Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — A Dreadful Slaughter of Cats. [ARTICLE]

A Dreadful Slaughter of Cats.

A hundred tons of cats tails were recently sold in one lot in London for ths purpose of ornamenting ladies’ wearing apparel. Assuming that an average oaf’s I*ll would weigh a couple oi ounces, ihte would mean that no fewei than 1,792,000 pussies had been killer lust to supply wUs one deal alone.