Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

A friend from West Hartford informs us that a drove of nearly two thousand rats, were seen early one morning last week, on their way from this city. They had been driven away, doubtless, by chloride of lime, the smell of which these long tailed individuals seem particularly to abominate. The gardens and roads about the city were “tracked up’ with these four-legged pedestrians, which have fled from before the face of a cholera preventive. Similar facts are recorded in a Providence paper. Rats and mice have vacated barns, cellars, stables and houses, where chloride of lime has been sprinkled. Hartford Mirror.