Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — IT WAS THE CAT. [ARTICLE]

IT WAS THE CAT.

Tbe Sounds That Disturbed Grave Congressmen. [Washington special.] The members and attendants about the House lobby have lately been disturbed by catcalls and tbe crying of young kittens, coming apparently from the solid wail* of the lobby. The sounds were mysterious and unaccountable. Workmen were sent for to-day to penetrate the wall to see if Poe's “cat" was w(tiled up in the masonry. The register in the vicinity of the sound was pemoved and out rolled three little kittens. Some homeless cat had crawled into the heating apparatus and finding her way between the walls had deposited her young there, where they would be protected from the winter blasts. They haye been named after three prominent lobbyists. There is a big squabble in the CongreSitional Church at East New York over a catch deacon who," to help aid a church fair, consented to'dance the Highland fling. The principal of the publio schools at Halley, Idaho, is about to lose his place because he insists on pronoonoing “Indian” “Injun” and plays billiards. Henry Ward Beecher has been elected President of the Keren no Reform Club of Brooklyn. *ark Twam mokes twenty eigen a