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MUMMIFIED CATS AS MANURE The Birmingham Post 1 Feb 1890 London Correspondence: The Belfast Newsletter 3rd Feb 1890 Aberdeen Weekly Journal 4th Feb 1890 Dundee Courier and Argus 4th Feb 1890 Dundee Courier and Argus 4th Feb 1890 Pal Mall Gazette 4th Feb 1890 The Daily Post 4th Feb 1890 (Longer article in the Daily Post on 16th about the role of the cat in Egypt etc…) The Essex Standard, West Suffolk Gazette, and Eastern Counties' Advertiser 8th Feb 1890 Bristol Mercury and daily Post 11th Feb 1890 Leeds Mercury 11th Feb 1890 (A summary report also in 15th Feb edition) Liverpool Mercury 11 Feb 1890 The Birmingham Post 11 Feb 1890 The Huddersfield Daily Chronicle 11 Feb 1890 The Standard (London) 11 Feb 1890 Manchester Times 15th Feb 1890 From “Fun”: The Chester Observer 15th Feb 1890 Reynold’s Newspaper 16th February 1890 Ipswich Journal March 1st 1890 Bristol Mercury and Daily Post 13th March 1890 North Wales Chronicle 15th March 1890 North East Daily Gazette 7th Feb 1891 Liverpool Mercury 14th Sept 1894 The Times 2nd May 1935 Mummified cats The Daily Telegraph [London (UK)] 06 Aug 2005: 023. SIR - Cats were indeed once worshipped by ancient Egyptians (Letters, August 5). They mummified them and buried them in sacred cemeteries in Beni Hassan, 100 miles from Cairo. Four thousand years later an Alexandrian merchant dug up 180,000 of them and sold them to a Liverpudlian guano and bone dealer. In 1890, two steamships, Phou and Thebes, shipped 19 tons of disintegrating cats to Liverpool for conversion into fertiliser. Some of the more complete mummies were auctioned, and it was reported that the auctioneer used a "pussy's head as a hammer'' to amuse his clients. One of these cats is in the Liverpool Museum. As Mark Twain said: "If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but would deteriorate the cat.'' Val Lewis Shepperton, Middx Freeborn County Standard, Albert Lea, Minn USA .

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