Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1877 — Sagacity of Mice. [ARTICLE]

Sagacity of Mice.

Captain Gilges, who ia ejnplpp-d at the Kansas and Mi*sonri Bridge, wae cracking some hickory jiuff poen’ly in the watch* office at one end of the bridge, hit a'jteppon yap afrefted by the apPWIW W fiyerfl W«« •* Boor looking the discarded nut-shells, which ye| ppn twined email particles of kenialf. Thinking to watch their mantemjpa hp stepped outside the door of hi* office. He did not remain long until one of the little animals took go ppp of the shells, and climbing • WHWIiPF dlstemw np the wall let it ft fa #<W, This was rebad eluded had become loo«h cnongfl *9 bp readily eatrtoirted: When tbro,9gl> with »“ “»»" 4 twvi •fcrwp’ »rrn>

showing clearly to th* watcher that th* first iustano* waa not a mere accident.—-Aera** we'<Af £*. J Thus.