Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1911 — DOG GUARDS BIG RHINOCEROS [ARTICLE]

DOG GUARDS BIG RHINOCEROS

Little Fox Terrier Fights Off Rata In Central Park Menagerie and Smiles Is Happy.

New York. —Jim, a little fox terrier that is one of the privileged characters around the Central Park menagerie, is sleeping every night now in the cage with Smiles, the rhinoceros, to protect the latter from rats. He is the best rat catcher that has ever been around the menagerie, outclassing all the traps by a ratio of 2 to 1. For a long time Smiles was not living up to his name. The rats frightened him until he became sullen. Now that Jim is on the Job every night the rhinoceros has a grin on his face that will not come off. A cat keeps the rats out of the lion house, but all the other houses are badly infested with the rodents, whloh care not to go near any of the traps set for them.