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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2246, 19 July 1870, Page 2

“ Professor,” said a student in pursuit of knowledge concerning the habits of animals, “ why does a cat while eating turn her head first one way and then the other?” “For the reason,” replied the professor, “that she cannot turn it both ways at once.” A Connecticut Yankee missed two pounds of butter. The maid, however, had not qnly stolen it, but fastened the theft upon a kitten-averring, moreover, she caught her in the act of finishing the last morsel. The wily Yankee immediately put the kitten into the scales, and found it to weigh but a pound and a half ! Governor Wise was lately shown a photograph of himself, of which he said, “ I sup.. pose it is intended for me. It looks as if I was drunk, sleepy, or pitying a kitten.” It is related of King John of England that the tomb of one who had violently opposed him being shown him, he was advised by one of his courtiers to destroy it. “ God forbid !” was the reply. “I would that all my enemies were as honourably buried,"