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Show FREAK RODENT MEETS DEATH. Two Headed Rat Killed While Trylnj to Run Into Two Holes. Port Jcrvln, N. Y. An unusual curiosity and freak of naturo In tho shape ot n two headed rat wit killed In tho Victoria hotel, Sussex street Tho proprietor of tho hotel, Henry ItlchnrdBon, heard the rat squeal In the lioUom of tho dummy waltor shaft. Ho Bent ono of his men to kill It and remove It. The rodent was slain with a club, when tho discovery wan mado that it had two heads attached to ono body. Iloth heads wero per- , fectly formed nnd tho two hocks holding hold-ing tho bends Joined the body at tho shouldorH, which wero abnormally broad. It Is unfortunate that tho rat was not cuptuied allvo, nB It would havo proved a great curiosity. It wns at first supposed that tho rodent Hqueezed Its body through a hula nt the. bottom of tho elevator and could not got back. Hxumlnntlon of tho shaft led to Uio dlticovory of two rat holes closo together, and It was found thnt each head of tho rat took a sopnrato liolo to escnpo, Its ona body, of course, preventing It. |