Show SAVES REASON OF PUSSY CAT Herald Printer Intervenes to Keep Her From Going Insane SHE LIKE TO MOVE JOINS COCKROACHES IN THE NEW COMPOSING ROOM A tortoise shell sheIl cat which for six months has made her habitation in The Herald composing room was saved from a violent attack of insanity pos possibly possibly sibly from death by suicide through the thoughtfulness of a printer Wednesday When the work of moving The Her Herald Herald ald plant to its new building was com commenced commenced ChrIstmas night the cat viewed the proceedings with a dismay that grew as the dismantling of the old composing room proceeded The dis dismay dismay may was manifested by hideous mew ings that Increased rapidly In violence coupled with a look of despair The printers feared that the cat her reason dethroned would jump into a hot metal pot and end her miserable existence After the plant had been moved the oat continued to haunt the old compos composIng composing Ing room until Wednesday afternoon a printer carried her protesting to the new composing room It was dark there and the eats cats distress continued until evening when the tho electric lights were turned on and the metal pots lighted Then her face lighted up and after sniffing the smoke from the metal and making a feverish Inspection of the room to see If she had really been restored to her legal place of residence the cat settled down to rest with pur rings of content She is perfectly happy again Dont Usually Last Long The cat In question contrary to the usual rule has become almost a fixture in The Herald composing room I Printer say and they should know that usually cats die quickly in n modern printing offices Either the metal laden atmosphere around linotype machines or association with printers causes them to have fits and they die a violent death The result is that in all large printing offices there Is an endless succession of cats who after violent of feline epilepsy pass to the happy hunting grounds Three months Is declared to be the av average rage life of a cat after It enters a printing establishment Cockroaches on Hand It Is a tradition of newspaper offices the world around that where there is isa isa a prInting office there will cockroaches be also and the new Herald building is no exception to the rule A few I cockroaches were discovered before the printers had fairly started work In n their new place and It is believed they left the old composing room In advance of the prInters themselves so as to be beon beon on hand In time timeA A newspaper office without cock cockroaches cockroaches roaches be a newspaper office Only journalists could thrive without men never could A has a peculiar attraction for forthe forthe the omnipresent cockroach and In Idle moments the telegraph editor who uses more paste than any other man in the theoffice theoffice office whistles for the cockroaches to come to him He lines them up on ondress ondress dress parade and if they present a afine afine fine military appearance feeds them paste out of the hand as a reward M Mice ice There Too One would think that In n a brand new building without the usual apertures for egress and ingress that mice for a short season at least would give the place a wide berth particularly as there was absolutely nothing for them to feed upon But the mice were inthe in inthe the Herald building in advance of the printers so the tortoise shell cat be before before fore she dies of fits and passes to the theother theother other side has a mission to perform t |