Rat- catching ExtraorDIETARY.
Italpli Corbitj" an ingenious twelveyear«6ld boy of Hpneybrook, Qhester County Pa., : has devised a* novel 'way of getting rid of rats, which infested his father's cellars; He was constructed out of old fruit jars a battery of three places upon a large iron plate, which Ley den l'ars, which he connects and touches the'tinfoil on the outside. The bait is so arranged that when the fat steps up the plate and seizes the bait he at once makes the connecii6n . between the out* side and inside ;of;thejaraj and theyyaro' ! discharged tfirp^gh.hiSjbpdy killing him ; j literally as quick' as iightning. He, i charges tbe ; jars"by' means of ah electric machine, also^constiucte'd by himself;' ; He ran a couple s.ot^'wires through the ; i floor of the cellar.from :the room above, and as soon as, be would hear a rat squeak he would immediately re-charge ; the battery The first time he pnt the i machine m operation he : slaughtered twentyrfive rats m the npace of three hours, and m 'twp'.-j days the cellar was ': en tirely cleared of the . pests.— Mercan r tile Age.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 159, 11 June 1883, Page 2
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183Rat- catching Extraor-DIETARY. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 159, 11 June 1883, Page 2
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