Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-01-11
THE CAT.


curious cattle. They are selfish. They
are grasping. When the attributes
were parched out among the snimils,
the catgut the gift of music She got
it by violins.
No one knows where cats come from,
but since the fashion of seal sacques
came in everybody knows where most
of them 20 to. But this is kept pro-
found secret among the owners of seal
garments. They set the seal of secrecy
upon it. Purr-haps they are wise.
The cat has nine lives-that is to
say she lives nine times longer than
she ought
This suggests problem, which low
ers of mathematics-there are those
alas who love them-can puzzle over.
If it takes nine tailors to make one
live man, and nine lives to make one
cat, what does q catamount to? (Cor-
respondents sending answers will please
inclose Scent stamp. not for publica-
tion, but for the use of the compiler of
this authentic history.)
This cat is not subject to tax. Eff
forts 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, out the
taxadermist also. They do their own
stufing.
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 10 under the guise of camel.
Until very recently, every ship has
since that time carried cat.
Many stories are told of the seafar-
ing cat, including nine-tsils, which are
often red.
In Egypt cats were regarded as ga
cred animals. To kill one was IN Of
fense punishable with death.
The cat remembers this. and to this
day takes fence on the slightest pro-
vocation.
Formerly, when q cat died, all the
inmates of the house went into mourn
ing. Now the household 60 out into
the night and erect booUscks to its
memory. They don't wait till morn
ing.
The Egyptians worshipsd . cst-head-
cd deity, and mariners, who cling to
the old superstitions, still set up cat
heads In their ships.
The Egyptian cat lived In dark
age the modern cat closes her existence
in sausage.
Cat-skins were favorite dress-trim-
ming in the middle ages, whence arose
the proverb that o skinned cat Ia 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 sland of Cyprus. They are
not found in the cypress now only on
willows.
In ancient Wales q cat fetched the
same price as q calf. Her modern
walls now frequently fctch a whole
cownide in the shape of boot leather.
Cats are Babtists by profession. but
those who indulge their predictions
during early kittenhood seldom sur
vive
Cats are very mewsical. They are
all base singers. The nocturne is
their favorite composition
Nox is their especial deity. Knocks
always accompany their concerts.
Cats do not open their eyes until
days old Do they ever close them
again? Nein. Throw boot.jack at
a sleeping cat and you will be con-
vinced of this.
Cats are supposed to be accomplices
of witches, which is probably because
they love the darkness rather than
light.
1t is said that cats are cleverer than
dogs and are more easily trained. They
are great pedestrians, and can make
more laps in q given time than any
other animal.
They are generally healthy, notwith-
standing we hear of" "the cat i'll upon o
thousand hills
A great many more things might be
said about the cat.
But silent be, it is the cat Boston
Transcript.
A HUNDRED VICTIMS OF
WHISKY.
The Corwin landed on st. Lawrance
Island, having orders to investigate
the wholesale starvation of the natives
At the first village at which they land
ed all were dead. also at the second,
were 54 dead bodies were counted,
nearly all full-grown males. At an
other place $50 persons-men, women
and children-were dead. At the
next settlement IL dead bodies, and
at the following 80 were found. All
the inhabitants on the north side Of
the island where whisky-traders sold
liquor, are dead--not one escaping.
The general starvation occurred two
wears ago last winter. Since then the
presence of the Corwin in the Arctic
has broken up his inhuman whisky
trading The empty whisky kegs are
seen strewn all about. The total num-
ber of dead bodies found ON st. Law
renee Island was over 600 The sur
vivors say that while traders from
Honolulu sold whisky which the ma
tives bought and got drunk; remain
ing 80 during the season for laying in
their winter supply of walrus and seal.
Photographs of these groups Of dead
bodies as they lie about frozen stif
were taken by the party.
The druggist who hesitates now 10
lost for the winter. He should sling
together some sw eet oil and liquorice
and bring out his cough cure at once
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup does not pay
him enough profit.