Show bats rats afflict stockholm stockholm and its eivIr environs ons are but fering from a plague ot of rats which if it Is not checked may later lead to a P plague lague of d sease the evil has gone on vin unheeded for years and now the pests are so numerous that people are crying out for energetic measures the rats career about the city ton tov ard even ing and may be seen romping even in crowded thoroughfares so bold have they become owing to the laxity of the authorities not a house in the town is tree free from the pest and serious damage Is being done to foundations it Is proposed to offer a premium for each rat destroyed after the policy adopted by the copenhagen corpora tion |