Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-03-19
The Car.

Cats are curious cattle. They are selfish
They are grssping. When the attributes
we're parcelled ont among the animals, the
catgut the gift of music. She got it by yio-
lins
No one knows where cats como from ! but
since the fashion Of seal sacques came in,
everybody knows where most or them go 20
But this is kept profound secret among the
owners of seal garments. They set the seal
of secrecy upon it, PurrhaPs they are
wise
The cat has nine lives; that is 10 say
she lives nine times longer than she ought
This suggests problem, which lovers OF
mathematics-there are those, alas whc
love them-can puzzle over.
II it takes nine tailors to make one live
man, and nine lives to make one cat, what
does = catamount to2 Correspondents
sending answers will please enclose three
cent stamp,no; for publication, but for The
use Of the compiler of this authentic histo-
ry
The cat Ia not subject 10 tax. Efforts
have been made 70 insect q clause II the
dog law to include cats, but thus far tho
cats have inserted their own claws.
Not only do they escape tax, but the taxi
dermist also. They do their owa stsaing.
At the time of the food Father Noah en-
deavored to keep the cat out OF the aTk, but
the cat got her back up and passed in un-
der the guise Of camel
Until very recently every ship has siocs
that time carried Il cat.
Many stories are told OF the scaiaring cat,
including nine tails, which are often red
In Egypt cats were regarded as sacred an-
imals. To kill one was an offence punisha-
ble with death.
The cat remember, this, and to thus day
takes fence on the slightest proyocstion.
Formerly when cat died all the inmates
Of the house went into mourning. Now the
household 20 out into the night and erect
boot jacks - its memory They don't wait
till morning.
The Egyptian, worshipped a cat-headed
deity, and mariners who cling to old super
stitions, still set up cstheads in their ships
The Egyptian cat lived in dark age
the modern cat closes her existence In
sausage.
Catskins were fsyorite dress trimming
in the middle ages, whence arose the prov
erb that skinned cat IL better than 10
looks
The cats kin arc now exclusively used as
a trimming for back fences.
A catkin is young cat, and is great on
the spring In the spring she may be seen
among the topmost branches Of the viii
lows
Cats were introduced into England from
tho island of Cyprus. They are not found
in the cypress now; only on willows.
In ancient Wales cat fetched the same
price as a calf her modern walls DOW fre-
quently fetch whole cowhide in the shape
OF boot leather
Cats are Baptists by profession, but those
VINO indulge their prediction during early
kittenhood seldom survive.
Cats do not open their eyer dhhi nino
days old. Do they ever close them again 2
Nein. Throw boot jack at a sleeping cat
and you will be convinced Of this
Cats are supposed to be accomPlicc' Of
witches, which is probably because they
love the darknoss rather thln light.
CAts are very mewsical They are all
base singers. The nocturne ia their favor
ite composition.
NoI is theif especial diety. knocks al
ways accompany their concerts.
It is said that cats arc clevercr than dogs
and more easily trained. Thcy are great
pedestrians, and car make more laps in a
given time than aDy other animal.
They are very courageous, and always
come up 10 the scratch.
They are very frugal. You have seou
them chasing their tails in their cldeayors
to make both ends meet.
They are fond Of winter amusements.
You remember what the New England
Primer says,
The cat doth play, and after sleigh."
Tney are egenerally healthy, notwithstand-
ing we hear Of " the cat Ill upon a thousand
hills"
A great many more thing. might be said
about the cat