FEMALE INCONSISTENCY.

Evening Star, Issue 10399, 21 August 1897, Page 4 (Supplement)

FEMALE INCONSISTENCY.

_ The operation of the feminine mind sometimes—perhaps always—passes understanding. An Evanston spinster who presides over a fine residence in that classic suburb sent for the ostler the other day and gave him instructions to drown a litter of four half-grown kittens which had become somewhat troublesome. Three of the kittens were easily captured, but the fourth ran under the barn, and the ostler, in trying to dislodge it with a pole, unintentionally broke one of the animal’s legs. Thereupon three of the kittens were given their quietus in the lake, but the fourth was taken into the house and tenderly cared for with splints and bandages. “But why not let me put this critter out of misery, mum, like the rest of’em?” asked the feline executioner. “ What! ” exclaimed Miss Prim. “ Drown a kitten ia that condition ? Never ! We’ll doctor her up a little, and she’ll be around again all right in a few days.” “ But what are you going to do with her then, mum ? ” inquired the perplexed ostler. “ Well, after that,” said the spinster, with a sigh, “I suppose you’ll have to drown her.”— Exchange.

A little boy, hearing someone remark that nothing was quicker than thought, said : “I know something that is quicker than thought.” “What is it, Johnny?” asked his pa. “ Whistling,” said Johnny. “When I was in school yesterday I whistled before I thought, and got licked for it, too.” • The oyster is one of the strongest creatures on earth. The force required to open this dainty shellfish is more than 900 times its weight.