The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-11-20
evening state So,traat,
THURSDAY EVENG. NOV. 20, 1877
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

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A disciple Of Darwin thinks that if thu
same care were taken to develope in apes
the qualities OF honesty, benevolence
&c., that is bestowed upon the education o.
dogs, startling results would be attained
or shown to be attainable. In support Of
this theory it is asserted that monkeys
manifest a tender care for their dead, as
was shown on a certain occasion when the
head of monkey tribe piteously besought
q sportsman for the body of one of his
followers killed by the sportsman. The
problem now is how many generations it
would take to develop the monkey out of
his diabolical mischievousness into honesty
or benevolence.
AN extraordinary adhesive paste, USE
full for leather, cloth or paper, may be
made, according to Sieburger, as follows:
Four parts Of glue are well softened in fif-
teen parts of cold water, then moderately
!, heated till the solution is accomplished,
when sixty-iive parts more of boiling
water are stirred in. In another vessel
thirty parts of starch paste are mixed with
twenty parts of cold water to form uni
form fluid. Into this this boiling solution of
glue is poured, stirring continually, the
heat being kept up. After cooling, ten
drops of carbolic acid are added, and the
paste is preserved in close bottles to pre-
vent evaporation. a8 ftsu A
According to DR.. Fritsch, the discov-
cry has lately been made of lacustrine
dwellings in the vicinity Of Leipsic, as the
resul; tf certain engineering operations
undertaken to regulate the course of tie
river E's:er. After passing through
series OF layers at a certain depth, the
workmen found series of oak piles
pointed below and decomposed above, and
supporting certain number of oak trunks
placed horizontally and on the same level
with these were found certain lower jaws
and teeth Of oxen, fragments of antlers,
broken bones of various lnammifers,
shells of an Anodon, fragments of pot
terry, two polished stone hatchets, etc.
The fungus show at the Royal Horti-
cultural society, given in London on Octo-
Der l was a great success /; never has |
there been a greater or better arranged dis |
play of these plauts, classified under the |
two sections of "edibleO and poisonous" |
A new economical use for this class of |
plants was indicated by the Rev. Mr..
Berkeley, who introduced cap made out |
of the beaten out interior mass of poly-
fo7us fomentarius, the amadou or German
finder of commerce, which he described as
both warm and light. 1t is stated that
large use is made in Hungary Of this mate
rial for caps and waistcoats, and it is also
used for caulking boots. T
7 The best time for painting the exterior
of buildings is late in autumn or during the
winter. Paint then applied will endure
twice as long as when applied in early
summer, or in hot weather. In the for
mer it dries slowly and becomes hard, like
q glazed surface, not easily affected after
ward by the weather, or worn off by the
beating of storms. But in very hot
weather the oil in the paint soaks into the
wood at once, as into sponge, leaving the
lead nearly dry, and nearly ready to crum-
BILE of. This last difficulty, however,
might be guarded against, though at an |
expense, by first going over the
surface with raw oil. BY painting in cold
weather, one annoyance might certainly be
escaped. namely. the collection of small
flies on the fresh paint. +