Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — IT WAS THE CAT. [ARTICLE]

IT WAS THE CAT.

The B*wnds That IHsturbed Grave ConL gresamen. [Washington special.] The members and attendants about the House lobby have lately been disturbed by catcalls and the crying of young kittens, coming apparently from the solid walls of the lobby. The bounds were mysterious and unaccountable. Workmen were sent for to-day to penetrate the wall to see if Poe's “cat" was walled'up in the masonry. The register in the vicinity of the sound was removed and out rolled three little kittens. Some homeless cat had crawled into the heating apparatus and finding her way between the walls had deposited her young there, where they would> be protected from the winter blasts. They have been named after three prominent lobbyists. Thebe is a big squabble in the Congregational Church at East New York over a Scotch deacon who, to help aid a church fair, consented to dance the Highland fling. The principal of the public schools at Halley, Idaho, is about to lose his place because he insists on pronouncing “Indian 1 * “Tnjmf' and piays brtliwrtU T Hewbi Ward Beecher has been elected President of the Bevemue Reform Club of Brooklyn. > Twaux smokes twenty cigars •