Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-05-01
The Patent sheet-Iron Cat.

1t will be rememb bered that some time
since we noticed reportorially an inven-
ton of a young man residing in this
city, which was termed the Patent
Sheet-Iron Cat and was designed es.
pecially for the destruction of the com
mon feline serenaders which infest all
settled communities, and render life a
bore, if not at times positive torment.
Little did the inventor of the patent cat
think, as he fastened the last rivet in the
tail of his remarkable conception, that
he was comforting benefit upon man
kind of equal Importance with those of
the velocipede, the Dolly Warden, or
the potato bug gpulverizer. But such was
the case, and the favorable manner in
which the press of the country (who are
so slow to praise and quick to condemn
fraud and worthless imitations), united
in favorable notices of the patent cat,
proves that the latter has filled vacan.
cy in the Patent Office reports that has
long remained untitled.
From Boston to San Francisco, come
complimentary illusions to this inven-
ton, and scarcely day passes but that
the inventor does not receive letters of
inquiry from men of note, from invalids
and nervous people, from capitalists and
others, all seeking more detailed infor-
nation concerning the mechanical won.
der, and asking for samples, and terri
torial, State and County rights to manu-
facture and sell the same.
We are requested by the patentee to
state that owing to the rise in sheet-lron,
and the striking among the miners, ne
has not been able to supply the home de-
mand for the iron cat, aud has utterly
refused to export any quantity until the
close of the present year. Arrange
ments have been made with one of our
largest manufacturing establishments,
| by which one hundred cats can be turn
out by the first of next month, and if
there is no marked decrease in the num-
Der of Toms and Tabbies at the end of
six months, the capacity of the works
will be doubled, as stock company has
been formed, known as the Anti-Cat and
Fiddle-string Company of Cleveland.
Only three hundred of the patent cats
have been sold up to the present date,
but in no case have they failed to give
complete satisfaction. We subject few
notices of the press and testimonials:
"We have been using for week past
recent invention of Cleveland me-
chanic, which is nothing more than a
sheet iron cat, with cylindrical attach
ments and steel claws and teeth. 1t is
worked by clock-work. A bellows in
side swells the tail at will to belliger-
ent size, and in a tremulo attachment
causes at the same time the patent cat
to commit all the noises of which the
genuine cat is 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 sallies
forth. Frequently fifty or one hundred
attack him at once. No sooner does the
patent cat feel the weight of an assailant
than his teeth and claws work with
lightning rapidity. Adversaries within
six feet of him are torn to shreds. Fresh
battalions come on to meet similar fate,
and in an hour several bushels of hair,
toe.nails and fiddle-strings alone are to
be seen. > Baltimore San.
"No first,class printing-office with a
roof fiat enough to afford battle ground
for infuriated feines should be without
one T. TILToN."
"It has saved more than 100000
worth of bootjacks in this city alone,
and mince pie or can of preserves goes
further in my family than it did before
the war
j. NJ, Mayor of Chicago"
How any family can do without one
any more than Dolly Warden is won
der to me. f. CADY STANTON"
"Tbe roof of our office was covered
with cats four ranks deep until we placed
two of the iron Thomas cats in position.
Not cat has since been seen, and we
have sold Bologna sausage enough to
buy three fonts of the job type. Every
man going west should take few of
these cats with him." "H. G."
We might extend these testimonials,
but it is useless. The manufacture of
cats will soon be one of the most valu-
able additions TO the business interests of