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New Zealand Times, Volume LVX, Issue 3094, 3 April 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)

C.if 3 can smell even during sleep. If it piece of meat be placed immediately in front of a sleeping cat’s nose, the nostrils will begin to work ai the scent is received, and an instant later the cat will wake up. The belief tlia,t it .is not good to eat oysters in any month the name of which does not contain an Eis very ancient. It is to be found in a work published in 1599, and the origin il sentence reads as follows: “It is unseasonable and unwholesome in a'l months tl*s have not an II in their t-i eat an oyster, A flat.) that was discovered lately in an Egyptian tomb was in so good a state of preservation that it eould bo played upon as well as if it had been made this century, instead of three thousand years ago. What is equally interesting is that while the sound differs from the flutes of to-day, its notes are said to be baaed upon the rules of the modern scale.