The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-10-01

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We having become composed, and
expressed our qualification at having
saved our several steaks, Kit let In !.
black and tan loose. The rat attempted
to run around the pit; but the dog, with
the velocity of All arrow, sprang upon it,;
we heard one click of his teeth. and the
next instant saw him OIL top Of the wire
cage, looking wistfully down at the rats
which covered beneath him. The
black and tan did not look to see whcth-
er he had killed the rat or not. He
knew there was no use of his feeling
any solicitude on that point. A dog
that has been trained to kill 100 rats in
u given time has no leisure to look after
his victims. He must "know by the
.teel," rs Kit said, when he bites 'em,
that he's done the business for EN-"
The black and tan having been re-
turned to his chain, Kit said, with such
u glow Of pride as Prof. Agassiz some
times gives token of when he is about
to exhibit what he knows to be Il rare
specimen of natural history:
Now, gentlemen, l want to show
you the most curious thing you ever did
see in all your lives. There never was
another such thing in this world. 1t
is u rcd rdtr
And thrusting his tongs into the cage,
he drew forth rat about the color of a
red squirrel and admiringly held it up
10 our gaze until we had ratified his ell
tliusiasm, when he tenderly restored the
curiosity to its confinement.
The price of rat at Kits is - cents,
which sum the etiquette of the place re-
quires visitors to hand him for every
rat killed for their delectation. What
the rats cost Kit he does not say. They
are caught for him by Il young man,
who il reputed to have Il 'giftn and 4
mission for the work.
One Of the most astonishing things
wi,iri, the curiosity seek CT caii sao d:
Kit Burns IL his daughter, Kitty,
braudishing her war-clubs. Kitty is a
small, fragilc-looking girl, seemingly
about l6 years old, and yet she will take
a pair of war-clubs, weighing l6 pounds
each, and handle them with an case
appreciated. In a sparring match with
friend an ungallant accident allowed
the gentleman's left" to come down
on kitty's nose with II force which
crushed the bone and spoiled the beauty
of that organ; but when the girl becomes
animated in whirling her l6-pound war
clubs, ones establishment at her physic-
Ill powers for the time makes him forget
her broken nose, and when she finally
sets down the clubs, the masculine be-
holder finds himself involuntary thank
ing Heaven that the woman OF the land
have not hit upon them rs means of
solving the great question Of woman &
Rights What could IA husband do,
cornered ola morning, with his tri.
nmphant wife standing before him
gracefully posing in each hand II
ponnd war-club, and afiectionately sug.
gesting to the trembling wretch his
programme for the day: 49,.
Standipg on the end of Kits countsr
next to Water ST., are Il couple OF stutfet
Or "prepared' dogs. each of which ha;
a history. The one nearest the from
of the counter or bar was black ant
tan named Jack, famous as a rat killer
When in "killing trim" Jack weighe,
twelve pounds, and on one occasion
did" his hundred rats in six minute.
and forty seconds, that being the bes
rat killing time ever made in Americ.
by dog or man. Jack died in 1850, ant
his stuffed skin, standing on Kits coun
ter, is his only monument.
The other dog, whose stuffed ski
stands few feet in the rear of Jack's
was IL gamey fellow named Hunky,
fine blooded bull and Il noted fighter
The cogaos cent of Water ST., will te
you, with batcd breath, that Hunk
went out game" first killing his do.
and then dying himself. The stake
which Hunky won for his master at til
cost of his life were 500 IA side In di,
eoursing about Hunky, one of his at
mirers and mourners said to me: III
died in April, 1865, weighing eightee
pounds.
The dog pit and rat pit bushes, or en-
tertainment, is divided into fou
branches, to wit;
/. Rat killing by weasel.
>. Rat killing by dog.
J. Rat killing by man who kills tn
rats with his teeth.
!. Dog fighting.
The rapidity with which well train
cd dog kills rats is. astounding to tn
nninitiated. He makes but one nip /;
= rat. He bites to kill every time, an
usually does it.
The killing of rats by a man with hi
teeth is the lowest and most revoltin
sport of which human nature ha
been capable since the days of the gladi
ators and the martyrs. The most re
fined Roman ladies enjoyed the sports
OF the Coliseum, aud watched with in
tercst the fate and struggle of a Chris
tan maiden thrown to wild COW or
furnishing leopardess; but even Xxi
Burn cannot stand such an entertain
ment rs the ono Just now under consia
Grafton. The maa who pits himscl
against Il dog, or against time, in IA
Killing, catches the rats one at Il tim
III his hand, and bites or tears of thei
heads with his teeth. He must tax
them clean off, or else it does not count
The rat, of course, makes all the figh
he can, and often gets good grip on
the mans lip, or cheek, or nose and b,
the time the horrid "sport" has ended
she wretch's face sometimes present.
she appearance OLA CORY mass of lacora.
SeJ flesh. ..
EsIt saws he won't allow any surl