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I intended. My brother wheeled aronnd quickly and fired right 

 between the eyes of the now madly infuriated leopard. My bro- 

 ther's shot levelled the brute. With a wild death howl she rolled 

 over, and I, to make sure that the last breath was out of the beast, 

 fired a third time at her. She stretched out stone dead. 



She was a mighty beast — a noble specimen of the untameable 

 leopard. 



When measured it was found she was the biggest specimen of 

 her kind that had been killed in the vicinity within eight (8) years. 



So ended our hunting trip. We took the skin with us to Ceiba 

 and also the cubs. Two of the latter we disposed of in Ceiba, the 

 third we took with us intending to bring it to New York and pre- 

 sent to the Zoological Society. LTnfortunately it died on the voy- 

 age home. 



I now hold the skin of the leopard in my possession, made in- 

 to a beatiful rug. Thus ending the story in part of my hunting 

 trip to Honduras. 



EXTRACT FROM SULPHURIC ACID AND ALKALI. 



LUNGE. 



Arsenic is found rarely, and never in more than traces, in acid which 

 has been made from brimstone ; most of the latter material, by far, is 

 used where acid free from arsenic is wanted. On the other hand, 

 most kinds of pyrites contain arsenic ; and the acid obtained from them 

 is therefore arsenical, but in very different degrees, according to the 

 percentage of arsenic in the pyrites and to the mode of manufacture 

 (page 634, second edition, London, 1891). 



In most cases where sulphuric acid is employed, a small percentage 

 of arsenic is of no consequence ; for instance, in superphosphate, or in 

 sulphate of soda to be used for alkali, or in glass making. In the latter 

 case certainly most of the arsenic passes over into the muriatic acid, 

 and can be traced there. When the muriatic acid is used for generat- 

 ing chlorine, the arsenic does no harm ; for although it probably 

 passes over, or at any rate partly, into the chloride of lime it will only 

 occur in this as the insoluble and innocuous calcium arseniate. Much 

 more harm is caused by the arsenic in the sulphuric and muriatic acid 

 which is employed in the food industries : for instance, in the manu- 

 facture of starch-sugar, in the formation of molasses, for pressed yeast, 

 for washing the regenerated char of sugar-works, etc. A. W. Hofman 



