Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1895 — A Queer Mouse Catcher. [ARTICLE]

A Queer Mouse Catcher.

A hen that catches mice and eats them is a novelty that has recently come to light in Kansas City, Mo. A widow, who lives in the outskirts of that city, is the owner of this hen with certain feline propensities. Recently the widow heard a commotion an the barnyard, and upon going to learn the cause of it, saw all the chickens and the roosters in a circle around the old hen, but at a respectful distance. They were clucking loudly. The hen in the center was industriously pecking at an ani'ated object. The woman saw that -was* mouse, and called her dog. But the hen, when she saw Fido coming, seized the mo,use, which was yet alive, and swallowed it after two or three spasmodic gulps. She had been playing with it as a kitten would.— '[San Francisco Examiner. Bouquets of 'colored leaves are to 'he carried in the ipiace of flowers this winter.