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Show WOMAN WITH 500 PET WHITE RATS St. Louie, Aug. 5. While nearly five hundred white rats, large and small, squeaked In their cages, Miss If. C. Metzger, owner of tho animals, who had Just been evicted from tho s?cond floor premises at No. 1701 Franklin avenue, patrollod tho side walk late yesterday afternoon and with the assistance of two patrolmen from the Carr etrcet station protected protect-ed her pets and household goods. Some of the little animals had been lulled and wounded during the removal re-moval to the street, and Miss Metzger, Metz-ger, Indignant at tho usage they bad received, busied herself nursing the injured ones and preparing bread end milk for their supper. The rats, which attracted a large crowd of the curious, requiring continual con-tinual moving on from the officers, are not of the common variety, rut of Imported strains, according to Mss Metzger. Mo9t of them are Persian Per-sian and Japanese animal, and there are some of the Chinese var-l'Jy. var-l'Jy. All are pure white, except the Chinese, which have a broad black stripe running down tho middle of thtir backs. |