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bed, had left a strong brown jug on the dresser, 

 with a drain of milk in the bottom of it After 

 everyone had retired, Puss commenced prowHng 

 about, and, attracted by the milk in the bottom of 

 the jug, put her head into it. Now, though the 

 top of the jug was wide enough for the Cat to put 

 her head through, it was not so wide but what it 

 required a slight pressure for her to get her head 

 into it. When the milk was lapped, however, she 

 could not get her head out again, for it required 

 some one to hold the jug, to enable her to do so. 

 In the meantime, all being in bed and asleep, the 

 Cat in her terror jumped about, knocking its head, 

 with the jug on it, against the tables and chairs, 

 and upon the kitchen floor. Hence the alarming 

 and unaccountable disturbance. 



I clip this from an American paper : — 

 " During the progress of the war I was sitting 

 one day in the office of Able and Co.'s wharf-boat 

 at Cairo, Illinois. At that time a tax was collected 

 on all goods shipped south by private parties, and 

 it was necessary thal!»duplicate invoices of ship- 

 ments should be furnished to the collector before 

 the permits could be issued. The ignorance of 

 this fact by many shippers frequently caused them 

 much annoyance, and invoices were ofttimes made 



