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Show DISLIKE SMELL OF KEROSENE. Cats Particularly Will Not Stay Where Oil It Used. "I never know until this winter," said tho superintendent of n dog and cat hospital, "how thoroughly most animals detest tho smell of kerosene. Several times tho steam heating apparatus ap-paratus In this place went on a strlko and wo tried to raise tho temperature by means, of an oil stove. Tho smoll of tho oil produced a regular mutiny among tho animals. Cats are particularly partic-ularly sensltlvo to tho odor of koro-sono. koro-sono. Next door to my houso Is a stationery storo which has been heated heat-ed all winter long with an oil stovo. la tho beginning of tho season tho proprietor owned a flno cat that seemed woll satisfied with his com-fortablo com-fortablo quarters. No sooner, how-over, how-over, was that stovo lighted than tho cat deserted the stationer and sought a homo for the winter In a steam heated lint further down tho street. Ho comes back onco In awhllo on a visit, hut tho smell of tho oil pre-vents pre-vents his becoming n regular Inhabitant Inhab-itant of tho store." |