The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1883-03-28
Strange SENSATION.
WHAT WAS DISCOVERED ON THE THIRD
FLOOR OF A PoYDRAs STREET
COMMISSION HOUSE.
In this present age of wonaers<we

over posters on the walls advertising
a two headed girl, heaaless rooster,
q cow with four eyes or anyth ng OF
that character, but when a real curl
osity comes under our observation,
purely incidental, not manufactured
curiosity either than we think II
worth while telling.
An Item reporter was ushere' to
the third story Of the store of iheo.
H. Marsh & Co., No. 81 Poydras
street, yesterday and there showed
something out of the ordinary course
of nature.
Two weeks ago cat belonging. to
Mr.. Eugene Doherty, merchant at
No. 81 Poydras street, was about 10
have kittens, and one day three small
rats were caught in the store and
yiven to the cat. II was thought that
she would .deyour them, but instead
of doing this she took them carefully
one by one, down to the store OF
Theo. H. Marsh Co., three doors
below, where she made n bed OF straw
in box on the third floor and began
to care for them as her young.
The next day the cat gave birth to
three kittens in the same box, and
now the cats and rats are. living to-
getLer as one happy family, nursed
and nourished by the old cat.
} Tie matter soon becamethe theme
Of conversation on Change and the
callers were many, but passy, rot
caring TO be the exposure of all eyes,
quietly removed her bed and took up
| her abode, with her own lineage and
the foster children, in a barrel This
is certainly a very strange freak, and
is all the more remarkable because
Of the cat being considered the best
f rat catcher in the neighborhood, but
at any rate the group are getting
along lovely and don't seem to care
how the produce marke, goes. This
matter involves several points. fol
t the Board of Health to solve: Doe!
{ the cat know that they are ratsp 20
: course, the Mexican treaty has moth
f ing to do with thiss but have cat
and rats come togetherto down dog
, in the coming summer? Which viii
/. stake the ranch FIRST, rats Or cats
f Tue cats are two weeks old and th'
= rats are pretty large, and how lons
this thing is going to last is too higl
for a reportorial Uranium. Give i
up!- N. 0. City Item.
--JUST Lhiuk OF it; there were elev
en- thousand eighty five marriages il
this city in 1882. Ofthese two hun
dred and sixty seven old bachelors
That is, men between the ages of for
ty five and fifty, were welded, am
fourteen old bucks of more thar
three score years. and ten, found part
: sness for the brief remnant of ,thei
:, Joys and sorrows. The most inter
esting feature of the report concern
ing the matrimonial crop is that til
spinsters over forty, five, bat yof un
;, certain age, could be numbered b.
8 the hundred. Here is, comfort, ma
:. solace, for the dear old maids VII
have sighed and sinpered in val
- for nearly half century. Will
there is life there is hope, and i
this glorionsly cosmopolitan city a
is no. lost to women while a bale
/ sza,AN ssssssgsszss
headed bachelor is at large. Let til
!, fair brace up, even though they b
old and on the shelf for years. /
the storehouses Of GotlIam7nothin!
= not even a greyheadeda splnster, b,
' comes absolutely uynmsIkstable.-
8 Y.Telegran. /