The Davenport daily gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1869, 1857-10-30


piled with large aud very fine cranbcrries.
We noticed yesterday before Messrs Hare
man 4 Hills store, a few doors above the Post
Office, s~vvafy sacks of ine cranherries, wLivh
they had Just received from Minnesota. They
are s>Iling by retail at l0sle &c per quart
wlSrER vwcKTAstxs.-our citizens ceae-
rally are laying In their winter supply Of veg
ssablss. They are ncw plenty and cheap and
IL Is much more economical To huy them ty
the quantity now. than To purchase them at
retail daritk the winter. al two % three time,
the price. Every citizen Who has the cellar
and the means should attend to this matter
before the frosts OF the approaching winter
render il too late
Rsrs--A British periodical few months
ago performed kind OF moral resurrection
upon rats and elevated them IL not to the NJ
spec, aud general confidence OF humanity, At
character ,sti,s. Hunted, prosecuted aud With
= trap ani psssa IL not lash in every hai.I
10 sceurRe ,hem through the world the rat has
led sorry existence, bat in many localities
formidAble dsspotism. Not even the British
Reviews letter u accr~dane~. detailing his
sharp Instincts, II NOT almosi human reasan.
hi, life Of intrigues, his cunning and dpion,-
acyS his ssais Of industry, and sascandius
perseverance, under dinxslsiss, his aetaall.
wonderful labors Of mind and body TO r.
cure his palatiai objects. his oceanic travels
which have made him an inhabitaut of ahnoss
to the culinary department Of sourmands la
some lands, and his individual aud e-Estai
SUPPORT VI the Md glove postio.s. ef civilized
humanity not all these Kind words for the rat
have saved him from the most decided disar.
probation Of mankind, and irom the p.sil~ss
prosecutions of ratslsne aud steel tra,sa aud
wire circuuiye,tions, wherever his sharp teeth.
backing his apletitiziug Instincts. have pro.
drncs against the rat family which must neu.
tslize a aIeat n4any II the Reviews compi
ments. We sio s,.a "Lp.ct 50 much that the,
oestinaiei, persi.t ia refusing to be- poisoned,
as We have attempted 10 carry thsm sLroasha
severe course of experiments In Toxioolasy
without much sncces.--bnt Nc do have 4 sos.
ersign contempt for that animal I've he rat or
man, which win take advantage VI his .l,
lows misfostu,ss to CRAFTY selfish aims. Our
poisoning experiments having proven rather
failure, ~e tried q steel trap One unfor,a.
nate ussaabsr sf the tA9 tailed iAmily Intro
duced an investigation into the qualities of
this instrument and was taken In" In the
morning ws found nothise hut his naked homes
AMI heal. His fellow rats had literally made
= feast VI him during the night They had
proven tbsasslvss rat cannibals. and thss~fore
entitled 10 no sympathy from civilization
They had, indeed. literally wiped oui, . at
least from our hearts, all those warm feelings
Of respect with which We had been imba~d
BY the Reviews article. There il nov no SAL.
ing grace with us. Rats are rats, such .. ~e
had always helieysa them Their besa in-
siincts are for pluBdsr appetite IL the gov.
ernine principIe-ard this principle IL seems,
will even take in" their own species. W.
have friend, who from rat bite received
yesrs ago, 10 ssill IN invslid, aud is bsing hur.
rad " has grave BY rai vssom. They are d.
most disgustiIg as snake 70 the eye and 10
the touch, and while the latter sre e.mpara.
lively harmless snd innoc~ui tA~ foxnass are
raveOoss and destructive. We hsse seeel trap
evidence that rats win not spare each ether.
We know they do not spare us or our propert,
Why then should Ne spare them We ~aa't
do Il, especially ~ We has. sosas doahis
whether they viii much longer spare a-.-
They are this fall worse nuisance in Daveis.
port than they ever were before. The hand
of man aud the claws Of cats and dog. sheald
lie turned against thsm