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8. The manus of an adult pig with a well formed pollex. 
9. A silver fish with partly divided tail. 
10. A cat with only one kidney and one cornu of the uterus. 
11. A pup, one day old; with no tail, single cloacal opening 
and one kidney only one-fifth the size of the other.— Burr G. 
WILDER. 
Tue Derrus or Mip Ocean.—In her voyage from Teneriffe to 
St. Thomas the British Exploring Ship “ Challenger” sounded and 
dredged every other day. The soundings showed that a pretty 
level bottom runs off from the African coast, deepening gradually 
to a depth of 3,125 fathoms at about one-third of the way across 
to the West Indies. If the Alps, Mont Blanc and all, were sub- 
merged at this spot, there would still be half a mile of water above 
them. Five hundred miles farther west there is a comparatively 
shallow part, a little less then two miles in depth. The water then 
deepens again to three miles, which continues close over to the 
West Indies. At the deepest spots both on the east and west side 
of the Atlantic, the dredge brought up a quantity of dark red clay, 
which contained just sufficient animal life to prove that life exists 
at all depths. No difficulty was experienced in obtaining these 
deep-sea dredgings, and it was merely a question of patience, each 
haul occupying twelve hours. In depths over two miles little has 
been found, but that little was totally new.— Nature. 
A Cars Jump. — The following statement, of the distance 
leaped by a cat, is made by the Messrs. Sanford Brothers, of 
Ithaca, N. Y., who are not only reliable but accurate observers 
of the doings of animals. ‘ When our cat was about a year old, 
he was seen on several days to take position upon a show-case 
four feet high, and to watch a canary in a cage hanging from the 
ceiling eight feet from the case; the ceiling was eleven feet from 
the floor; and the cage an ordinary cylindrical one. One day, a8 
we were observing him thus engaged, he suddenly sprung at the 
cage and caught his claws upon it; his weight swung the cage up 
against the ceiling, spilling all the vessels, and terrifying the 
canary; after swinging to and fro several times, the cat dropped 
to the floor uninjured; we measured the distance from the top of 
the case to the cage and found it to be ten feet; so that the cat 
made an ascent of six feet in hs or upon an incline of nearly 
thirty-five degrees.” — B. G. Wit 
