The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1895-03-29

Feiines With Singular Freaks OF Nature
-One Not Easily Killed.


Fciines with Singular Freaks OF Nature
-one Not Easily Killed.
1t began last fall. The family said
to Lewiston journal reporter, THAT
cat has outlived her usefulness. She
Is only a nuisance now. She must
die" Now, this same cat was the
apple of my eye, but it is uncomforta-
BILE to be at loggerheads with ones
family. therefore prepared to sac
rifice my idol by purchasing an ounce
OF chloroform.
Sorrowfully inverted a cheese box
over my sleeping pet, applied the
fatal drug. and soon found that the
heavier sleep had set in. then with
drew to weep and to prepare for the
funeral. Hair an hour later, on en-
tering the kitchen, was struck dumb
with amazement at what seemed to be
the ghost of my late cat walking in by
another door in very unsteady way.
My grief broke out afresh. Must the
painful scene be repeated l could
not again thus do violence to my feel
ings, and yet she must not live to
suffer. The kind-hearted laundress
came to my relief by Offering to
drown her. An hour later all was
over and the CHEEKY purr was hushed
forever.
A two months absence from home
went far to assuage the pangs of
loneliness. On my return a family
chorus went up, 1--WE are overrun
with mice. Do get a kitten at once"
Obedient as usual, made inquiries
for kitten, but without success. 1t
was dry time. At length l secured
pretty gray specimen of felinity,
who stayed with us, alas! for only the
brief space of four-andtwenty hours.
AT the end of that time she fell down
the garnet stairs and was instantly
killed. / never heard of such q case
before.
Our next incumbent belonged to the
genus tramp. A lSind-hearted neigh
Dor and true catlover rescued it from
three pursuing dogs in q poor part
OF the town, on her way home from
church one Sunday, and brought it to
me. The kitten was thin, scrawny
creature, Maltese in color, and had
But as my friend had carried her half
mile | could hardly refuse TO con-
tinue the missionary work. So the
waif was comfortably installed and
seemed contented and happy under
our united efforts to do her good. At
the end of a week she disappeared
twice, mysteriously. Both times she
was brought back for / had adver-
tised her size, color and present con-
dition of servitude to large circle of
neighbors. She escaped third time,
however, and we never saw her again.
1t was hard to think of her as thrown
upon the tender mercies of cold
world and we sighed over her blighted
prospects.
l then went on the rampage for q |
first-class kitten of uneXceptionable
antecedents, firmly resolving not to |
be beguiled by anything short of per-
lection. A six-toed Maltese kitten,
of most engaging ways, was said to
"fill the BILL" but / was one day too
late in applying for her. However, I
was more than consoled by finding @
tiny Angora specimen of the tender
age of two weeks. Her pedigree was
a fine one-her maternal relative hav-
ing taken a prize recently for all the
good points to be found in Angora
cats. waited impatiently for her to
attain weeks of discretion, and at
length bore her proudly home. She
demonstrated audibly and with great
vigor all the way against being torn
from her family, so that became a
conspicuous object of the street, She
kept up these remarks for q week or
ten days, with brief intervals Of re-
pose.
Her former mistress, to whom APP
piled for a solution of the mystery,
assured me that IL was only home
sickness, that she might be confidently
expected to rally from it, and that the
bereaved mother and daughter left be-
hind were similarly affected at the
loss of their companion.