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Show REVENGE AND SUICIDE OF A RAT. l'tie Koiirnt runUhr a riiynlclan for Kxiu i Infilling on Itn Hody. Dr, T. J. Richie, a physician of Beaver Fulls, l'a., has bad an experience with a rat which bo will not forget. Ho 1ms been experimenting ou rats, dogs and cats and other small animal for tho purpose of studying tho process of digestion. di-gestion. Ho would place the animal under the influence of chloroform, and . then after cutting them open and noting not-ing the working of tho digestive organs would sew up tho Wound, anoint it with a healing salve and then let the animal jro, Saturday be captured a large rat and placed it under the influence of tho drug, when, to his surprise, he discovered that the animal was one that he bad previously pre-viously operated upon. Ho examined it for a second, and then, just as he turned to bis caso to get the necessary instruments to make further investigations, tho rat revived, jumped from the table, sprang into the open firo-placo firo-placo and escaped up tho chimney. The doctor, thinking tho rat would pop out of the top of the chimney, ran out on the ut root to see it , but no rat apiK'ared. That night a ho wan asleep bo was awakened by a sharp pain in his finger, and opening bis eyes be saw a rat, which proved to lie the one which had escaped from him tho previous owning, scamper off tho bed and up tho chimney again. Ii.i examined his linger and found it badly bitten. Ho washed and hound up the wound and went to sleep, only to bo again awakened by the suno rat biting his nose. Ho -based it away, but begot little sleep that night, for the rat kept returning, and wln-u ho attempted to kill it the wily little creature always successfully took rcfugo in the chimney. The next night, and for several nights aftortvard, tho rat disturbed his rest by its persistent nnd bloodthirsty attacks. Dr. Richie- couldn't help but bo curiously curious-ly interested in the little fellow's v.-el- faro, even though bis experience was rather unpleasant. Filially ho Mopped up tho cbitiinev, but the rat managed to get out. lie then left tiio door of his room open, thinking the rat would scizo tho chance to leave flic premitf si. Ho ttlso net a trap for it, but bo didn't catch it until Monday Mon-day evening. When tho rat saw tho doctor it showed every sign of terror, and when lie put Iim tramp on tho tablo and brought out his bottlo of chloroform and r-ponge, it gavo n despairing wiuealt, tore savagely at his abdomen with its sharp teeth until un-til the wound, only imperfectly healed from tho previous operation, buret open, its bowels pushed out, itnd the poor lit-tlo lit-tlo nnimal rolled over, kicked convulsively convul-sively r.ml died. It bad committed suicide sui-cide rather than submit to another operation. opera-tion. Butler (Pa.) Citizen. |