. The Wasp. A Saturday journal of illustration and comment, devoted to the discussion of public affairs, finance, society and art. e is but oneremaining. As aproof of the asser-tion, rats with knot-ted tails, and withshrivelled portionsof others, cunninglylinked in, have fre-quently been caughtin traps, and arebeyond a doubt theindividual remainsof a former doitycombination The photo-litho-graph is a fac-simileof a Rat anomalykilled at Duessel-dorf, in Germany;it was found on thetop of some neglec-ted animal hair, in-side of a long neg-lected boiler. A man hearing the noise of rats issuing fro
. The Wasp. A Saturday journal of illustration and comment, devoted to the discussion of public affairs, finance, society and art. e is but oneremaining. As aproof of the asser-tion, rats with knot-ted tails, and withshrivelled portionsof others, cunninglylinked in, have fre-quently been caughtin traps, and arebeyond a doubt theindividual remainsof a former doitycombination The photo-litho-graph is a fac-simileof a Rat anomalykilled at Duessel-dorf, in Germany;it was found on thetop of some neglec-ted animal hair, in-side of a long neg-lected boiler. A man hearing the noise of rats issuing fromit, went to it, and not until after he hadkilled seven rats consecutively, did he dis-cover that by the entanglement of their tails,they were all comparatively one, and that alittle fortune had slipped through his fingersin his haste to gratify his barbaritj. The moral in connection with all this, willappear in a future number. A Romance of San everybody knows Craig, the under-taker; but hardly anybody gives a thoughtof the many romances which in the course ofa day transpire in the business of Some weeks ago, a Spanish lady, of highlyrespectable appearance, young and beauti-ful to behold, made enquiry at the store,about the cost of a cheap but respectablefuneral. She had the estimate particularlyput down in writing, and mutually agreedwith the manager, that whenever the memo-randa should be presented, that he will re-spect it as a legal contract and comply withits portents. Some two weeks later, a gentleman pre-sented the document at the undertakers,with the request, for some one to go alongfor the purpose of measuring the corpse; a melancholy requestto which the busi-nessman promptlycomplied. Arriving at thechamber of death,judge of the under-takers painful sur-prise, when lo! asbeautiful in deathas when she wasliving, calmly re-posing, as if but insweet slumbers lul-led, lay stretchedthe corpse of her,who in life had bar-gained for her ownfune
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