A LEARNED CAT
The Lewiston Journal tells a story to establish the fact that cats are intelligent, as well as dogs. The owner of one in that place taught Tom to trade mice for meat – receiving from his master a piece for every mouse presented. One day a mouse was brought and laid down before the clerk who did not happen to understand the arrangement. Tom determined not to be baulked of the reward, carried the captive upstairs, and laid it before his mistress., who not liking such a present, scolded him for bringing it into the house, and threw it out the window. The cat then ran downstairs, went out and found his mouse and kept it until night until his master came home, when once more the mouse was brought in, and kitty claimed his reward and received it. (Editor’s note: this was originally published in The Daily Ranchero. (Brownsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 35, Ed. 1 on Sunday, Dec. 8, 1867)
A QUEER FIND IN A WELL
Marshall, Nov. 25 – While digging a well on a lot of Mrs. B. H. Martin, in this place, a man dug up the gold head of a –
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