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Monthly Archives: September 2010

Cats Victims Of Smallpox.

     Carbondale, Ills., April 12.-A unique condition seems to exist at Anna, where for several months an epidemic of smallpox has raged to such an extent that the public schools have been closed and services in the churches have temporarily suspended. In a residence where the occupants have been afflicted with the disease it has […]

Watchcat!

     Baby Marie-she’s a cat-spat, yowled and scratched, when a burgler broke into the home of Mrs. Westley C. Force of Chicago. The burgler beat it.

“Cat” Foster-Mother.

     From Prince Edward Island comes this remarkable picture of two valuable silver foxes and their foster-mother, a cat who has mothered them from infancy. The foxes are among those on Rosebank Fur Farm, the largest breeding place of silver foxes in the world.

Cat Fireman.

     When members of the Rockaway Park [N. Y.] engine company slide down the brass pole, their cat mascot Hans does so, too.

Mother Cat Retrieves Kitten From Well.

  By International News Service.      Punxsutawney, Pa., July 20.-An old cat’s mother love was greater than her aversion to water. Under the rear porch of Mr. and Mrs. C. K. McCartney’s house is an old abandoned well. The water is sixteen feet below the ground surface and is several feet deep.      While the […]

Ate Cat Meat.

Demented New Jersey Tailor Feeds on Pickled Tabbies.      A Newark, N. J., tailor is charged with forcing his young children to eat cat meat. He had killed the cat, pickled it, then ate some of it himself and compelled his children to follow suit. He is thought to be partially insane. He says that […]

Business Is Renting Cats.

San Francisco Furnishes Ratters For Stores And Warehouses.      There is an odd little man named Echnier who lives in an odd little house in the heart of the busiest portion of San Francisco, who earns his bread oddly enough. His business is the raising of cats, which he puts into warehouses, stores and other […]

Chased By a Bull Dog.

     In Paris, a bull dog, supposed to be mad jumped upon a horse which a gentleman was riding, but lost his hold, and the horse started at a desperate gallop, with the dog behind him. At first the gentleman tried to stop the horse, but subsequently urged him forward, judging apparantly, that is was […]

Dogs.

     A rabid dog bit twenty persons and some forty canines in Chicago last Friday afternoon. Mayor Colvin has issued a proclamatiom ordering dogs muzzled for sixty days from date.

Cattle.

     A ferry-boat load of cattle were being taken across the Illinois river at Newport recently when they became frightened and rushed to one side of the craft, upsetting it. One of the men in charge, and all the animals, were drowned.