Rat And Rattler

A Kentucky man caught a big rattleenake 5% f eet long and kept it in nis store in a box with a glass cover as a curiosity. Not long ago he put a rat and a frog into the box to feed his rattlesnake. The next morning the frog was out of sight, but the rat was still there and apparently very indifferent to the snake's presence. ïhe rat remained undisturbed all that dny, but the groceryman confidently expected the snake to make a meal off the rodent that night. In this, however, he was mistaken. The next morning when be exarniued the box hefouud the snake dead and the rat perched upon its head. A large place in the rattlesnake's hide showêd that the rat had satisfied his hunger with a dish of rattlesnake. The box gave evidence of astruggle between the snake and the rat, and the marks npon the snake's body sliowed that the rat had been quicker with his teeth than the snake had been with its fangs. The rat was uninjnred and was kept as a curiosity. - New Orleans Picayune. "VVhois this Dr. Holmes?" asked a lady of a New Eugland bookseller recently, according to the Buston Literary Wor]l. "I've never heard of him, bnt his wife, Mary J. Holmes, writ'es lovely books !"