remains

You get a lot of dead mice in church organs. You need to hoover them out periodically, or they turn to dust and make the pipes cipher. Dead cats are less common, in my experience.

Okay, I know I requested more cat photos, but this wasn't quite what I meant :-)

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Via Trove, this from 1887 - " ... The tomb of the Earl of Kildare, a huge, plain structure, usurped the place of the high altar when altar and sacrifice were no longer needed; and a motley collection of other tombs, tablets, and statues (almost all of Protestant days) perpetuate the memory of local nonentities and historical villains in epitaphs "so flattering to all, that surely death hath claimed the good alone"—an instructive contrast with the plain, unvarnished date tale and the humble orate of the olden Catholic days. On a shelf stand two altar candle-sticks and a gilt tabernacle. An interrogatory look elicits from the custodian the unwilling information that they were kept over as relics of the time when King James set up Roman worship in Christ's Church — for a brief season. In reverent proximity to the tabernacle are the mummified bodies of a cat and a rat, discovered by some workmen wedged fast in a crevice behind the great organ. They are in excellent form and preservation. Every muscle in pussy's frame is strained to the utmost tension in unavailing efforts to reach the little rodent, who has taken refuge in a narrow slit in the wall, just one little inch beyond the reach of his pursuer's deadly claws. The custodian evidently looked upon the mummies as the gems of his collection, speaking of them with unwonted volubility, and "letting-off" for the thousandeth time a venerable jest about the fryingpan and the fire. ... From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170599522?searchTerm=c... (half way down column 4)

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2008 via Martin J murphy

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MACKAY SIXTEEN BUSINESS PREMISES DESTROYED. (By Electric Telegraph.) (from our own correspondent.) MACKAY, February 23. A fire broke out at about 2.30 this morning and destroyed about one-half of the buildings on the east side of Sydney-street and nine shops in Victoria-street. The origin of the fire is unknown but it is supposed it started at the rear of Barnes's saddlery shop in Sydney-street. The flames spread north and south with terrible rapidity. On the north side the progress of the fire was arrested after the stationer's shop kept by Mrs. Malone, a widow, had been totally destroyed, but on the south side, the efforts of the fire brigade and public were not so successful. The buildings were nearly all old and built of wood, and before 6 o'clock no less than sixteen business places were destroyed. Tho premises destroyed were those of Mrs. Malone, stationer; Rose, oyster saloon; Claverne, tailor; Duffy, storekeeper; Grim- stone, auctioneer; McKenny, saddler, Barnes, saddler; Wills's Hotel; Blackwell, watch-maker; Davison, tobacconist; McInnes, commission agent; Queensland National Bank; Wright, solicitor; Kenna, draper (one of two shops); and two empty stores owned by W. March. Unfortunately, there was no water available until the tide was high in the river when the fire engine was supplied from that source. The Fire Brigade was most energetic but worked under great disadvantage. The damage amounted to about £13,000, £6,000 of which is covered by insurance. Source: The Brisbane Courier; 25 Frb 1889 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3492923

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‘Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone; it’s with O’Leary in the grave’ Could it be John O Leary? Irish Fenian.

O Mac I would say "Yes!" At first I thought John O'Leary's nose was too long. onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/objects/9135/members-... (1886) One of six artworks by John Butler Yeats in the National Gallery of Ireland - click the arrows on the link above. He died in 1907 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O%27Leary_(Fenian)