Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-01-16
PUss IN THE PosToFFIcE.

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1t may not he generally known that
considerable sum of money for cats
meat appears annually as an item in
the pOstOffice estimates. This meat
goes to the support of whole colony
of cats at st. Martini -le-Grand. How
they first came there no one seems to
know but the general impression is
that their ancestors belonged to the
private offices which were demolished
when the present q. o. =. was built.
and that they became ''strays" about
the ruins until the rising walls gradu-
ally shut them in, and thus provided
them with home.
The eats are invariably treated with
great kindness by the postal staff.
Kittens are born in all sorts of odd cor
ners, even occasionally under desk or
table in the sorting office. One cat has
successfully reared during the pres
ent year n family of six in the regis
tered letter department, but this. of
course. is exceptional. They are gen.
orally born in the kitchens. MS there are
plenty of old WORKOUT coats about,
which make comfortable bed. As
soon as they are old enough some one
requiring Il cat takes one home to the
domestic hearth. There is often keen
struggle for their possession. and
man will feed both mother and kitten
on milk and watch them with anxious
eye only to find in the end that he is
Il day too late. some one having fore
stalled him and quietly disappeared
with the coveted pet.
HOW THE PRESIDENTS DIED.
George Washington.-His death was
the result of severe cold, contracted
while riding around his farm in a
rain and sleet storm OH December 10,
1890. The cold increased, and was fol-
lowed by n chill which brought on
acute laryngitis. His death occurred
on December IA, 1899. He was sixty
eight years of age.
John Adams.-IIe died from old age,
having reached his ninety-first mile
stone. Though active mentally. he was
nearly blind. and unable to hold Il pen
steady enough to write. He passed
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Thomas Jefferson.-He died at the
age of eighty-three. a few hours be-
fore Adams. on July 4. 1896 His dis
ease was chronic diarrhoea, superin-
duced by old age. and, his physicians
said, the tOO-free use of the waters of
the White Sulphur Springs.
James Madison.-He, too, died Of old
age, and peacefully on June %, 1896.
His faculties were undimmed to the
last. He was eighty-fve.
James MonrOe.-At the time of his
death, which occurred In the seventy
third year of his age, on July 4. 1881,
it was assigned to no other than en-
feebled health.
John Quincy Adams.-He was strick-
en- with paralysis on February u. 1913,
while addressing the Speaker of the
House of Representatives. being at the
time member of Congress. He died
In the rotunda of the Capitol. He was
eighty-one years of age.
Andrew jacksonville died on June
3. 1915. seventy-eight years old. He
suffered from consumption, and finally
dropsy made it's appearance about six
months before his death.
Martin Van Buren.-He died on July
~. 1862. from violent attack of
asthma, followed by catarrhal affec-
ton Of the throat and lungs. He was
eighty years of age.
William Henry Harrison.--Th
cause Of his death was pleurisy, the
result of cold which he caught on
the day Of his Inauguration. This was
accompanied with severe diarrhoea,
which would not yield to medical treat
mcnt. He was sixty-eight years of
age.
John Tyler-IIe died on January
IL, 1862, at the age of seventy-two.
have been unable to ascertain the
cause of his death.
James X. Polk.-In the spring Of 1910
he was stricken with a slight attack
of cholera while on a boat going up the
Mississippi River. Though temporar-
lily relieved, he had a relapse on his re-
turn home. and died on July II. 1S49,
aged fifty-four years.
Zachary Taylor.-He was the Sec
ond President to die in Office. He IL
said to have taken immoderately or ice
water and iced milk. and then later on
large quantity Of cherries. The re-
suit was an attack Of cholera morbus.
Another authority attributes his death
to n severe cold. The former seems the
more likely. He was sixty-six years
old.
M.llard Fillmore.-He died from a
stroke OF paralysis ON March 3, 1874, in
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