A SHOWER OF kaist thousands of rodents borne by tornado algiers dec 19 tho town of bougie which was visited by ft shower of rats the other day is still busy ex terminating its army of unwelcome guests for many years thousands of rats it with many hundreds of monkeys inhabited the courana Cou raya a high moun tain towering over bougie the great storm which swept them from the tain arose early in the afternoon and boon developed into a furious hurricane huge funnel shaped cloud of dust and atones hurled itself over the mountain destroying everything in its path oddly enough most of the monkeys managed to hold on to the pine trees although the larger portion of them were killed but literally thousands of rats were car ried high into the air and strewn in vast numbers over the grand and the suburbs of bougie abo tribes of the neighborhood who are extremely were terribly frightened and fled in all directions spreading terror oater the district they believed that the rats were sent down from the skies to punish them and that the end of the word bad come in the town the more were less superstitious and promptly set to work to kill those rate which were not already dead but there were so many of them still alive and they found such convenient hiding that the hunt is still going on alie sub prefect of bougie went out into the country on his motorcar motor car to rp amaure the Ka byles and finally cd in pacifying the chiefs that the people returned to their homes three queries arise out of this yarn how docs the american man accumulate money if ins wife spends it aha t kind of beautiful home is it whir the man is at hi daily grind by 8 a rn and hardly sees his home in his baste i get dollars and what kind of woman is it who finds such happonen happ inen in being married to a mere dollar shark