The evening times., 1896-11-06
FOUR CATS OF EM|NENCE
One Has a Kaugar0O'S Legs
and Hare'S Tail.
EATS RATS AND OYSTERS
Still Another Rode seventy Miles
CIinging to the Rapidly Revoiv-
ing Axle of Hallway cara
Feiine's Franks With "a Cash Reg
ister-One Serves as Watch Dog.

In New York the queerest cat is owned
lby Mrs. Eliza j. West OF No. 2o1 West
| Twelfth street. She calls it Il cat, buA!t
resembles more closely rabbit or kan
graoo.
Tnis freak OF nature is named "Buntie."
it IS three months Old. In experience
and knowledge. however, 1t is decades ahead
.ut It's mamma, Minnie" u staId inatron
OF eight summers.
with the exception OF an aDnormally big
head, Buntie'' is plain cat, very plain,
lGuyyn 10 tie waIsl. Incre tine difference
at once makes itself manifest. The hind
legs are Il combination of kangaroo and
| rabbit, while the brief tail is Il cross be-
tween II Lare'S and pug dogs.
| This combination gives At "A peculiar gait,
and viewed from the rear 1t is almost inn
| possible To tell what kind OF animal IL is.
! It's gait is hop, step and Jump, the last
| DcInS tne Uesg defined. Inc nlnu legs are
| bent like rabbits, the entire portion from
the elbow To the toe being fiat upon the
| ground. The tale is like harc'S, but 1t
has a peculiarly tight curl.
! Three other kittens were born to Bun
ties mother at the same time. None oi
them was a freak Ike 'Buntie." Like
! Casslus, "Buntie'' has. lean and hungry
look" although we'll fed and cared IOr.
| THIS famshed appearance Is enhanced by
| the abnormal size Of her head, which Is
! much larger in circumfrre nee than the thick
est portion OF her body Her color is that
OF an overripe pumpkin. The fur Is long and
| the ears very small.
| "Buntie" is one of the smartest kittens in
| the metropolis. She 'bcgs, plays dead
ana does all kinds Of tricks, but for some
! reason seems to have an inherent preju-
| dice against her brothers and sisters, with
| whom she declines. topiay. Her disposition
is as erratic as her physical structure is
| unique.
! a CATS THRILLING RIDE.
A London cat has broken all records of
| feline endurance. This cat had a comfort
able home in the London station of the
Midland Railway. She was well cared for
and was the pet OF the traInmen and station
guards. Ii seemed that this cat, OF all
others, was most likely To lead an uncvent-
full life. She had never shown any particu-
ar curiosity concerning the engines of the
road or their mechanism, COntenting herself
with lOaIiHg about tie lunchToDm, where
/ there were many opportunities OF securing
Il comfortable meal.
One day this cat, like many mortals,
became possessed Of a desire to travel,
and, not caring to walk, she stole ride
Freight trains apparently did not suit her,
for she TOOK passage on the fastest train
that runs over the Midland Railway.
Nobody knows when she got there, but
when the Midland flyer" which makes
the run from London to Ketterng, seventy
TWO miles in about eighty minutes, reached
Kettering the cat was found perchcd upon
ear axle. somewhat dizzy and rumpled,
apparently with no intention of leaving
her perch. hut Of continuing her journey
to Edinburgh
The railroad men were puzzled to know
how the cat retained her hold upon a piece
of iron revolving a hundred times a minute.
The more they discussed it the greater
heir 1cfrp ia
chester engineer determined TO find out
just what that cat S endurance amounted to.
HIS FIGURES.
He consulted the timetable to find the
speed OF the train. and got the dimen-
siOns OF the car wheels from some of the
officials. Then he started figuring.
Finding the wheels 10 be three feet six
inches in diameter and the distance from
London to Kettering seventy-two miles, lie
figured out that the cat must have per
formed 3i.56o revolutions in one hour and
twenty minutes-a job that only very big,
powerful and exceptionally determined
twelve puU?d cat could expect {. tackle
with any hope Of success.
Then the engineer had recourse TO a dia-
gram sho wing cat slung to the axle, to
;nd In his further calculations. Pussy's
center of gravity would fall about twelve
inches from the center Of the axle, and at a
speed OF sixty miles an hour1t would make
iSO revolutions nf.flte, the velocit Y of her
center of gravity being about fifty feet
per second. He then found that there had
been something like seven hundredweight
Imposed on the ears claws when the axle
was revolving at full speed.
The engineer then made an examination
or the cat, taking exact measurements OF
her claws, and, as a result of further caicu-
lations, pussyS resistance to centrifugal
force was found 10 be equal to seventeen
tons per square inch of the claw section.
There were other factors to he considered,
such as wind resistance, when. passing
through the top ocnrcrs, but the engineer
thought he had GOV, about far enough.
Shortly after pussy was found a lady
who happened to be betrayeling or the train
at the time took pussy to her house and
provided for her comfort.
A CASH REGISTER CAT.
+. l.. Buchanan, a druggist at Lacon,
H., mas an improved cash register. Each
evening he Compares the cash in the drawer
with the total sales as shown by the regis
ter. Three weeks ago he was surprised to
find deficit of several dollars He could
suspect nobody, bht'lie watched the register
closely to see if anyone tampercd with it
during the day.
He found, however, that with the excep-
tl"n of himself and trusted clerk. nobody
had touched the machine. Nevertheless,