Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — A Hundred Tons of Cats’ Tails. [ARTICLE]

A Hundred Tons of Cats’ Tails.

One hundred tons of cats’ tails were recently sold at once for the purpose of ornamenting ladies’ wearing apparel. This means that assuming an average cat’s tail to weigh two ounces, no fewer than 1,792,000 pussies had to be killed.

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