Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     The only salaried cat in the United States, so far as one can find out, has just died in New Orleans, and was given a proper burial. This was Old Tom, who for years had been carried on the board of trade as an official rat catcher, with a salary of ten cents a day, and was never discharged, though in his later years he was as reluctant as other veteran office holders to get busy. But he had no enemies except of the feline sort, and his framed picture is to adorn the directors’ room on the board of trade.-Springfield Republican.