Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, June 29, 1833
Leibnitz tells of a dog in Germany, that could distinctly pronounce thirty words. Goldsmith informs us that he once heard a raven whistle the tune of the Shamrock, with great distinctness, truth and humor.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 9, 1881
A robin with a broken wing fell into the hands of a twelve-year-old New Hampshire boy. He took it home and cared for it in a vacant attic till it was able to fly, when he took it out in a basket a mile away in the woods and set it free. the next spring […]
Monday, September 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 22, 1877
The Naturalist publishes some additional evidence relative to the destruction of birds by telegraph wires. An observer writes from Iowa: “Many prairie-chickens [Cupiaonia cupido] are annually destroyed in this way. In December 1868, near Cambridge, Story county, Iowa, I saw many of these birds lying dead in the snow, beneath the line of the telegraph, […]
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 29, 1878
That trim, gentle-looking, drab-colored bird, erroneously called turtledove by dwellers in the United States, and generally deemed so utterly innocent and pure that to kill it for the table or any other use is branded as heinous in the extreme, is not so innocent after all. Its moaning, sad-sounding, voice is a mockery and a […]
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 18, 1876
Dr. Charles C. Abbott cites the following occurrence to show that birds possess some mode of conveying ideas to one another: In the spring of 1872, a pair of cat-birds were noticed carrying material for a nest to a patch of blackberry-briars near by. To test their ingenuity, Dr. Abbott took a long, narrow strip […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 21, 1878
    A curious partnership is related as existing at Chelsea, Vt., where a turkey and a partridge are sharing a nest. The turkey continues to deposit her egg daily, although the partidge began to set after laying thirteen. During the occupation of the nest by the turkey the partridge attends to feeding.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 28, 1878
    It is a remarkable fact, says the London Times, that a taste for gaming appears in some cases to pervade a whole people, and to become one of the chief national characteristics. Nowhere is this more manifest than among the inhabitants of the Asiatic Islands. Games of hazard are the favorites of these islanders. […]
Friday, February 17, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 11, 1858
    Various interesting facts have been noted in relation to the demeaner of animals pior to a great convulsion. It was towards noon, beneath a clear and almost cloudless sky, with the sea breeze freshly blowing, that the cities of Conseption and Talcahuano, on the coast of South America, were desolated in 1835. At ten […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 15, 1879
Lieut. Lyle, of the United States Army, has made some interesting observations on the food of the robin. He details in the American Naturalist his experience in feeding young birds and testing their decided preference for beetles and other insects, showing that they ate seeds only when there was a lack of insects and that […]
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 22, 1879
They have on exhibition in St. Louis a cloak made of feathers of quail, prairie chickens, and wild ducks. There are said to be 38,880 feathers, and each feather has from five to eight stitches. It took a lady nearly seven months to make it, and she valued it at $500.