Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1894 — A Mouse That Ate Jelly. [ARTICLE]

A Mouse That Ate Jelly.

New York Sun. “I had always had a sort of idea," said a man, “that rats and mice confined themselves chiefly to wood, and lead pipe, and cheese and bread, and plain food like that, but I find now that they not only have good appetites, but that they like good things. I hear, for instance, that mice got into a closet in my house in which home-made jellies are kept and gnawed the paper off a tumbler of jelly and ate half the contents of the tumbler. I pever before heard of mice eating jelly, and it gives me a better opinion of them to know that they do,"