Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1880 — Cats. [ARTICLE]

Cats.

In the middle ages cats, once the object of veneration in Egypt, were in France looked upon as satanic agents, and were burned alive. In Paris every St. John’s day a number of the abhorred animals were heaped up in baskets and bags in the Place de Greve, to afford an unto-da-fe, the sovereign himself setting fire to the pile.