Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1907 — Ravenous Rats. [ARTICLE]

Ravenous Rats.

It is estimated that the rat does $50,000,000 worth of damage a year In England. In a slaughterhouse near Paris rats In a single night picked to the bone the carcasses of thirty-five horses. There Is very little that they will not eat; eggs, young birds and animals are among the dainties which they snap up In the ordinary course of business. But when pressed by hunger they will eat anything through which they can drive their terrible ieulli. Rat will eat rat. The Idea that a trapped rat will bite off an imprisoned leg and so escape Is now said to be wrong; it lq the other rats which do the biting. [They cat the captive.