The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-05-20
The Cat.

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Cats are curious cattle. They are sell
fish. They are gTasping. When the at
tributes were parceled out among the
animals, the catgut the gift Of music
She got it by violins.
No one knows where cats come from,
but since the fashion of seal saeques
came In every body knows where most of
them go to. But this is kept profound
secret among the owners of seal gar
ments. They set the seal of secrecy up
on it. Purr-haps they are wise.
The cat has nine iyes-that is to say
she lives nine times longer than she
ought.
This suggests problem, which lovers
of mathematics are those, alas |
who love them-can puzzle over.
If it take nine tailors to make one live
man, and nine lives to make one cat,
what does catamount to? GORE
spondents sending answers will please
inclose Scent stamp, not for pubIca-
ton, but for the use of the compiler of
this authentic history.)
The cat is not subject to tax. Efforts
have been made to insert clause In the
Dog law to include cats, but thus far
the cats have inserted their own claws.
Not only do they escape tax, but the
taxidermist: also. They do their own
stufing. gss
At the time of the food Father Noah
endeavored to keep the cat out of the
ark, but the cat got her back up and
passed in under the guise of camel.
Until very recently, every ship has
since that time carried cat.
Many stories are told of the seafaring
cat, including nine-tails, which are often
red.
In Egypt cats were regarded as sacred
animals. To kill one was an ofense pun
ishable with death.
The cat remembers this, and to this
day takes fence on the slightest provo
cation. 1859
Formerly, when cat died, all the in
mates of the house went into mourning
Now the household go out into the night
and erect bootiacks to its memory. They
don't wait till morning.
The Egyptians worshiped cat-headed
deity, and mariners, who cling to old
superstitions, still set up cat-heads in
their ships.
The Egyptian cat lived in a dark age !;
the modern cat closes her existence in q
sausage.
Cat-skins were favorite dress trim
ming in the middle ages, whence arose
the proverb that a skinned cat is better
than it looks.
The cats kin are now exclusively used
as 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 willows.
Cats were introduced into England
from the Island Of Cyprus. They are
not found in the cypress now; only on
willows.
In ancient Wales a cat fetched the
same price as calf. Her modern walls
now frequently fetch whole cowhide in
the shape of boot leather.
Cats are Baptists by profession, but
those who indulge their predictions
during early kittenhood seldom survive.
Cats are very mewsical. They are all
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vorite composition.
Nox is their especial deity. Knocks
always accompany their concerts.
Cats do not open their eyes until 8
days old. Do they ever close them
again? Nein. Throw boot-jack at a
sleeping eat and you will be convinced
of this.
Oats are supposed to be accompIices
of witches, which is probably because
they love the darkness rather than light.
It is said that cats are cleverer than
dogs and more easily trained. They
are great pedestrians, and can make
more laps in given time than any other
animal.
They are generally healthy, notwith-
standing we hear of " the cat ill upon
thousand hills"
A great many more things might be
said about the cat.
But silent be, it is the cat !-Boston
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