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Show The Cat Question Settled. The question why cats fall on their feet was solved Wednesday to the satisfaction satis-faction i the French Academy of Sciences, Sci-ences, r rioe Lovy gave a mathematical mathemat-ical demonstration that a cat can by certain movements of its body turn round in the air without external assistance. as-sistance. His theorem is that a natural system can mvot on and bv itself, if certain of its points have, in comparison compari-son with ethers, such a degree of liber-r liber-r as to describe curves without hampering ham-pering the movement of the other point-cf point-cf the system. A gymnast, writing tc The Temps, gives the same explanation. Just as an acrobat, he says, turns a tomersault in the air by pressing his thin on his breast and his knees on his thorax, thus making the center of gravity grav-ity pass from one point to another, so he cat, a born acrobat, is equally expert. ex-pert. Paris Letter. A Tyrannical Landlord. According to Mr. Labouchere in London Lon-don Truth, the Duke of Beaufort, one of the most tyrannous of the landlorda of England, assumes to dictate all the affairs of the town of Stoke-G iff ord His grace took objection to the election of Admiral Close as a churchwarden and served notices to quit on the tenant farmers who voted for him. The duke afterward announced that he would withdraw the notices only on condition that the admiral resigned. In order that the farmers should not suffer, the admiral admi-ral did resign. It now appears that Ad-I Ad-I miral Close himself was a tenant of the duke, and he also received a notice to quit his house, which has just expired. He has practically boon evicted becausr he was chosen churchwarden withooa dac-al approval. |