The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-08
Y. NEW, CAT AT THE AQUARIUM.
Brought in Half Frozen From the Bat, tery, it Develops the Touring Habit.

Brought in Half Frozen From the Bat- tery, it Develops the Touring Habit. The cat now installed as the official cat at the Aquarqium is a medium sized black tom with white feet. With all four feet and it's tail badly frozen, 1t was found, one bitterly cold day about two weeks ago, by one of the Aquarium's engineers standing justI i outside the engine room door on thesI seaward face Of the building. .... The engineer brought it in and put it in a warm spot by one of the boilers and kept it until it was thoroughly thawed out, and then turned it over to the care of the Aquarium's attendants. It now makes it's home on the main l floor of the building, remaining almost always in the neighborhood of the great central pool
 At first the new cat was unable to stand on it's feet, but finally it got so 1 that it could twist and curve it's tail in | true feline manner again, and could walk. Now, though it is very far from | having recovered it's full strength and | agility, it can move about quite freely. The greater part of it's time it spends | lying near some comfortable steam ra- | diator on the floor, but occasionally it \ takes a walk for exercise, and when it does this it walks invariably around the central pool, going slowly but steadily, and always quite undisturbed by the presence of the people.
 l Starting out close to the wall and al- ways hugging it closely, the cat pldds | along on it's round until it comes to some visitor standing looking over into the pool-there are always more or less | people standing about it-and there it will halt, waiting, for the visitor to get
 out of the way, for it doesn't quit, the.
 wall in it's walk if it can help it. If the person doesn't move pretty soon the cat 1 will go out around him, and then turn
 in close to him to the wall again be,
 yond, and once more lnugging it, resume its onward plodding. .s 4 | Whatever the reason for it may be,
 the new cat likes to walk around the pool in this manner, and often it makes
 in this way more than one circuit of it continuously, keeping on round and
 round, like a walker plugging along in
 8 six-day walk; walking slowly, it's shoulder tips coming up under it's skin
 plainly into view with every step that it
 takes, but just keeping a-plugging along, around and around, slowly, but
 as steadily as a clock.
 The diameter of the great central pool
 is thirty-eight feet; it's circumference about one hundred and twenty feet.
 The cat has been known to make the
 circuit of the pool eleven times without
 stopping, making @ total distance of
 l,320 feet, or exactly one-quarter of a
 mile, which isn't so bad for a cat that
 two weeks ago couldn't stand on it's
 feet.
 | The uniform time in which the cat
 makes the circuit of the pool prompted
 the other day visitor who had ob-
 served it too bet another man stogy
 that the cat would go around the pool
 In so many minutes and seconds, a bet
 Which the second visitor accepted.
 Then the second visitor got somebody
 to go around to the other side of the
 pool and hold the cat up there long
 enough to make the first man lose.
 But he told the first man about it later and they declared the bet off.
 While the cat likes best the walk around the pool, it varies this some-
 times by following an attendant into
 the feed room in distant corner of the : building, where the food for the fishes
 is prepared, and there meowing for
 something to eat, which is always giv- , en to it, for of course they feed this cat
 well. Sometimes they give it little strips of cut up fish, and now and then, to please it, a few killies, all of which food the cat likes-all cats are fond of fish.
 ! Altogether, the cat that was taken in
 half frozen is doing very well, and seems likely to pull through..-New York Sun. -.~ ~