To the Editor of the "Norra-Cytxa Darry News."
Sir,—No, this letter has no connexion whatever with Japanese! menus.
I am writing to you, as an oracular authority on the habits and customs of the common household or garden Cat, seeking information. I want to know why, a Cat immediately becomes domesticated in winter if its feet are thoroughly spread with butter and e, she, or it, is placed in front of the fire.
Anyone who has attempted to! transplant an adult Cat from one house to another knows what happens: this is even celebrated in the! song—''And the Cat Came Back.''! But when the feet of said Cat are thoroughly spread with Daisy; Brand, butter, the membranes between the toes being well anointed, the beastie is content to stay! put, and by the time it has freed: its pedal extremities of the mess and has groomed its facial ap-! pondages, its affections are trans-! ferred to the new fireside, whence! it never again has desire to wander.
Again I ask of you most humbly, Mr. Oracle, Why?
I am, ete., P.S.—In all due deference, Sir, should you in your wisdom be un-! able of your own knowledge to answer, could I beg of you to refer the question to the editor of the new Science Magazine?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.