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A Rat of Taste and Talent.

      A story is told of a recently deceased rat who obtained oil from a narrownecked bottle by dipping his tail therein. Then he licked the oil from his long and well-oiled tail and waxed fat. The truth of the story is certified by reputable men, and is contained in “Stories of Animal Sagacity,” a […]

A Rat Milks A Cow.

     On going into my own cow-shed a short time since to see a cow that had a young calf. I found her quietly chewing her cud, and to my astonishment, I observed a large rat lying at full lenth between her hind legs, sucking vigorously at one of her teats. My first impression was […]

To Drive Away Rats.

     If you are pestered with rats, try the method suggested by the Boston Cultivator: “Take a barrel with one head, put in sufficient water to drown the rats. Fasten over the top some thin, elastic covering a drumhead, or sheepskin with the wool off will do; put in meat or some kind of bait […]

County Overrun With Rats.

     Woodford County is the scene of a rat pest. Farmers have been holding their corn cribs for a long time and the rats have been growing strong and healthy on a straight corn diet. They have bred with frightful rapidity, and now that the corn is being hauled away they look for new sources […]

His House Burned By Rats.

     By the time Stephen Perletice, of Chicago, gets through with the Illinois Humane Society, the police and two or three insurance companies he will know enough not to set fire to any more rats. Some of the retribution that is coming to him has reached him already, for the poor beasts which he tortured […]

A Tough Rat Story.

     The following incredible “rat story” is vouched for by one of the well known brick masons of this city, who with several of his family, watched the performance, which illustrates an animal genuity and cunning almost equaling human reason.      A basket of eggs was placed on the floor, and two rats adopted the […]

Experiments On Rats.

     An amusing experiment on rats was recently perpetrated in a mercantile house in Petersburg, Vt. Two of these animals had been trapped, and it was decided to try the effect of whisky upon them. Forty drops were administered to each of them by force, and the result awaited. They were placed in a wide […]

City Is Invaded By Thousands Of Enormous Rats.

Rodents Which Have Made Their Home Under Bridge, Driven From Refuge. Some Portions Overrun. Small Army Of Pests Seen To Make Their Way Up Genesee St. A Few Days Ago.      Waukegan has been invaded!      Thousands of invaders have made their appearance and are overrunning the entire city. There is a possibility that battery C […]

Ravages by Rats.

     It has been estimated that the economic loss from rats in the United States is $200,000,000 a year. In other estimates before the war, the annual damage in the United Kingdom was $70,000,000. As a carrier of bubonic plague and other diseases, the rat is charged with the loss of more human lives than […]

Thorough-Bred Rats.

     Mr. C. Clark, of O’Plain, gives us the following rat story, for the truth of which he vouches. A few nights since he placed an old sheep in his barn, closing the doors in such a way that nothing could get in. The next morning he went to the barn and discovered the sheep […]