The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-23
A car THAT HYPNOTIzEs.
Has One Eye Blue and the other Vel
IOw-TerrorIze- NeiEhbOFhOOd.


From the Chicago News
A. A. Nolseur Of ns Thirty-hfth street
owns a haIf-breed Maltese cat that Is the
terror Of the neighborhood. The negroes
fly from il In abject fear. declaring that
il Is possessed OF a devil and has the evil
eye.
Various attempts have been made 10 kill.
steal or lose this particular tabby. but
yesterday when a reporter called at Mr..
Noiseur's store the cat jumped upon the
counter and rubbed herself against col
ored woman. who was in the act Of pur-
chasing a penny's worth Of candy. The
woman stroked the cat. then looked it in
the face. Then she gave howl Of terror
and dashed out OF the door while tabby
strained her eyes-one yellow and the 9TH
er blue-at the retreatng figure
They are all that way" said Mr.. MOI
seur. yet the cat brings ne good luck,
the best 1 have ever had.
She IS a peculiar animal, however" he
admitted. Sometimes a dog will come in
the store. At first the cat viii not notice
him, for she is as deaf as dOor-nafl, be-
ing half Maltese and half Angora. Soon
however, they are sure 10 come together
and the cat fights, and fights just like
dog. Sometimes my poor cat gets the worst
of II. until the two animals draw a part to
look at one another, preparatory 10 COM
ing together again. Then, for the first
time, the dog sees the popularity of my
cats eyes and IL seems TO transfiX him.
First his hair raises on end, then. as the
cat takes a step forward, with those
strange eyes fixed on the dog. the latter
no matter how courageous, viii turn tail
and fly. Even the bulldogs on the block
place their tails between their legs and
scoOt when they see her coming 1t is diff
ferent with the mice, however. They come
out and play with Butterfy-thats the
name my wife gives the cat. OF course,
tabby doesn't know her name, as she is
deaf, but my wife uses sign language"
Just then Mrs. Noiseur came from an
inner room, and to corrOborate her hus-
bands statement made a sign to the cat
with her finger. Instantly the cat sprung
toward her. Then Mrs. Noiseur asked in
dumb language II Butterfly wished d
drink of water, to which Butterfly re-
sponded with most fiendish screech, and
the faucet was turned on. Butterfly drank
direct from the faucet standing on her
hind legs to reach the nozzle.
Mrs. NOiseur explained that she called
the cat Butterfly because when a kitten
last spring it used to go out into the
yard and gaze at the butterflies, and in
variably they flew down to the cat only
to be 0eNOured. BIRDS, however, she
would not touch Butterfly was one Of
litter of five kittens; the others We're
born with natural eyes, but Buttertiy's
were blue and yellow, respectively. Soon
after Butterfly opened her variegated OPP
tics the other kittens died and the little
girl who owned the mother cat gave But
terfy to Mrs. Noiseur, as the nelghbors
would not tolerate a cat which they de-
clared had the evil eye.
Butterfly will never play with other
cats. She gives them one look and II
that is not enough she attacks them. A
large cat dropped in lazily while the re-
porter was present. Butterfly gave her
one look. and the visitor gave one snarl
and dashed wildly about the store until
some one opened the door. Those strange
eyes seemed TO terrorize almost every
thing.
Mrs Noiseur is devoted to Butterfly, but
her sister who is very fond of cats, will
not go near Butterfly. There are colored
people in the neighborhood who claim
that Butterfly has hypnotized them, and
II is enough to threaten a pickaninny on
Dearborn street near Thirty-ffth that you
will have Noiseur's cat conjure him to
make the obstreperous youngster good
! for days to come.