Show cortous home bom tor for ft a none mou there is ft a mouse which ho has made its abode in a down town house in such buch ft a strange place and it has such regular and peculiar habits that its v vagaries are perhaps worth recording the ceiling of 0 the liquor shop is neatly painted and to protect it f from rom ries flies muslin WB was stretched across oss the roof of the room on one side aide of nt the room are heavy pillars with corinthian capitals the muslin passes just below these capitals and it is i in one on of them that tile the mouse has haa made ita home how it ever got there Is a mystery and how it has nian managed aged to live through the summer without anything to drink is a marvel but that it his has done don so 0 o is a tact fact its food supply haa been a curious one at 8 every evening the mouse leave isavei its sleeping place and then running abut tile the muslin catches catchen such flies as have found means of 0 getting between the ceiling and the muslin and as ai these ure are fairly numerous the little creature makes a hearty meal every evening but flies tire are evidently not fattening lor for the mouse is 18 ono one of the thinnest of its kind and though a young one has hai hardly grown at all throughout the summer and as flies are now happily getting scarce the animal will probably be a stunted specimen to the end of cl its dy days new york tribune |