The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-01-11
Experimenting With a Cat,


A few years ago man registered at
an Oshkosh hotel, and was assigned a
room and everybody noticed that he
was most mournful-looking man, He
never said word, but there was that
about his face and actions that showed
he was laboring under some great sor-
row, He had his supper taken to his
room, and the waiter said the man new
or spoke, and seemed to be the saddest-
looking man he ever saw. The guests
all talked the matter over and they de-
cided that the man was going TO COM
init suicide. A travelling man who had
n room next door to the solemn man,
and who had previously occupied adj
joining rooms in different hotels to three
men who had committed suicide. felt
that be was about TO experience
fourth shock of the same kind, and he
laid in his bed all night and never
slept wink, believing that the next
moment he should hear a revolver shot
or the death struggle of his neighbor
from poison. He never heard a sound
all night, and when he got up in the
morning he told the clerk that he was
sure the man was dead. They passed
the room and listened, but could hear
no noise, and it was decided TO look
over the transom TO see il the man was
dead. II is not pleasant thing TO look
over transom into mans room, not
knowing whether your eye will fall on
a corpse or live mau with a revolver
pointed at you, so nobody seemed 10
yearn to be the first to climb the step
ladder. Finally IL was decided TO throw
cat over the trausOm onto the bed,
and if they did not hear any noise it
would be certain that the man was dead
and they could 90 on with the funeral
A cat was procured, and the porter,
who knew just where the bed was loca-
ted, was detailed to toss the cat over
He went up the ladder few steps--not
enough to look over, because he was
not prepared to look suddenly upon q
corpse, and taking the cat in both
hands, by the legs, he gently tossed her,
or him over the transom on the bed oc-
cupied by the mournful looking man
The cat was heard to fall with dull
thud, there was sound of scratching
and ripping, Il heavy form was heard to
strike the floor, the cat "permeoued'
and spit and the half-dozen people
out in the hall looked at each other
wonderfully, when suddenly the door
opened and the maddest man that was
ever seen in Oshkosh came out in the
hall in his night-shirt, his arm and face
bleeding on to the white night-shirt.
He had the cat by the hind legs in one
hand and revolver ia the other. and,
as he struck at the assembled multitude
right and left with the cat, there was
the worst getting down stairs that ever
was, and the cat was thrown at the last
person who went down stairs, and the
man returned to his room He dressed
himself, went down to the Office and
paid his bill, and took the first train
south, never having spoken word
while in Oshkosh, and the people are
TO this day wondering whether he was a
prohibition speaker, travelling man
for corset factory, or an agent for a
deaf and dumb asylum. The travelling
man who was so nervous for fear his
neighbor was going to commit suicide,
wishes he had; the landlord fears that
he has displeased guest who might
have remained longer, and the porter
who threw the cat says that it is the
last time that he will ever try to find a
CORPSE Sy the aid of n cat $780, PgrEs Sliu