Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1913 — CAT NO MATCH FOR HIPPO [ARTICLE]

CAT NO MATCH FOR HIPPO

Caliph 11. Routs Louise Inglorlously .. When He Plunges Into Big Water Tank. t New York. —George Sichert, a keeper in the Central park menagerie, waa aroused by a wild scrambling in the cage of the hippopotamus. When he turned he saw the favorite mouser of the menagerie, a cat named Louise, perched on the back of the park’s bighippo. The cat had been seized by the tail and thrown into the quarters occupied by Caliph 11. by a mischievous small boy. V Caliph was soon imitating a bucking bronebo, but to no avail. Louise had secured a- firm bold with all her claws. The grunts of Caliph 11. started all the lions roaring. Sichert edged into the cage to remove the cat, bat not quite soon enough. Caliph floundered into the tank, and Louise'let go. ( Sichert lifted the dripping cat out of the tank with a broom. It was only a few days ago that Louise went to sleep in the hay and barely escaped being eaten alive by the hippo.