Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1888 — Mr. Bowditch’s Knowing Cat. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Bowditch’s Knowing Cat.

Augusta Journal. Said Mr. Bowditch, the druggist, with a merry twinkle in his eye: “I’ve got some pretty knowing cats. A fellow was giving me some pretty stiff talk about a trained dog of his, so I told him that I had a cat that could tell the different denominations of money. He didn’t believe it, so I took a dollar bill and a flve-dotlar bill, and, unknown by him scented, the five with catnip. I then laid them on the floor and said to the cat: ‘Now, Tom, take your choice, but you are a fool if you don’t take the five.’ The cat jumped down smelled the bills, and finally with his paw poked out to one side the one with the catnip on it. Well, sir, that fellpw hasn’t yet recovered from the surprise that cat’s sagacity gave him.” Westchester, Pa., offers new manufactories immnnityfrom taxation for ten years. ■*- *