Among the various private likes and Aislikes which are revealed by the fierce light of Society journals which now beats on every throne, it has been discovered by The ('town" that Queen Alexandra has " fondness for cats.
There are some people, women parti-calorly, to whom cats are s0 antipathetic that they can detect the presence of one without even seeing it. Thereare others to whom life without cats is incomplete and Queen Alexandra belongs to the latter class. Her cattery (the word appears to bea genuine oncin use among cat-lanciers and not a comic invention) includes fifty animals; of which, bow-only five ey six are admitted to intimacy with her Majesty. In Buck-ham Palace there is said to bea special department known as the cats' hospital where ocessionsl myal tance to attend on the royal farourities and comb and brush them once a day. But of all her cats there January 30. la one which Queen specially favours—
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