The Cat on its Last Legs.
There is an old saying which says that “Care killed the Cat.” Now, whether this can be proved true in the case of the decease of any common cat of nine lives, there may be very possibly a reasonable doubt. But with regard to the now dying cat-o’-nine-tails, there is not the slightest question that the proverb has been verified. It cannot be denied that, in our Army and in our Navy, a proper care for the well-being of the men has killed the Cat.
Mr. Justice Punch on Consolidation of the Law.
Mr. Sleigh announces another “Handy-book” of Law, called Personal Wrongs and Legal Remedies. The Law seems gradually being bottled off out of the old-fashioned treatise-cask into these little handy-book-quarts and pints, first introduced by Lord St. Leonards. But we will help Mr. Sleigh to a still further condensation of his subject:-
“Personal wrongs” – bad enough.
“Legal remedies” – still worse.
A PLEASANTRY FOR THE POPE.
A distinguished foreign personage, being asked by an Englishman, if he intended to take away the Pope’s possessions, replied with pleasant naïveté, “I cannot tell, mon ami; mais I may take Vat-i-can!”
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