Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-01-23
POPULAR SCIENCE.

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The distinguished physician, DIR. W.!
II. Burt, announces that water is The
great remedy for consumption. 4
Silk from paper pulp is niado smooth
aud brilliant, with about two thirds the
strength of ordinary silk aud about the,
sa.nc elasticity.
The famous Physick Garden In Chcl.
sea, England, whose preservation is now
matter OF discussion, has 10000 diff
ferent herbs and plants. Z
n permanent commercial museum. con.
tanning specimens of the natural products
and manufactures of Poland and bu-,
reau OF information for Russian and for
eign merchants, has been established at
Warsaw.
A grand turning cupola eight meters.
IN diameter 10 to be erected in the Yati-l
can Garden, IN Rome, Italy, for covering;
the Photographic equatorial instrument
which is to be used in connection With
mapping out the stars.
1t has hitherto been supposed that the
maximum depth of the Mediterranean
was l0,S75 feet deep between Sicily and |
Sardinia. Lieutenant Magnschi, of Italy,
has found depth of 49, $50 feet, be-
tween Malta and Gambia.
The effect of gum chewing has been
studied carefully by an expert. In gum
chewing the masseter muscles which
move the jaw are abnormally developed,
and the fatty substance which produces
fair, plump cheeks is deterioratcd.
Biologists assert that if the continents
and the bottom of tho ocean were graded
down to a uniform level the whole
world would be covered with water a
milo deep, SO much greater is the de- |,
preston of the ocean bed that the eleva-
ton of tho existing land.
A writer upon birds says that in the
fields and groves there arc MANY old
maids and bachelors who apparently
never had any induccmcnt to marry.
There is no doubt that the rivalry in
bird courtship is extremely keen, and tho
choice is deliberate one.
The jelly fish absorbs its food by
wrapping itself around the object which
it seeks to mako its own. The star fish
is even moro accommodating. Fasten-
ing itself to the body 1t wishes to feed
on, it turns its stomach inside out and
enwraps its prey with this useful organ.
An old manuscript volume of apotheca-
ries' lore and household recipes, believed
to date from about the time of Queen
Elizabeth, was discovered some years ago
among the papers of firm of chemists
In Newcastle, England, and litho.
graphed fac smile is soon to be pub
lished.
The woodpecter has n three. barbed
tongue like Fijian's spear, with which
it draws out the worm which il
has excited by its tapping. The clam
feeds with siphon, and the oyster with
Its beard. The tapeworm has neither
mouth nor stomach, but just lies along
and absorbs the already digested food
through its skin.
In one of the leading locomotive shops
there is now building IN engine with nm
enormous driving wheel, nine feet in cir
conference, which will be fixed in the
centre, in front of the boiler. Instead
OF ordinary axles the truck wheels will
have bicycle spindles, and experts claim
that tho large driving wheel will carry
along the train at over ninety miles nm
hour.
Clouds which arc luminous in The
darkness of moonless nights have been
attracting considerable attention in Eu-
rope, and number of photographs of
them have been secured this year in Ger
many. From comparisons of results OBJ
tanned at different observatorics, it ap.-
pears that these clouds have the extraordi-
nary height of five and half miles above
SEQ level.
It's proposed to use the. spectoscope
to determine whether cesspools, stables,
etc., drain into neighboring wells. A
solution of carbonate of chloride of ith-
ium is poured into the suspected sources
OF pollution In the neighborhood, and af-
ter a week or so the we'll water is exam
ined spectroscopically for lithium, which
can thus be detected even if the water;
holds In solution less than one pint in a
million.