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Dog and Cat.

     One of New York’s “four hundred” had a $3000 bull dog killed by a Maltese cat in a fight the other day. No wonder the poor dog got killed with such a terrible amount of money as that on his head. The cat probably was worth about fifty cents.

A Valuable Cat.

     Howard Reed, of Milford, Pa., started out hunting for partridges and woodcock and was followed by the house cat. All efforts on the part of the young hunter to drive the cat back home was futile; it was bound to go with him, and it illustrated its ability as a hunter by it’s “pointing” […]

A Black Cat

The steel works of the Lackawanna Iron & Coal Company at Scranton have the reputation of being well managed, and as free from accident as any similar establishment  in the United States, but for all that the mill is not free from superstitious. While visiting the works a few evenings ago, and watching the glow […]

A Connecticut Woman’s Pets.

Springfield [Mass.] Republican.      Mrs. Augustus Brooks, of East Eliot, Conn., has a cat thirteen years old, which will stand up when ordered, bow quickly or slowly, as directed, walk around the room on her hind legs only, dance, turn somersaults, go through the motions of holding a jew’s-harp in her mouth with one paw […]

Scottish Wild Cats.

     It is not generally known that wild cats are still found in parts of Scotland and are extremely fierce. They make their homes in rocks and hollow trees. At one time they were found all over England, but , like snakes, they have not been seen in Ireland.

Cats.

     A cat bit Mrs. Crittenden of Middletown, Conn., two years ago. She was strangely ill for a time, and has since been almost helpless, her nervous system being thoroughly disarranged. She cannot speak without stammering, and some of her symptoms are like those of hydrophobia in a mild form.

The Cat as a Substitute for the Carrier Pigeon.

     It seems that the Belgians have formed a society for the mental and moral improvement of cats. Their first efforts has been to train the cat to do the work of the carrier pigeons. The most astute and decomplished scientific person would have the ideas of locality totally confused by being tied up in […]

The Flesh of Different Animals.

A French savant having been called upon to give his views regarding the eating of horseflesh, says: “It is like third rate beef; it cannot be said to have a disagreeable taste, for it has no taste at all. Donkey, on the other hand, is delicious, and infinitely better eating than beef or mutton. This […]

The Name and Origin of Cats.

One of the singular proofs of the foreign importation and perhaps of the late arrival in Europe of the cat, is found in its various names, says the London Daily News. It is said that none of them came from the old Aryan source, from which most of our language is derived. Most of them, […]

Cats.

Mr. James Morton, of Simonton’s Corner, Me., shot a tiger cat in the Barne district, measuring four feet and ten inches in length.