MISCELLANEOUS.

Kumara Times, Issue 185, 8 May 1877, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

At Memagtoig station, lo mi'lps front Yonog, Ne* South Waled, .330 >; ruri int 6 & Iriish-yardj and killed in onft evening, , Hie ijtf aiunv a less on thd last half-year’s operations,.;

“ The Company that owns this road tihall never get another cent of my Vnoney,” { aid an angry lady, on a train. How can you help-yourself? you’ve got to travel oq the road, or move to some other part of the tounfry,” sneeringly Veroarhed the conductor, who had offended her. “ Why,* retorted the lady, *“ I”1I pay my fare to you, and then I’ll life honed that the company will never the money!” In W. H. 'Gibson’s “ Complete

-American Trapper,” recently, we find -' the following Ofeuple method of catching Irafs“ A ’CratOr-tight barrel is tl.'e first required. Into this pour water to a 'depth of a fool. Nekt dam-

'pen a piece of vety thick paper, and over the top of the bartnl (like a tlrUU&ead), tying it securely below the ’topper hoops. When the paper dries it \rill become thoroughly fiat and tight* ‘ened. . Its • surface should then be 'stpswn Vrth bits of cheese, Ac., and the narrel so, placed that the rats may .jump ‘upon it from a fioighhobring 'surface. "As soon as the bait is gone a fresh •supply should be spread on the paper, nnd the satWc Operation Repeated for Several days, Until the rats get accustomed to_ visit the place for their re■gular Nations, 'fearlessly and without Suspicion. . Thfe is half the battle, and l the capture of the greedy victims of Confidence is now an dksy toatier. ifie bait should again be spteaSi as before, and % feVr pieces of cheese ’shduld be attached to the paper with gum. It is a good plan to linear parts •of the paper Vsth gtftn aVabfc, sprinkling the btoit Oa it. When, f dry, cot a ‘cross in the middle of the paper, and -leave the barrel to take cate of itself Und the rats. fifie first onecomes 'along Upies the tempting tocSsels, ftnd with his acdastOmdJ confidence jumps upon the pa’ps*. S;e suddenly finds himself in the VaterUt the bottOm 'of the barrel, Und tile papef' a closed and ready for the next confer. ihfere is Uo% long to Vait. A Victim 'SOon tumbles fti to kedp ddlripatiy ’ with the fiitt. -A third ’arid a raUrch soon follow, UUd a *do2icn Or triOSb are somfetibfes thVis entrapped in a Very short spade’Of ttUie.”