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Show Tlio Rata Took the Morning Paper. A family of rats here have amazingly disturbed the family in whose cellar they dwelt. For several days in succession the morning paper, which was left upon the front steps of tho house early even morning, was missing. Complaint was made at tho office of the paper, and it was found that the sheet had been properly prop-erly delivered right alnn Some days later a neighbor, who had arisen early in the morning, happening to look out of his window, saw two large . rats upon the doorstep of the house opposite. He watched their movements for a while, and saw them take the morning papei Had disappear with it under the piazza He reported what he had seen, and an investigation showed that the rats had burrowed down from beneath the porch to the cellar, and, in a secluded Bpot, had built a nest and were rearing a promising batch of young. The nest was constructed con-structed out of Hartford morning newspapers. news-papers. Hartford Telegram. |