Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-11-30
POPULAR SCIENCE,
Churches lighted by electricity are
increasing in NUMBER

Churches lighted by electricity are
increasing in number.
Ten engines of tho Kansas City.
Fort Scott and Memphis Railway will
soon be furnished with electric head,
lights.
The Pope has ordered that st. I
Peters have an elevator that shall run
to tho dome, and will Introduce cleo
trio lights into the Vatican.
William ramsey is Chicago ianitor
who is said to be possessed of double
decked throat, with two separate aud
distinct voices. Ho can sing duet
all by himself.
Negotiations arc in hand between
the italian and Swiss Governments to
establish telephone communication
between Milan, Como and Lugano anu
other towns in Switzerland.
A new enemy of tho vine in France
is galley worm, or myriopod, which
hos been observed by NJ. Fontaine to
invade the buds in numbers ranging
from five to ten on bud, forming
balls of the size of small pea.
Such has been the growth of popu-
lar opinion in favor of the sudden die
position of the dead by heat that there
are now in the country eighteen incorfC
porated cremation societies, and dJn=o
ing the past ten years about three
thousand cremations have taken place.
It seems strange, both from iudivid-
ual and social conditions, that there
should be more suicides i'll Germany
than in other European countries. yet
SO itappears, the annual average being
about 2.7 to every 10, 000 persons. In
France it is 1877, in Austria 1.C3, i'll
England &c and i'll Italy .45.
OF the 1900 kinds of flowers grow
ing i'll Europe, only 400 arc o lifcrous.
Less than onc-fifth of tho white kinds
which number 119I-aro fragrant,
II of the ISL yellow kinds, ST of the
S23 red kinds, 81 Of the SOL blue
kinds, IL of the 30S violet-bluo kinds
and % of the 240 kinds with combined
colors.
Glassware cracks when placed in
hot water because, being poor con
ductor of heat, the outside becomes
hot and expands, while the interior is
still cool. The strain resulting from
this unequal expansion causes the
fracture. For this reason, thin glass.
which is quickly heated through, is
less likely to break than the thieka
heavy varieties.
a curious phenomenon has been dis
covered near Eddy, New Mexico. lii
Dark Canyon, about three miles from
Eddy, number of tunnels were run
in order to tap streams of water to get
n supply for the wnter works. Tho
water was found running in small
natural water pipes, made by the dc.
posit of lime from The water. The
whole space cut by the tunnels wax
found to be perforated with these lima
pipes.
NJ. Max Schiller is said to have dis
covered, i'll the joints of persons at
tackled with chronic articular rheuma.
tism, bacteria, which nro always iden-
teal in like cases These bacilli are
short and thick, having ut each end
bright grains which anilinc colors
make still more evident. The discov.
| crcr has been able to cultivate these
bacteria i'll bouillon, OH gelatine, OF
on piece of potato. Their culture
requires temperature of Mt least
twenty-five degrees, and darkness is
Indispensable. When shall We have
anti-rhcumatic vaccination?
At the level of the sea the pressure
of the atmosphere on The piston of an
engine is about fifteen pounds to the
square inch, but decreases ut higher
attitudes. AS this atmospheric pres.
sure must be overcome by the steam
pressure before any work can be done,
it is evident that the diminished mir
pressure of high attitudes moro work
can be obtained from II given pressure
of steam than Mt the sea level, or in
other words, nm equally effective
pressure OF steam can bc obtained with
the expenditure of loss fuel. The dif-
ference, however, is not great enough
to be of any practical Importance.