New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-08
RATS.

have attained their years W "9OioIVni marry
and are given in marriage, II turn breed up new
fmes of rats and thus at the end OF the third year
,bo o,ioinal nair become the Abraham and Sarah Of
,sca already amounting TO 6jS, SOS individual rats
NJ a. ten rats require as much food as one human
beip0 II requires great stretch of the imagination
., form an idea of the loss which an unhindered multi
,icaiion Of the rat gentry would entail upon COM
nuDty
Iuokly, the propagation Of these verInin depends
= resi Dca ure upon the supply Of food at their COM
rsnS; and when this fails, they entertain no con-
,c.rtious scrup,es upon the matter of eating
,,o,her-s cauuibalism which we find TO be highly
prsisewOrthy.
The rat is neat and clearly animal True they
sbabit places which to our noses offer anything but
odors sweet but that is no: their fau is their mis-
,rgre Nor are they subjected to it from their folly,
A. exhibited in the election Of knaves, fools and
,win5les 20 high places of trust and power. If con-
damned by misfortune to- dwell in uncleeny places,
they Only take 80 much the more pains 20 per-
sopsl cleanliness bv constant washing and purifying,
after the manner Of their enemy the cat but, as est
Goocri, &c.
IA. skins have Of late wears been found very vaua-
be for the manufacture Of ladies' finest KID gloves,
and this fact has led to the formation Of company by
be Sewer Inspectors Of Paris, similar in plan, though
A. what less extensive in its operations, TO the Hud-
son Bay or the American Fur Company. An annual
slaughter of the innOcents takes place in the subterra
mean City OF Paris and the span of the rats life is
shortened by for them worse than Spanish Inqui
si.ion. No animal possesses finer and gOsser fur
than the rat. 1t furnishes the very best article for the
manufacture Of nice Partisan bearer hats and the skim
in ali the qualities which adapt for gloves far
masses the best kid For the fine extra priced
beaver which the Rev. Cream Cheese takes off when
he shakes the hand Of sweet Flirtla encased in rat
,krs at 81 IS pair he is indebted to the sewers Of
Paris
Few races have more venerable and warlike his
tov than the rats Their chronicles extend back with
those of mankind, embracing enigratOns and inml-
0rstions the driving out Of old nationaltes and the
founding Of new wars and rumors of wars usurpa-
tons tyrannies and almost whatsoever else forms the
ssp,a and basis of mans ancient history. Wherever
nan has gone, there have gone with him (dTcades
enJo7 the rats. They came with him from the
ORIENT they followed the Hun, the Goth, the Vanda
Tie stronger destroyed the weaker race or drove
before its cOnqueIing march. At the present time
change of this sort is going in the sewers OF Paris
The common brown Norway rat has been possessOr
for many long years Of that subteuanean kingdom,
b now The stronger Russian or Tartar race has found
il way thither and destructive war rs waging The
Tartar rat is native Of Central Asia, and followed
The Monaghan race in its movement Westward Ho.
In London on the other hand the brown species gets
ihe upper hand Of the black which has been cOnsd-
cred on the whole, as being metropohtanas the coun
ty sends its young men to the city to become in
sohcr generation the moving power to the exclusion
Of "old families" Scholars are divided upon the
point when William the Conqueror, of the black rats,
A. Epc -l;sl ~ ota
that the animal was native of Persia and that he left
that country after the great earthquake of 1877,
the yolga near Astracban, and moved west with the
course Of empire" Another authority decides that
| Ae blach rat came TO England in the ship which
brought the Elector of Hanover over to assume the
AEnglsh crown This opinion is comfort to a writer
lin late number Of The Quarterly Rcrieo and that
ory organ naturally takes strong ground against the
brown Wing rat, and favors in like proportion the
Torv arsocrac black race. Another theory is, that
he Norman rat came by way of Ireland from Gibral-
atar but, in fact deep archaeological vail hangs be-
sfo the eares, ages of rat history only to be raised
when some Moses Of his gives us new Genesis
aud Exodus beginning with quadrupedal Adam and
Eve Of rat-kind.
A. the Saxons did not succeed in clearing the British
hles Of the Celt-tha great progenor of ~hte Amer
leans according to certain chronological philosophers
~ here and there the black rat of England makes
| good its defense against its invaders. In union Is
strength. The weaker race feels this, and, adopting
cur MOTTO, 80 Z pluribus Hanm" where they exist IN
sufficient numbers they join to the rescue and remain
,ictors. In England long ago the natural history of
rs.s became favore subject of speculation and OBJ
4 tervaon and numberless are the experiments that
| have been tried upon them. Through such expert
Utute Science has received many valuable contrbu-
hot-among them, this: that if you shut up in a box
aseo,,al number of black and brown rats over night,
Tie black ones disappear in proportion to the lack OF
| tod SUPPLIED them; end that, though fully supplied
with food. the Norway browns gnaw of the ears OF
| their black enemies, as dainty tidbt
Rats are great travellers. They spread themselves
| over al c.imes and countries Old vessels become
crowded with them. 1t is no very uncommon occur
renee Tor the rat eatchers Of Calcutta to take 300 from
an old East Indiaman. Could the adventures OF some
Individuals be recorded, rather translated from the
rs,toncue we might have accounts of more cTcum-
nsyigations than ever performed by any one man.
The real slip rat is neater animal IN appearance thah
The brown Norwegian having the gears, the taper
rg hose long tail and dark fur of the English rat In
some vessels, however a colony OF eaeh VIII exist
distinct aud separate, one holding the bows, the otner
| TIE stern.
bN''ia '''S NVyaSeS h"eE NV up ~
long as there is freight on board they can obtain
plentiful supply Of food but their suferings from the
want Of water often intense. When cut oil from
scppy they will ascend the rigging during storms and
dunk Of the water collected n the folds Of the SAILS
and they have been known TO gnaw into spirit casks
IND drink more than their heads could well bear
They have fine ears for the sound of running water,
aud cst through lead pipes to get at it.
The cable when a ship is at anchor near the land or
!ng il dock, forms bridge which the rats use in
leaving entering a vessel far as it extends and
eben not reaching TO the land they leap from il and