The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-07-29

and aperture of the body suddenly
flies open and the cold air rushes in
and closes the scene, whence has aris-
Gu the medical term, "~catalepsy." See
vol. 96, page Al, of Escalapius' Treat
Use on c%atalepsy, see also the great
modern work entitled, Gums Do
nestle Medicine, upon the same sub
jcct. These two eminent authors diff
fer slightly in their views, but we, as
we'll as the medical fraternity, gener-
ally adopt the views shot offby Gum.
From the different names given this
animal by different nations, the ex-
t%ensive variety of its species, and its
universal f%ierceness in war has arisen
our word category, or the word being
analysed, a CORY cat. From this anal
ysis of the word you can see at a
glance how beautiful is the stru cture
of our mother ~tongue-how its single
words are pictures of ideas-how
thoughts in its chariot of language
may float like gossamer sheen in the
morning sunlight, or compressed by
logic to greatest compactness may rat
tie like thunderbolts around the
world. What a lesson there is in that
word category! By further reference
to ancient history and customs we
will show you how our beautiful
mother tongue expanded and how
symmetrical it grew.
In very early times when the cat
was worshipped as a sacred animal,
Gas cows now are in Birmah, IIindos-
tan and BelochestanO they were fire.
quently carried in front of the army
when it was about to meet the enemy,
as a talisman or guerdon of success.
To capture the sacred cat was disas-
ter to the loser, to the captor success
and immortal honor. 1t is related by
Fluvius Confucus Anabasis, and con-
firmed by his cotemporary, Flatulen-
tus Ventus Stump Caudle, that at the
famous battle of the cowpasture, the
capture of the sacred cat from the
hosts Of Terra del Fuego, by Gen.
Roderick Rumper, threw the hosts of
Fuego into dire confusion, and they
were annihila'ed. Rumper in con-
veying the tidings of that great victo-
ry to the then ruling Emperor, Ulys-
SEES Sartoris Casey, used tie words
now made immortal, ''vENI vIDIvICI,"
and concluded his dispatch by saying,
81 herewith send you the cat as a tro-
phy," from whence is derived our
| English word, catastrophe.
The celebrated Chinese writer on
Natural History, Wah Ming Pan, says
cats have sharp hooked too nails, as
all can bear testimony who have tried
them. These enable cats to climb
trees. Cats often show their agility
In doing so. Their toe nails are bent
the wrong way to enable them to hold
back we'll in coming down; but here
we sec evidences of creative fore
thought in endowing cats with nine
lives. If they fall in coming down
and knock four or five lives out of
them they have enough left to sport
on for years. Cats are very carnivo-
rous. 1t has been thought by some
close observers that the bear is the
most carnivorous of all animals, but
We are satisfied from close observa-
lion that cats are more carnivorous
than bears.
Both men and women when cross
ed in love are apt to make pets of cats.
When love-sick Edwin wandered off
into the woods after Angelina Tilted
him he took a kitten along. lie built
a hut, and the poet in describing his
room, says:
"Arcund in sympathetic mirth
l.. It's tricks the kitten tries;
The cricket chirrups on the hearth,
The cracking fagot flies"
From which we infer that it was a
regular trick kitten, and was doubt
less making it warm for the cricket.
Angelina, when she found Ed. was
really gone and had taken tho kitten,
4 followed him off through the woods
and finally married him and got her
kitten back. What will a girl not do
for a pet kitten with a blue ribbon a.
round its neck.
Some cats are very peculisr in their
habits. 1t is related upon good au-
thority that q certain cat in Schow-
hogan, Maine, used to make regular
trips of sixteen miles, out and back
each day. Henry Hill knew the cat
we'll and takes great pleasure in ex-
pleaining to his friends the reason OF
its strange conduct.
Cats have also wonderful musical
faculties. In modern times the teach
er of vocal music used the tuning
fork to secure the proper pitch, but
in antediluvian times, as we learn
from the great Noah in his able work
on Navigation and Natural History
(see vol. IA, page 60, Riverside Ed.)
cats were used for the anne purpose.
The teacher having obtained a cat of
the proper size, would place its body
firmly under his left arm while with
his right hand he would MANIPULATE
it's tail. The tail of the cat, history
informs US, under the control of a
skiliful operator will pro duce the en-
tire eight octaves, and these eight
notas or chords added tn tbn ODnrotor