The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-05-23
En at Random.

- Ou4oWeo VI VAST ot LOuiSi
was : visitor in PAducsh yesterday,
and he Is visitor who never fails to
attract attention wherever he goes.
he is something OF giant, as he
weighs ago pounds ,and stands six feet
two inchos in his sock feet. He wears
: No. ~ shoe, snd Is only l6 years
old. He is a car lspairer for the Ili-
nois Central at, East st. Louis, an
attracted a great deal Of attention on
the streets yss
Confetti throwing caused more than
one 70 come to grief during the csrni-
val last week. Many people like it and
lot of them don't II has become
dangerous, as out of the thousands who
divert themselves with the small bits
Of rAper there are always few who
are mean enough to take advantage of
the privilege and thr,w pepper, dust,
flour and other things. For this res-
son many people don't want any con-
fetu throwing in theirs, an some of
them enforced their objection in way
to cause few to long remember it.
-Four or five knock downs result ted
from the festivities of last week. One
man who was with his wife was carry
ing q walking stick. and when some
gawky, impudent looking man walked
mp and threw a handful of confetti in
her face he was warned not to do it
again. He did so again, and the next
moment was rolling in the dust from
. reaounding whack on the head. He
left on all tours and his gait would
haye done credit to thoroughbred
race horse. Another man had his face
dienRured by brass knucks and another
had his nose gently distributed all over
his face. While everything is supposed
to be in fun during the carnival, and
cobfetti is considered . harmless
amusement, it doesn't go with some
people.
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Former Mayor James NJ Lang Is
conyinced that cats have almost hu-
man Intelligence At his drug store he
ha& = female cat that recently began
acting strangely. She would go mp
stairs every time she had . chance,
and when she found the door to the
stairway shut would follow the doctor
about the store and meow loud and
necessarily. The door had jeen closed
whole day when the cat was at her
gor6A She seepsa almost desperate
but no one about the store knew what
was she matter with her. She would
rus1 along IN front of them and beh ind
them. get under their feet and jump
on and of the show case, whining and
Crying so loudly that it had to be put
out in the back yard. It would then
kVW Witn ruOit pChrttobAhS oiitA1i
ness that it would be les in again. but
no one could locate the cause of trou-
BILE. Finally she was put in . sack
ana sent to DIR. Lang's home, but
there she made 6 much noise that they
soon telephonod to send a boy after
her. She was taken back to the store
and about the time she was brought
back some one had occasion to 60 up
stairs, and opened the door. She was
up like streak and purred consoling-
ly as she scampered over to little
ball of yellow fur. 1t was her half
starved kitten and no one knew it was
on the place. She remained with it
until 1t had fed enough to regain its
strength, and then took it down
stairs and deposited it on the Office
desk, where she keeps it every day so
she Dan be sure of attending to its
wants. At night she takes it in her
mouth and carries it upstsirs again
ana bas no trouble getting up and
down since they discovered that a
barred door caused so much trouble.
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