Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1860 — Bitten by a Rat. [ARTICLE]

Bitten by a Rat.

In September last, Mr. John Wood, ot Little York, Montgomery county was bitten by a large Norway rat, from the effects of which he suffered for several weeks, intense pain, lie came home, late at night, and while reaching into the crib for corn to feed his horse, he was seized ou the hand by an entrapped rat. In about two weeks he was taken sick. His hand and arm was much swollen; and high fever, severe vomiting and purging and great pain attended the case.. The poison of the bite diffused itself throughout his system, and came near proving fatal. He has entirely lost the use of his right arrp. —Dayton Enquirer. OOT-A rEa^e child was born in Standisbury, Mass./last week, healthy and well-formed, with a/*%vell defined pair of soft,.silky, whiskerpfstretching from ear to ear.” The child if/now five weeks old, bright and lively, with a.growing beard.