, 1880-02-28


The Victoria Philosophical Institute dur
Ing the last eight years has increased at the
rate of LOO members a year.
A beautiful Roman villa has lately been
discovered in the course of excavations on
the site Of Roman settlement
A writer in Hnrtlpichc's Science Gossip
says thai, for painting Oh white satin, the use
of little white OF egg with the color will
serve both to prepare the surface and also to
give the painting soft-glazy appearance
Mr. Stanley. according to information re-
ceiyetI by the Lisbon Geographical Society,
had reached the last fall OF the Congo at
Yal'ala, and was preparing the installation Of
the first Belgian commercial stauon on the
right bank OF THAT river.
Tile subject. on which those competing for
the Walker prizes, offered by the Boston See
ciety uf Natural History, will write tins
wear. is: s.Thc Evidences OF the Extension
Of Tertiary Deposits Seaward Along the
Coast Of Massachusetts,"
A simple and usually successful mode OF
extracting needle or any piece or stee1 or
iron that has broken Oft in the flesh is by the
application of 4 simple pocket-magnet- Iron
filings have a way Of imbedding themselves
in tile ere which detlcs almost every ordinary
means for their extraction. For their removal,
small, blunt pointed bar Of steel, well
nag1letized, will be found eAcellehL
Mr. Dillin, in q paper on the preservation
for twenty and twenty-five years III England
We're still In as good state OF preservatlon
as Wien first laid down. Creosoted piles
driven at Portsmouth, Eng, forty-tWo years
water-line4 and have outlasted sixteen sets
cut from the same timber, and driven IN the
same work, but which we're not creosoted.
The "damposcope is the name given by
its inventor to an instrument designed to
detect the presence Of fre-damp in mines
The principle embodied in tits that, when 4
tuning--fork is sounded and brought ~ near ar, q
will resound to the note Produced by the
fork. Ey this machine the fire-damp IN q
mine can be estimated to the amount OF 10
per cent It has already been adopted IN
Some Of the mines in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
An ancient mound, resembling the Aztec
discovered in Japan, A scientific examina-
tion of the remains that have been dug up
from it furnishes reason for believing that
cannibalism was practiced by the japanese
in prehistoric tines -. Ihs human o ooaes loa 1nae
evidence that the hesll upon them had been
cooked, and the marks still left upon the
joints are such as could have been made only
by human teeth.
The death at Ujiji is announced OF the
French explorer, Able Debaize- The Abbe
left Paris In March, Isle, with 9. subsidy Of
to cross Africa from Zanzibar to the west
coast BE reached Lake Tanganyika in
March Of last year, after an unusually rapid
and favorable journey He Intended to es-
tab1istl depots at the north end Of the lake,
and had started on his Journey; but was so
badly treated by his followers that he re-
turned .lowncast to Ujiji, where he died.
Mr. G. Browne Goode will nave charge Of
the representation to be made by the United
States Mt the coming International Fish
Cultrrists' Exhibition, to be held 1T Berlin in
April 1t is Prof Bair,l's intention to have 4
complete series Of models of the apparatus
and vessels employed by the United States
Fish Commission for the artificial propaga.
tion and transportation Of fish, full! series OF
the United States, and /, handsome exilibi-
ton Ut the fur-seal fisheries, which will be
made BIZ the Alaska Commercial Company.