The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-02-24
CONCERNING CATS.
THE WORLD WOULDN'T BE
WHAT IT IS WITHOUT
PUSSY.
q Serious Side Besides Furnish
inc Lots of News.

AAAhASllnB thtlI Slldit vi lIhS anu
humor. Moreover, the eat has a seri-
Gus side and a business aspect worth
considering. For example, there is
money i'm owning a cat like that be-
longing TO Robert Lynn, Of Danville,
Va, which went out the other day
and brought back a live rabbit, on
which Mr.. Lynn made a hearty sup
per. Frank Low, Of Bath, Me-, also
has a eat that proved himself Of some
use in the world, for he howled so
vigorously when smoke poured out
into the room where he had been
sleeping that the household woke up
and the fire was put out after but a
few hundred dollars worth of dam
age had been done.
The Richmond State AYERS hat
some miscellaneous urchins of hat
Virginian city gave a mail carrier the
surprise of his life by putting a cab
met size boy eat" in n of the par
eel mail boxes. The States reporter
tried to learn which of the carriers il
was. but though somebody had let
the cat out of the box, nobody would
let the cat out of the bag. One car
rier, though, admitted that he might
occasionally have taken a dead cat
or two out Of a parcel box. In fact
he seemed to think that " as a mau-
solemn for defunct domestic animals
not larger than goat the parcel mail
box is regarded as a bowling success
in some out-of-the-way neighbour
hoods"
In Bridgeport, Conn.,, Bess, the
railroad bridge cat, was struck N
killed by the same train that a few
nights before had killed the bridge
dog Jack, and at nearly the same
spot. But a more cheerful cat
story comes from Bridgeport about a
Williams street cat which from its
youth up has been i'm the habit Of
keeping late hours, often not coming
home till long after its loving wners
are abed. As the cat has no pocket
for a night key, il has been taught to
Jump and hit the electric button with
its paw, when somebody always comes
down stairs and lets Thomas in. The
Bridgeport Union thus continues the
story:
Recently it was observed by the
servant that after one OF these late
iaunts his coat was not so sleek as be-
fore. and the suspicion of something
wrong was further confirmed when
night after night Thomas, instead Of
wiping his feet on the door mat, came
in with a rakish and insolent swag-
ger and proceeded to cuff his inter-
esting family of four kittens which
are kept i'm the cellar.
THE logical result Of a profiigate
career like Thomas's came n
night or two ago. Thomas went out
as usual that evening fur smooth,
jaunty as usual. About ] a. m. the
next-door neighbors of the family
where Thomas makes his home were
awakened by a jerky, feeble, and
desultory ringing of their electric
bell. Go down stairs, Mary said
the lady of the house, and let James
in. III bet that's James
The lady of the house is not pre-
pared to say which was the most
frightened, she or the servant girl,
when the opening of the door was
followed by the entrance, instead of
James, of a fourteen-pound and APP
parently inebriated cat.
ut was several seconds before
Thomas realized that he was in the
wrong house, and when he did his
tongue was so thick that his apollo
getic NEW sounded more like set 'em
up again, boys in cat language than
anything else.
The explanation Of ThOmas's
strange conduct was found next after
noon when il was explained that it
had been making free with milk
punches made for a sick man in the
next block, but not used. The story
seems. strange, but it is true, and
vouched for by two reputable VIII
liam street families"
A mysterious disappearance re-
ported was that of Jack. a faith
ful attendant at the sessions
Of the st. Louis Merchants Ex-
change for several years. He vas
viewed with something like w by
those members superstitiously in
clined. Some one had noticed that
the Idl : uDDtdidll't III Alf llO'A NdS
at once followed by a decline in
wheat, and after he left Change the
market advanced. This story was
handed around until there was quite
q number Of believers in this point
err But what confirmed the belief
in his power over the market was an
act he performed indicating his con
tempt for wheat. From that very
moment wheat began declining,
finally selling lower than it ever had
before i'm this market, and about %
cents a bushel below where it was
when Jack showed his disregard for
the cereal.
Speaking Of cats, the best story is
produced by the Marion, Ind, Chron-
icle, which says: Cats form strange
attachments sometimes. Robert
Wiley, Of Jonesboro, has a big black
cat that associates entirely with