Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Tuesday, July 22, 1851
Frogs in Egypt. Mrs. Loudon, in her “Entertaining Naturalist,” a book for children and young persons, says, “Frogs are generated in such numbers in Egypt, in the fields and meadows, that did not the storks devour them, they would overrun everything.” Are these frogs the progeny of those which Moses caused to annoy pharaoh and […]
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 12, 1909
Sidewalks and Rails Covered and Trains are Delayed. Gouverneur, N. Y., July 12.-In a heavy wind and rain storm thousands of small frogs fell, covering the sidewalks. The rails of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdenburg division of the New York Central railroad for half a mile were buried and trains delayed.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, September 13, 1853
A toad weighing seven pounds was taken out of a solid locust log at the ship yard in Poughkeepsie a few days ago. He must have been there 100 years.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, June 26, 1845
The Westfield [Mass.] News Letter gives an account of a little girl, about 5 years old, an only child of John Bronson, of Russell, vomiting a living toad. It measured from the mouth to the end of the body two and one-half inches; the body and lower extremities five inches-and the circumference of the body […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, July 20, 1898
Species of Huge and Voracious Reptiles Haunt Swamps of Pennsylvania. Â Â Â Â A species of bird-eating frog infests the swamps in Susquehanna county, Pa. These huge croakers have also proved destructive to young chickens, says the New York Press. Â Â Â Â A few days since a farmer named Wainwright, of Herrick, had his attention called to the […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1879
     A New Orleans gentleman tells the following curious anecdote. In Natchitoches parish, a pedestrian noticed on a lonely road a frog fighting desperately with a tarantula and the taratula returned the compliment by stinging the frog. Every time the frog got stung he would hop to the side of the road, where some green […]
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 15, 1879
Out at the Lafayette Park Police station in St. Louis, they have a weather prophet which eclipses Tice and all the barometers in the neighborhood. It is a frog of the genus Hyla, more familiar to the general reader as the tree toad. The Superintendent of the Park, was mildly abusing his barometer one day […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 24, 1918
Infrequency of Such Events More to be wondered at Than Fact That They Occur. Probably the most remarkable thing about the many reported showers of such objects as fish, frogs, toads and the like is the skepticism with which the accounts of these occurrences are greeted. The wonder is, observes a writer, not that they […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 8, 1867
There is at a Nashville brewery a mammoth frog, weighing twelve pounds which is supposed to have attained his enormous size from the nourishment received from the health-giving beverage manufactured at that establishment. He is kept in the cellar, with no companions but his own thoughts, and drinks his regular allowance of lager, with all […]