Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1881 — Interviewing. London Telegram. [ARTICLE]

Interviewing. London Telegram.

Interviewing has reached its lowest depth when we find newspaper reporters dancing attendance on a cat’smeat man. Yet this is what has happened in America, and we are compelled to confess that the reporter found the purveyor of skewered victuals far more interesting than most of the nobilities who are interviewed on the public behalf. The particular “cat-man” was indeed somewhat of a hero—one of the self-made men of whom cities are so proud when they die. It appears that when, he began catering for pussy he went his rounds himself, but he has grown so prosperous that four assistants carry his baskets for him. His cat customers do not heed the change, for they remark only the quality of the meat purveyed and not the quality of the purveyor. • Left to themselves, the animals, though having the run of large warehouses, would starve, for American rate and mice Will not remain in dry good stores, which are lean livings, so long as they have choice of fatter incumbencies; but,

mice or no mice, the cat is an institution, and so the “cat-man” drives a thriving trade. A wicked rival tried to ruin our hero by baking fish instead of meat, and pretending to pussy's owners that, as fish contained much phosphorus, and phosphorus made baaing, no one could expect to have a really smart cat that was not fed upon fish. But the “cat-man” prompty checkmated his rival by distributing a handbill to the , effect , that fish made cate mangy, whereas meat gave them sleek and glossy coats. As t proved in the sequel, "the New Yorkers prefer fat cate to smart ones, and the fish fellow had no chance against his antagonist. —, —— The carpenters and painters employed in the Chicago A Alton shops, at Bloomington, 111., have struck. .