V. ELECTRICITY, LIGHT, HEAT.  ETC.—­The Temperature of the Earth as shown by Deep Mines.

      New Arrangement of the Bichromate of Potash Pile.—­3
      figures.

      The Distribution of Electricity by Induction.—­1 figure.

      Electricity Applied to the study of Seismic Movements.—­Apparatus
      for the study of horizontal and vertical seismic
      movements, etc.—­8 figures.

      New Accumulators.—­3 figures.

      Industrial Model of the Reynier Zinc Accumulator.

      The History of a Lightning Flash.—­By W. SLINGO.

      Researches on Magnetism.

VI.  Natural history.—­The Giraffe.—­With engraving.

VII.  Medicine, and Hygiene.—­The Treatment of Cholera—­By
      Dr. H.A.  Rawlins.

      Temperature.  Moisture, and Pressure, in their Relations
      to Health.—­London deaths under 1 year in July, August,
      and part of September.

      Consumption Spread by Chickens.

      New Method of Reducing Fever.

VIII.  Miscellaneous.—­The Crown Diamonds of France at the
      Exhibition of Industrial Arts.

      A New Mode of Testing the Economy of the Expenses of
      Management in Life Insurance.—­By Walter C. Wright.

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THE GIRAFFE.

The spirited view herewith presented, representing the “Fall of the Giraffe” before the rifle of a sportsman, we take from the Illustrated London News.  Hunting the giraffe has long been a favorite sport among the more adventurous of British sportsmen, its natural range being all the wooded parts of eastern, central, and southern Africa, though of late years it has been greatly thinned out before the settlements advancing from the Cape of Good Hope.

[Illustration:  The fall of the giraffe.]

The characteristics of this singular animal are in some particulars those of the camel, the ox, and the antelope.  Its eyes are beautiful, extremely large, and so placed that the animal can see much of what is passing on all sides, and even behind it, so that it is approached with the greatest difficulty.  The animal when full grown attains sometimes a height of fifteen to seventeen feet.  It feeds on the leaves and twigs of trees principally, its immense length of legs and height at the withers rendering it difficult for the animal to graze on an even surface.  It is not easily overtaken except by a swift horse, but when surprised or run down it can defend itself with considerable vigor by kicking, thus, it is said, often tiring out and beating off the lion.  It was formerly almost universally believed that the fore legs were longer than the hinder ones, but in