Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-11
The Cat.

Cats are curious cattle. They are sell fish. They are grasping. When the att 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 sacques 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 eat has nine lives-that is to say : she lives nine times longer than she ought. This suggests problem, which lovers 5 of mathematics-there are those, alas who love then-can puzzle over.
 = If 1t take nine tailofs to make one live man, and nine lives to make one cat, what does a catamount to2 etCorre- spondents sending answers will please inclose 3-cent stamp, not for publica-- tion, but for the use of tie compiler of this authentic h.story.)
 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 Aays inserted their own claws.
 Not only do they escape tax, but tiI5 taxidermist also. They do their own stufing.
 At the time of the food Father Noah endeayored 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 a cat.
 Many stories are told of the seafa1ing 1;
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 In Egypt cats were regarded as sacred animals. To kill one was an offense pun ishable with death.
 The eat remembers this, and to this day. takes fence on the slightest provo cation.
 Formerly, when cat died, all the in- mates of the house went into mourning. Now the household go out into the night and erect bootjacks to its memory. They don't wait till morning.
 The Egyptians worshiped oat-hea ed deity, and mariners, who cling to old superstitions, still set up cat-heads ill their ships.
 The Egyptian cat lived in dark age; the modern cat closes her existence in sausage.
 Cat-skins were fayorite dress trim ming in the middle ages, whence arose the proverb that 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 Cf 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 wails now frequently fetch a whole cowhide in the shape of boot leather.
 Cats are Baptists by profession, but those who indulge their predilections during early kittenhood seldom survive.
 Cats are very mewsical. They are all base singers. The nocturne is their fa- vorite composition.
 Nox is their especial deity. Knocks always accompany their concerts.
 Cats do not open their eyes until 9 days old. Do they ever close them again? Nein. Throw boot-jack at sleeping cat and you will be convinced of this.
 Cats are supposed to be accompliees of witches, which is probably because they love the darkness rather than light.
 It is said that cats are cleyerer 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 l-Boston Transcript.