Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Official Cats. Three hundred and odd cats are maintained by the United States Government, the cost of their support being carried as a regular item on the accounts of the Postoffice Deparment They are distributed among about fifty postodices, and their duty is to keep rats and mice from eating postal matter and mall sacks. Their work is of the utmost importance wherever large quantities of mail are collected —as, for example, at the New York postoffice, where from 2,000 to 3,000 bags of suoh material are commonly stored away in the basement. Formerly great damage was often done by mischievous rodents, which chewed holes in the sacks, and thought nothing of boring clear through bags of letters in a night. Troubles of this sort no longer occur, now that the official pussies keep Watch. Each city postmaster is allowed from $8 to S4O a year for the keep of his feline staff, sending his estimate for “eat meat” to Washington at the beginning of each quarter. Cats are kept in all'the Government

buildings at Washington. In that ot the State, War, and Navy Departments they are employed not only to protect ike priceless papers stored there but to guard against fire. Twice the War Department has been set afire by rats gnaw.hg matches—on one of these oco—ions in the office of the Secretary ot War la the middle of the night. The White House has two cate, one a black and white female, kept in the kitchen and the other a black tom, kept in the stable. Bat the Capitol is the greatest place fee Washington for cats. The huge building swarms with them and at night they scamper about in troops. Nobody knows how many of them there are. but the watchmen reckon them by scores They are all vagrants and wild as hawks. In the summer they are scattered about the neighborhood to some •extent, but in the winter they gather within the building. At about 10 o’clock every night they begin a mad racing threogh the empty corridors, which are made to resound with their cries,

His Brain Covered by a Plaster. Sam McKlel, a negro, at Poplar Grove, Ark., Is a living curiosity. Some time In August he was sitting near a fire. He had a fit and tell on the fire, his head striking a heap of red coals. His face, neck and head were burned until not only the hair and flesh tell .off, but the skull was burned to ashes and a piece of the skull as large as a man's hand came off. He is now up and the flesh wounds are healing. He has a plaster over the brain and anyone can see the brain when the plaster is off.

To Help London Workingmen. Distress among the unemployed laboring people in London is very great. Rt. Hon. Henry H. Fowler, president of the loenl Government Board, has prepared a circular advising the local authorities to modify it by making roads, constructing sewers and cleaning the streets, paying the men employed to do the work regular day’s wages. The authorities, he adds, should aim to be useful to labor and avoid making paupers of those out of work.

Loaded Revolvers Stood Guard. Two loaded revolvers prevented the saving of SSOO in a burning house in Van Wert, Ohio, a few days ago. The money, which was in gold, was concealed under a carpet in a bed-room, and on a bureau in the same room lay the revolvers, pointing toward the entrance. No one would dare enter the room. No trace of the money could be found after the house burned.

Natural Grammar. A class in grammar was reciting, and one of the younger boys was asked to oomp&re “sick. ” He began thoughtfully “sick,” paused while his brain struggled with the problem, then finished triumphantly: “Sick, worse, dead Apples for Alcoholism. A German doctor has started the theory that most drunkards can be cured nlmply by eating apples at every meaL sThe sold of the fruit does it Hie lua-iue of the tiM, The Superintendent of the Censm anfcas public * bulletin In which on gives jtatfatioß upon the subject <* asylums for Jfce insane in the United States The bulletin shows that tlu total amber of Insane persons treated la both phhHo an* private i**tttuUo<H during mm year liflfl was 97.3J5, whin during the year lttl there wm 56,901 showing la the alat ■ SnßTCuws has written aa artldt ee tbe race far riches He says most on the U»Me oa Wail street are due to coa Meant In tassflcUmt or secoad-hsmdte