Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — Uncle Sam’s Postoffice Pussies. [ARTICLE]

Uncle Sam’s Postoffice Pussies.

Some 300 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 department. These cats are distributed among about fifty poßtoffices, and their duty is to,keep rats and mice from eating and destroying postal matter and canvas mail 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 mail matter are commonly stored away in the basement.