they are fully
capable Of twenty miles an hour
A curious mishap to a submarine
cable is reported from South America.
The cable failed TO work. and on going
out TO repair it the body of an immense
whale was found cntanglcd in the cable
to such IN extent that it was unable TO
cxtricatc itself, and, being unable to get
fresh air, the huge lcviathan had been
suiTocatcd.
As Il remedy against electrical sun.
stroke" as the affection is called that
attacks men exposed TO the intense rays
of the electric arc by means of which
metals are fused and welded, is veil OF
mask of glazed taifcta, supported by a
wicker head piece, and provided with
goggles of gray glass.
H. Pasicur delivered IN address the
other day in Paris to the members of the
Society of Practical Medicine, and in it
declared with much emphasis that rabies
is never spontaneous. Tho microbc pro-
ducing it, he said, was invariably trans
mittcd. This means, of course, that no
dog ever goes mad unless he has been bit
ten by another mad dog, fact at once
important and rcassuring.
An cmigrant photographer declares that
tho map of Africa is changed by every
mail. Fresh geographical news from the
dark continent twice made necessary
changes of parts OF the great globe OF
the Paris Exhibition during its construc.
ton; and two years ago some Belgian
map-makers were five times compelled 10
take from the press large map Of the
Congo State for additions and corrcc-
lions.
Sacchariu dcccives The human palate,
but not that of cats, dogs, and wasps.
I.iebrcich has demons; rated that bees and
dogs can distinguish uncrringly between
food containing sacchnrn and ihat which
is free from it. Some cats also declined
10 touch their food when it was sweet
cned with saccharin; when new supply
free from the obnoxious swcctcning. was
substituted, they smcllcd it carefully, but
finally ate ii.
y Dutch physician has recently de-
carcd that close connection exists be-
tween the exercise Of our mental facul-
ties and disorders OF the nose The opin.
ion is expressed that if it were generally
known how many eases of chronic head.
ache, OF inability to learn or to perform
mental work were due to chronic disease
OF the nose, many OF these eases would
be easily cured, and the number of child.
victims of the so-callcd ovcrprcssurc in
education would be notably reduced.