Today In History

Post Office Rats Enjoy Wedding Cake

Event date: Feb 5, 1846

We saw a package the other day passing through the P.O. in this village, done up as newspapers are usually folded, and apparently about half eaten up by the rats. On examination, it proved to be well stuffed with Wedding Cake. Rats have a taste for the sweets of matrimony as well as other folks.

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