Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — Infirmary for Cats. [ARTICLE]

Infirmary for Cats.

Some twenty-five years ago a gentleman of Columbus, Ohio, died, leaving behind him drawings and plans of a cat infirmary, to be erected by bis executors. The infirmary was to have ratholes for sport, areas for amatory converse and grounds for exercise, provided with high walls, with gently slop-, lng roofs. The last clause in hls will read: “I hare all my life been taught $Bl *M»Si? b a 0 n u <i that it was man’s duty, as lord of animals, to protect all the lesser species, even as God protects and watches over him. For these two combined reasons —first that my body, even after death, may continue to be made Instrumental, as far as possible, In furnishing a substitute for the protection of bodies of my dear friends, the cats, I do hereby devise and beqneatb the intestines of my body to be made up into fiddle strings, the proceeds to be devoted to the purchase of an accordion, which shall be played In the auditorium of the cat infirmary by one of the regular nurses, to be selected for that purpose exclusively—the playing to be kept up forever and forever, without cessation day or night, In order that the cats may have the privilege of always hearing and enjoying the Instrument which Is the nearest approach to their natural voices.” There was grim grimalkin humor In this.