FELINE INGENUITY.
Short—I thought you were going to drown that cat?
Long—Well, they say a cat has nine lives, but this one has twenty, I think. Why, I actually put that cat into a tub of water and tied a brick round its neck; and what do you think?
Short—Goodness knows.
Long—Well, this morning when I went to look at the tub the cat had swallowed all the water and was sitting on the brick.—Answers.
AN UNLIMITED EXPRESS.
“Trains in the South travel awfully slow,” said Robert Hathaway, of Atlanta, at the Plankinton House, “but it’s a base libel to say that conductors will stop trains to accommodate passengers who wish to pick flowers by the wayside.
“I was riding on a Central Georgia train about forty miles out in Campbell County, when the train came to a standstill. I could tell the train had stopped because I was looking out of the window at the time.
“When the conductor came through I asked the cause of the stop, and found it was a cow on the track. We started up, and had rumbled along several miles when it came to another stop.
“‘What’s the matter now,’ I called to the conductor, out of the window, ‘another cow?’