Show RAT TRAPS the way esau ar in eggs are regarded by abo as the natural emblem of watch fo ana practical effect Is given to tins idea among these people by the very curious use to emch they put them in their public buildings larty in those devoted to abo celebia uon of divine worship whoever en tors a coptic church cannot fall to notice the numerous ostrich agga egga which hang above and around him tho explanation Is simple the churches are much infested by rats and theae animals as experience has shown have been in the haut of crawl ing down the conla iff which the lamps are suspended for the purpose of get ting at the oil and drinking it to hinder our footed abo to each lamp Is passed through the shell of an ostrich egg winch la thus fixed at a moderate als canoe above the lamp the smooth polished of the shell offers an impassable harriet to the wily and ad venturous rodents BO that they in variably slide off and tumble to the ground if they attempt a passage |