Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1884 — A Cat and a Sparrow. [ARTICLE]

A Cat and a Sparrow.

A cat caught a sparrow, and, after breaking one of its wings, commenced playing witl* it preparatory to devouring it. But the bird sent its bill into the cat’s nose to such purpose as toxlemoralize the animal, aud he retreated. The two then became close friends. They ate, drank, and slept together; the bird rode aronnd the house on the cat’s back, and the latter would uot even touch its food until the Bparrow had satisfied its appetite. One morning the bird found the window open, and, feeling strong of wing, took unceremonious leave. The cat neither died nor lost its appetite, a circumstance which is regarded as most astonishing in view of the current sentimental anecdotes. V Nearly 30,000 square miles of United States territory are now owned by foreign syndicates and capitalists. Young or middle-aged men, suffering from nervous debility or kindred affections, should address, with three letter stamps for largo treatise, World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Always give the devil his adieu.—Philadelphia Chronicle.