New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-06-02
STRANGE THINGS At SEA.
a Cloud Graded Frog .nd = Cat Thaa
Would Not Ih,0wn.

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A Cloud Graded Frog 1md q Cas- Tha1
Would Not Dtown.
A remarkable story akGut the Amer
can ship Iroquois picking.a live frsg Of
q cloud in midocean excited , muImuF
of comment along the water front, and
had the story come to port with almost
any other man but Captain Rayler it
might have been doubted. Tayler's rep
utation for veracity is well established
IN Portland, so the strange story was
taken without grain Of: salt and with
only few drinks of whisky. An un-
usual tale of the sea always brings ia
mind another, and the frog stony of the
HoquOis was no exception
There's strange things happen on
Board ship, sometimes said Al Belts
the we'll known river pilot, '.and scrap
ing frogs off the clouds-with q topmast
is not the strangest. / remembar an &C.
eurrence on board the odd clipper P1hm
duff, which was so remarkable that I
am frequently accused. of handling the
truth in a careless manner whm I Be-
late it.
The Plumduff was en- route from
Calcutta for the Columbia in ballast,
and was first mate under Captain.
Timbertoes. Among other. live stock
aboard was maltese cat:. Hhe cat be-
haved very we'll for tie first week or two.
but when we got over on the equator she
made the night hideous with her inces-
SAINT yowling. Old Timbertoes had the
govt and did not sleep well: anyway,
and this infection. nearly made him
crazy, so one night: he came out, and,
finding the cat in a good, convenient
/ position, kicked henover inte,the sennd-
ing sea. r.
''The only witness to the3deed was a
lascar sailor at tha wheel, and when he
told the rest of the.erew wesalmost had
! a mutiny on our: hands, as they prophe-
| sled all sorts of bad luck would happen
! to the ship. Nothing came of it, how
ever, and as we were in good, ballast
| trim we came flying along in rattline
shape, and absut 40 days after leaving
the Ganges our mudhook went down in
| Astoria harbor. In due season ths Gus
| tom house boat came out, and when the
! officers clamhered aboard Denny Curran
! the boatman,> Stacked away on his Ian
| yard and his boat came around under
the stern. 4 moment later we heard {
yell, and Denny was coming up thu
ladder hand over hand as, though thu
devil was after him, and, in his boat
making a united chorus Of smeows,
was our old maltese cat and five hal
grown kittens.
| ''When Denny recovered his: breath
he stated that, as his boat swung
around under the stern, the ANIMAL
Immediately sprang Off the top of tn
rudder, and the unusual sight nearl.
frightened him to, death. We then wen
back and made an examination of tn
rudder and found that with her claw
the abandoned cat had scratched cav
ity OUT Of the top of the rudder, ant
while the lascar sailors had bee1
mourning her death she was engage
in rearing family. The rudder, bein
high out Of the water, of course pre-
vented her getting wet very often, an
!, a number of fishbones still reposing i
the cavity indicated the diet which ha
kept her alive: She was taken ashore
and think Scott johnson, the Astori
stevedore, has some of her descendant
yet, and to this day they will eat moth
ing but sea fish. '-Portland Oregonia1