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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10664, 31 January 1898, Page 3

Although there is a breed of cats without tails, known as Manx cats, the Isle of Man has no peculiarity in its climate that produces cats without tails, the feature being hereditary through accident in the first place, and common cats are born there with caudal appendages as luxurious as those elsewhere, unless crossed with the tailless bieed : there is then uncertainty as to the latter end of the product. ,k "And you . were in the track of the storm?" was asked of the excited farmer who came in to the township with the intelligence. "Yes, ' sir," -he replied, "you can just conclude I were; everything was Wowed off my place, the crop,-the 'ouse, heven the bloomin'; stockyard, it hall went.' "What, nothing at all left?" was : the inquiry. " No, nothink at all. Oh! by the bye, 11 forgot; there was 1 EomethinOefl i that even tie storm couldn't shift." —: -' There is no better time to castrate pig: than when from four to six weeks of age. I is better done in the morning,' before the] are fed, and bowels are emptv. Make tlx incision well, down and straight, andabovi all things have a sharp knife. ' V Painless (John (Jdkk. — This prepara lion completely cures the most painful corns, har< or soft. . A few applications only required to deadei the pain.",' It is also most useful in remoring an; thickening of the epidermis or horny portion of thi s*iio. -i'FnlJ: directions attached to each bottle r.-Ic# One Shilling.—J-'Edson Chemist, Auckland