ve he got up again and resumed an upright attitude, on account of
ants. It is a picnic for a nest of ants to partake of a human being who
has lost his or her trousers, as the case may be, and he followed the
cow, saying "co-boss" in the most pitiful accents that were ever used by
a Janesville man.

The cow looked around, and as she did so the pants caught on a sapling
and were pulled off her horns and dropped upon the ground. The pious
man looked upon this as a direct interposition of Providence, and he was
sorry he swore. He got into his trousers so quick that it made his head
swim, and just as the crowd at the asylum had come down to the gate
to see what strange looking calf was following the cow home, the man
started on a run for town, leaving the shirt with the cow.

The people at the asylum have the shirt, and it has the initials of the
man worked in the neck band, but he will never call for it. One sleeve
is chewed off, and the bosom is rent with conflicting emotions and cow's
teeth. The man sells nails and skimmers with a far off expression, and
don't want cows to run at large any more.

THE QUESTION OF CATS.

The New York Humane Society has at last taken action, looking to the
destruction of improper, immoral and friendless cats, and agents are
at work capturing the nocturnal prowlers, and turning them over to the
proper authorities of the society, who cause them to be killed.

This action cannot but be favorably commented upon by all loyal
citizens, and as the Milwaukee Humane Society is a branch of the New
York society, it is only reasonable to suppose that it will not be long
before our home society will be engaged in cat extermination. There is
a great field here for such a society, and applause awaits the humane
people who have banded together to put these cats out of their misery.

We know there are those who will say that cats are not in misery when
they give vent to those soul-stirring passages from unwritten opera,
under the currant bushes, but we cannot but think that they are in the
most crushing misery which it would be a charity to put them out of, or
they would not chew their words so, and expectorate imaginary tobacco
juice, mingled with hair and profanity. We know that human beings when
they are enjoying each others society do not groan, and scratch, and
Samantha around with their backs up, and their eyes sot, and run up
board fences, and it is a safe inference to draw that these after