Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1879 — An Astonished Cat. [ARTICLE]

An Astonished Cat.

H. Brossel, 79 East Market street, has a pet cat, or rather had, for the animal has been experimenting with fly-paper poison, and is doubtless dead by this time. The paper was on the shelf overhead, where were stored lasts, pegs, tacks and other trifles common to Brossel’s calling. The cat, while recon noiterlng, touched one fore-foot to the paper and it stuck. The other followed suit, there was a suppressed m-e-o-w of dissatisfaction, and the animal reversed position to retreat, the legs twisted around one another in the eflort foP release. The reversed position placed thp hind feet in similar embarrassment. 'the suppressed m-e-o-w ran the scale of several octaves until it went beyond the upper, and then came a series of wild bounds and ineffectual kicks that swept the shelf and rained the pegs and tacks and other trifles upon the heads of the women below. Losing her balance, the cat also tumbled, and in her gyrations over the floor so enveloped herself with the Eoisonous wrappings that she looked ke a mummy. The good German was scared out of his wits, and for a few moments the shop was the scene of indiscribable confusion.—[lndianapolis Journal.