up, seizes him by the throat with a merci- | other rewards than the sensation of triless grasp which he seldom relaxes till he tastes blood. 66 Next to tiger-hunting, there is no sport in India which more powerfully commends itself to men who can ride and employ some muscular force of the right arm, than the chase of the wild boar. The operations of the ploughman have naturally contracted the feeding-ground of the swine; but even in its circumscription there is still a wide field for 'pig-sticking." As long as there exists a sugar-cane Khet (plantation), and animals enough are left to breed from, there will never be a scarcity of sounders of hog. In the west and south-east of India | are found the hunting-grounds where the porcine game swarms, and the Arab is the best, because the most surefooted, horse that can be mounted in pursuit of that particular kind of game. Armed only with the spear, urging the horse to speed in the chase, and employing nerve in encountering the boar's charge, the sportsman will find his blood healthily stirred and his mind exhilarated in the gallant pastime. And it is not without umph and the tension of the muscles; the flesh of the mighty boar is not altogether despicable even in India, and his skull, with formidable tusks protruding, forms an enviable ornament in the halls of sportsmen at home. The fox has supplied British poets with themes for song for many generations; no better proof can be offered of the popularity of the boar than the fact of his having equally inspired the versifiers of the East. We can count upon our fingers at least a dozen songs of a very high order of merit. Much has been written upon the subject of the large game of India, but the subject is still far from being exhausted. The deer of the Himalayas, the rhinoceros, the buffalo, and the wild elephant, would each supply a theme of much interest. The destruction of the last-named animal has recently been prohibited by the Government, for his value, when he has been caught and tamed, more than counterpoises the mischief of his existence in the destruction of trees, huts, and human life. PROF. WALTENHOFEN finds that when a card is coated with glycerine on one side, and points connected with conductors leading to the coatings of a Leyden jar, or the terminals of a Ruhnkorff coil, are placed in contact with opposite sides, but not exactly opposite each other, the positive in contact with the coated side, the perforation by the discharge will invariably be opposite to the positive point instead of the negative, as in Lullin's experiment. We give this on the authority of the Telegraphic Journal for the 15th of August. 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