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The principal difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives. -- Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar.
April 20. -- The cyclone of 1892 killed and crippled hundreds of people; it was accompanied by a deluge of rain, which drowned Port Louis and produced a water famine. Quite true; for it burst the reservoir and the water-pipes; and for a time after the flood had disappeared there was much distress from want of water.