AN AMERICAN CAT.
[To SKR EDITOR OF TIPS " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A New York publishing firm, whose premises occupy the sixth and seventh Aeon; of one of the city's "skyscrapers," has two black cats which bare been in its service for several years. These cats are usually domiciled in the editorial de- partment on the seventh floor, where they have many friends among the employees. Recently, for certain reasons, the cats were " degraded" to the printing department on the sixth -floor. This treatment they naturally resented, and the elder, graver and more resourceful of the two, has hit upon the fol- lowing ingenious expedient to regain his old haunts and friends. Every morning at eight o'clock he waits at the gates r of an ascending elevator, and entering with the connivance of the operator is conveyed to the seventh floor, where he alights. It should be added that the oat is somewhat " advanced in years," and, moreover, being an American citizen, does not see the force of climbing a " stairway " when be can go up by the
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