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

See this reference to the fire - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1911

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Maine Photography, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group. Wow - We have an office in the Federal Building in Bangor where the new Post Office is....This is pretty neat.

Richard thank you for the reference so nice to know the history

Google Image search thinks it's a polar bear!

He seems to have long hair and a very long beard.

Lauder Bros became the famous Lafayette Studios.......

‘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)