Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     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 a meal-bag and carried twenty miles from home and let out in a strange neighborhood in the middle of the night. This experiment has, however, been repeatedly tried upon cats of only average abilities, and the invariable result has been that the departed animal has reappeared at his native kitchen door the next morning and calmly ignored the whole affair. This wonderful skill in raveling through unfamiliar regions with out a guide-book or a compass has suggested the possibility of cats being used as special messengers. Recently thirty-seven cats residing in the City of Liege were taken in bags a long distance into the country. The animals were liberated ay 2 o’clock in the afternoon. At 6:48 the same afternoon one of them  reached his home. His feline companions arrived at Liege somewhat later; but it is understood that within twenty-four hours every one had reached his home. It is proposed to establish at an early day, a regular system of cat communication between Liege and the neighboring village.