Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1888 — The Cat Craze Coming. [ARTICLE]

The Cat Craze Coming.

Baltimore Herald. Recently Queen Victoria has contracted the habit of carrying her household cats along with her when she moves from one castle to another. The transportation of cats, has, therefore, become quite a fashionable craze in England, no family of the least pretensions considering it in good form to appear at a railway station without an ample basket containing the domestic felines. The apfng of royalty even in the most absurd and silly customs is one of those things that is not destined to die out soon. Of course the cat craze is liable at any moment to invade the ranks of our American nobility.