La Plata Home Press, Missouri, July 4, 1879

A lady offered $100 reward for the recovery of a pet white rat in the Syracuse (N.Y.) Courier. The reporters learned that she was a morphine eater, on a visit to her father… the pet rat fell out of the bosom of her dress… the lady can not sleep till she has another pet rat… the rat was perfectly tame and devoted to it’s mistress, who is rational upon all other subjects except this pet and morphine or opium.