Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1904 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

Men Are Inferior to Cats. There are several points in which! man is Inferior to the cat The cat, for one thing, has no vermiform appendix, and consequently never suffers from appendicitis. Furthermore, while man lias chosen to be a nocturnal as w r ell as a diurnal creature he has only the diurnal vision; whereas the cat devoting “jts days to civilization and its nights to barbarism,” can see In the dark as well as in the light, having a patent adjustable eye. She possess nine lives and all of them have to be taken in order to get rid of the cat. If the slayer thinks he slays he knows not well the subtle ways In which this admirable creature passes, turns ami brings forward her successive entities for obliteration. Drowned in the pond she returns to the woodshed or the kitchen door, requiring to be shot. Shot, she comes back to be asphyxiated. Smothered by the fumes of chloroform, she revives and calls for prussic acid. She is a walking, living, breathing, vociferating exemplification of the principle of metempsychosis. Iler reincarnations in one brief period outrival those to which man is condemned by the Hindoo theology in hundreds of years and her avatars outnumber Buddha’s. It is no wonder that the Egyptians worshiped the cat. She has been able to get hold of some principle which man, the boaster, who vaunteth himself almost a god, is denied —New York Mail and Express.