A Kansas gentleman named M'Gowau has been eaten by rats while in a drunken stupor. We never snspected rats of being fastidious m their diet, hut with this our last grain of respect for the rodent tribe vanishes. The animal that would eat a drunken Kansas colonel (of course he was a colonel) need never try to borrow a dollar in this office. At the same time the deceased M'Gowan '9 fate suggests many grave thoughts. Por instance, what trouble there'll be about gathering tip the M'Gowan fragment*. You
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 168, 16 July 1881, Page 2
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