Logan Republican | 1908-04-08 | Page 7 | His Rat Trap

Hla Rat Trap. Onulm has a youngster who Is an amateur electrician, and who has a very Ingenious ny of killing rats. Tho prying rodent la caught In an or-dinar; or-dinar; tap, the bottom of which is covered vlth tin, Tho Omaha boy has n.Einall dynamo of his own manufacture manu-facture mil one win? connecting with the ilynarm Is fastened to the tin lln-HH lln-HH of the t)np and another Is thrust Into the prisoner's cell. Tho well-known well-known proi enslty of a caged rat to do battle asserts Itself, and ho aolzcs the wire between his teeth. In so doing do-ing ho makes the mistake of his llfo. Tho circuit Is complete, his Jaws close on tho wire with a death grip, and without a squeak, and almost without a quiver, lie pusses Into a state whero ho will bother mankind no more.