Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-11-21
THE PATENT CAT.

The inventor and proprietor of the patent
cat exterminator, young and rising genius
living in Ohio, has published in the C2eaveLand
Leader lot of complimentary testimonials
appreciative of his remarkable invention. We
extract the following:
"We have been using for week past re-
cent invention of Cleveland mechanic which
is nothing more than sheet iron cat with
cylindrical attachments and steel claws and
teeth. A bellows inside, swells the tail at
will to belligerent size, and a tremulo at
tachment causes, at the same time, the patent
cat to emit..all the noises of which the human
catis capable. When you want fun, wind up
your cat and place him on the roof. Every
cat within half mile hears him, girds on his
armor and salles forth. Fortunately, fifty or
one hundred attack him at once. No sooner
does the patent cat feel the weight of an as
sailant, than his teeth and claws work with
lightning rapidity. Adversaries within six
feet are torn to shreds. Fresh battalions come
on to meet similar fate, and in an hour, sew
eral bushels of hair, toe-nails and iddle.strings
alone remained .-Balimore Sun.
"No 6rst-class printing Office, with roof
fiat enough to afford battle for infuriated
felnes, should be without one."-T Tflton.
ut has saved more than $4,000 worth of
boot. Jacks in this city alone, and mince pie
or can Of preserves goes further in my family
now than it did before the war;. NJ, May
or Of Chicago.
"How my family can do without one any
more than "Dolly Varden," is a wonder to
NEE. Cady Stanton.
"Send me FIVE hundred (500) at once, G..
O. D., with extra bellows and powerful tone
to participate in the Jubilee "-P. Gilmore
'The roof of our office was covered with
cats four ranks deep until we placed two of
the "Iron Thomas CATS in position. Not a
cat has been seen since, and we have sold bo-
logna sausage meat enough to buy three fonts
oftype. Every young man going west should
take few of these cats with him" ."-H. G., in
Tribune editorial.
81 have used the patent cat with much sue
cess in my family. My mother-in-law has
been visiting US for the last six months. Night
before last l wound up the patent cat and sat
him under her bed. At his first howl she
leaped from the couch and yelled Scat and
at the same time stabbing at him with an um-
brella. l can hardly write for emotion; but
my dear mother-in-law will not take meals
with US for some time to come All there is of
her has been basted together, but her spirit is
broken. Enclosed find the money for twenty
FIVE more cats, aud also send new claws for the
old one as the dlady was tough" brigham
Young.
We might extend these testimonials but it
is useless. The manufacture of cats will soon
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business interests of the growing city. In the
mean time, strangers passing through Cleve-
land, and all who are interested in the exter-
mination of the cat tribe, are invited to ex-
anime into the merits of this great discovery.
Ras~ A Jersey paper tells very interesting
story of a little boy in that State. He was
climbing an apple-tree, and when upon the
topmost limb he slipped and fell to the ground.
He was picked up and carried into the house
in an insensible condition. After watching
by his bedside through many weary hours,
his mother perceived signs of returning con-
sciousness. Leaning over him, she asked if
there was anything she could do for him, now
that he began to feel better. Should she bathe
his forehead, or change his pillow, or fan him ?
Was there anything that he wanted? Open
ing his eyes languidly, and looking at her,
the little sufferer said : eyes; 1 want pair
ofpants with pocket behind" Heg got them.
s9- In the fall of II was travelling in
Missouri. While sitting at the table at the
Pickett House, Butler Bates, hog drover,
stalked in and took his seat. He sat there
awhile without saying anything, and finally
asked the girl in waiting if she had any bald
headed butter. The girl was astonished, and
said, in tone that indicated that she was
angry: "What do you mean by bald-headed
butter?" 81 mean" replied the drover, "but-
ter without hair in it." The table came near
upsetting with the roars of laughter.
aa" A railway car in which were bright
little maiden and her mother came rushing
into the Central Depot, New York city, the
other day, and there engines were footing
hideously, hackmen bowling, and small boys,
of dirty and iendish aspect, were shouting
"Morning PapersT Is it any wonder that
the little girl huddled up to her mother and
inquired with terrified awe: "Mamma, is this
hell ?"
sg~ William, who is an undersized clerk in
dry goods store, objects to being referred to
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