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Show RATS' NEST PUT THE PIANO OUT OF TUNE NEW TORK. April I. A piano in the parlor of Mrs. James M. Heldon in Broad street. Bloomfield, N. J.. went on the rampage, and the sounds it produced when attempts were marie to play it resembled re-sembled distant thunder. Mrs. Beldon and her daughters tried to ascertain the cause of the trouble, but failed. David P. Lyall, a piano-tuner, unraveled un-raveled the mystery. He found In the piano loaf sugar, chicken bones, and the remnants of a number of greenbacks, taken there by rats. In one corner of the piano was a nest lined with yellow and black feathers, which the rats had taken from the Beldon Bel-don canary bird, which was found dead a few days ago on the parlor flonr, minus Its feathers. The family cat was driven out of the house because of t he bird's death. The children are hunting for the cat. |