Show A CATS FALL gracely inquire why pun alwy land on her feet the french academy of sciences spent almost an entire day last week profoundly discussing tho question why do cats fall on their feet M maroy read a paper and submitted CO photographs depicting puss ia various attitudes while falling about alvo feet tho first showed the cat with feet in air malting a series of desperate appeals for succor then a somersault was turned with more or less grace finally tho feline reached tho ground ou ita four paws and then with tail aloft bolted into a sate retreat a great deal of learned discussion as to the causo of tho phenomenon M marey thought the problem had been triumphantly solved by puss in the first three feet of the descent M milne edwards M berthelot and others maintained that the cat uses the hand or other object causing the fall as a leverage for turning round but this did not with the early photographs in which there is nd sign of rotation M marcel deprez suggested that intestinal movement might account for the phenomenon no menon M marcy promised to continuo his experiments and to prevent the possibility of leverage by tying the cat and thea letting pussy drop paris correspondent |