Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1909 — Stories By the Way. [ARTICLE]

Stories By the Way.

Strange as the story may appear of rats removing hen’s eggs from the bottom to the top of a house by one rat lying on his back and grasping tightly his oval burden, with his forepaws, while his comrades drag him by. the tail, I have no reason, writes a naturalist, to disbelieve it. I have seen two brown rats accomplish the. feat from stair to stair in a farm house, the first anxious rodent pushing the egg up with its hind legs, and the second assistant lifting it up with its forgpfegs. It was the best athletic feat I ever witnessed, but it is not out of the common. The rat will extract the contents from a bottle of olive oil, slipping in his tail, and repeating the maneuver until he has consumed all that ean be reached. It id in time of suaden mishap or accident that Chamberlain’s Liniment can be relied upon to take the place of the family doctor, who cannot always be found at the moment. Then it is that Chamberlain’s Liniment” is never found wanting. In cases of sprains, cuts wounds and bruises Chamberlain’s Liniment takes out the soreness and drives away the pain. Sold by all dealers. c Wm. M. Munson, of Mitchell, one of the best known men in southern Indiana and at one time one qf the foremost republican politicians of the •tate, bas been declared of Unsound iuind. Mr. Munson is nearly 85 years old and has large property interests. James Ross, a prosperous farmer living in the southern part of Henry county is loser just S6OO in currency through the visit to his home of a thief. Ross had just received the money and intended to deposit it in a bank. The burglar gained entrance through a window.