Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1881 — Cats. [ARTICLE]

Cats.

Your books say that cats are “nocturnal in their habits,” and this statement will not hurt you, for it is true. It means that cats wish to take their recreation when people wish to sleep. This difference of taste accounts for the guerrilla warfare which is waged against them night after night and year after year from all the back windows in town. It also accounts for the curious things which you sometimes find in the back yard in the morning and which the cook tells you are meteorites. Nothing has been devised that kills cats, and weapons are limited to'such hand projectiles os inspire respcot or terror. The old

stone-throwing machines of the Greeks and Bomans were originally devised for this kind of combat, and were hence called catapults. Every adult cat has Jiad more costly articles thrown at it than any opera singer that ever lived; for, when a man’s state of mind becomes such that he gets out of bed to serve his country in this cause, the first article he touches is the thing that goes, whether it be a coal scuttle, an ivory-backed hair-brush or a diamond bracelet. Man has the right of this conflict, and he will ‘surely win if he lives long enough.— Exchange.