Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-02-07
POPULAR SCIENCE.

The average human life in Rome,
under Cesar, was eighteen years now it
is forty. si Sass
A Russian mineralogist, X. D. Chrust.
schoff, claims to have discovered now
metal, which he proposes to name ''Rus.
sum-
The largest incandescent circuit in tho
world Is forty-five miles in length. The
company working it is situated at OF
tawa, Canada. r4H
No fewer than 1910 patients bitten by
tutc in the year ending October 81.
There were thirteen deaths.
According to the eminent psychologist,
NJ. Sappey, the stomach contains 5000,
600 glands by which the gastric juice is
secrcted, and few others which secrete
only mucous.
To the perfumes of flowers VI. I'm,
gerer ascribes the power of protecting
against, and even arresting, consump-
ton. In the perfume distilling town of
La Grasse lung troubles are but little
known.
The elephant skeleton set up in the
front hall of the Madras Undi;O museum
is ten feet six inches high, aud it hus
been stated that this is the skeleton Of
the largest elephant ever killed in that
country.
Oil for locomotives in place of coal
will, it is stated, he largely introduced OH
one of the English railways soon. 1t is
probable also that petroleum refuse will
be used for fuel in consequence of the
high price of coal.
A complete list of the flora Of New
foundland and Labrador, in preparation
by Rev. A. &. Waghornc, will contain
| about nine hundred species of towering
plants, fifty ferns aud over two hundred
| and fifty moses and lichcns.
Surgeons are finding constantly incrcas-
ing opportunities for making use of cleo
tricity i'll the service of their profession.
1t Is said to be admirably adapted for the
treatment of neuralgia pain, and its ap-
| plicatlons in chronic cases is very bench i.
| cial.
Among those who have worked out the
problem of procuring aluminium by cleo
trolysis NJ. SIinct is one of the most sue
cessful. The elcctrolyte used 10y him is 4.
mixture OF from thirty to forty per cent.
of cryolite with from sixty to seventy per
cent. of common salt.
DIR. Burden Sandcrson forcsccs another
division in science. lie observes. in II
biological paper in the British Associa-
ton, that morphology and physiology have
now diverged so widely, rs regards sub
ject aud method, that there seems TO be
danger of Il complete separation of one
from the other.
new style Of horseshoe has been
patented by two Wisconsin men. The
shoe is made i'll sections, with elastic
cushions between and rivets connecting
the sections, making Il shoe in which
there will be Il vertical yielding of spring
avoiding shocks or jar to the horse while
travelling over hard pavemems or roads.
new mode Of teaching music has
been proposed in France, based on the
periodicity of the octave. A radical re-
form is aimed ut, the system being en-
| pounded in Il series Of fundamental prop
ositions-such rs musical effect is quite
different from acoustic effect; there can
be no physical gamnt, major and minor,
but only one, that of the white notes of
the piano called the major and so on
After the lamcntablc experience CT this
country, it is interesting TO know that
there is Il part of the world where the
buffalo Is not only not dying out, but in
creasing i'll numbers. Vast herds of these
animals are now running wild over GER
tain districts of northern Australia The
animals are said to be massive and well
grown, with splendid horns The first
buifaloes were landed ut Port Essington,
Queensland, about the year 1929.