come see the amazing smart cats

thanks bibliotheque nationale de france. marked PD
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb42578955r

Come see the chats savants!  This show poster of 1890-1900 has its marquee blank, the better to fill in the next appearance of the clever, skillful cats.  Watch them frolic on a swing!  Watch them balance on each other, walk a tightrope, wind round bottles, jump through hoops of fire! I don't want to watch them do that last one.
There were many troupes of performing cats in centuries past; I have read of one owned by an M. Bonnetty in 1890, which I can tell you about tomorrow.