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Show CAT PLAYS PING-PONG. Massachutetts Town Can Boast of Intelligent Kitten, tn Bedford, Mass., thero Is an eight-months-old kitten who plays ping-pong by hlmsJf and does many tricks which are often performed by dogs, but seldom by cats. Ho will sit in imitation of a rabbit while ho begs for a bit of meat, and will do a regular danco on his hind legs In return for a second helping. Tiger Is ns Inquisitive as n monkey. If a box comes to tho house ho is the first to want tho cover removed. Ho gets into bureau drawers, inspects tho contents of visitors' suit cases if the lids are left unfastened, nnd last . Christmastime, whon a tree, hung - -..IBs ' Hl with prisents, was placed in ono of tho romis, Tiger, after lpoking it carefully over and perhaps wondering why ho IndU't noticed it before, climbed climb-ed up ti an easy porch among tho branches and proceeded to eat tho festoons of popped corn. When thero Is no ono disposed to play ba with Tiger ho calls tho gamo htnself, and at onco becomes the whoh team. Ho throws tho ball into tho air, bats it about with his paws, rins to tho top of tho stairs for a throw-down, and after winning a hot, haid gamo, 'curls himself up in a punch bowl for a snooze |