Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 4, 1885
Two monkeys sat under a tree in an Indian forest. One monkey was seen to busy himself in smearing the other with red clay earth. When he had succeeded in entirely covering his companion, he disappeared into a neighboring wood, leaving the other a mass of clay, but for two small holes through through which […]
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, November 13, 1852
Some passengers traveling on a railway in Ayr, Scotland, have had an unpleasant adventure. A bee-hive had been in a compartment; the bees got out, attacked the passengers, and stung them severely. at the first station the bees were left in sole possession of the carriage.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, October 6, 1898
Grasshoppers, Wasps, Etc., Driven Out by Forest Fires, Fly Over City of Wichita. Wichita, Kan., Oct.-Several hours before sunset Monday there began to arrive here, flying low over the city, a cloud of insects comprising grasshoppers, wasps, bald hornets, several varieties of butterflies and wild bees. They are drifting slowly with a light breeze toward […]
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, June 16, 1854
Mr. Joseph Adams, of Eden, Lamoille, County, Vermont, [a town which he helped settle when a youth, and he is now over seventy years old,] writes us that “I have kept bees nearly forty years, and I have stood and watched the King-bird in a cold misty day, and have seen them sit on my […]
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, September 5, 1844
In a neighborhood of Hereford, England, recently a swarm of bees settled under the bonnet of a little girl, down the side of her face, and round her throat. Fortunately the child stood still, and the bees were hived without her receiving a single sting.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, October 26, 1833
It is said that a lady near Galena this season has found between 50 and 60 bee trees.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, August 29, 1922
There are bees and flowers whose random meetings result in a curious phenomenon. On the single dahlias and gaillardinias of the garden, bees are often to be seen in a maudlin state and these bees are more frequently of the black and yellow banded kind. If you take such a bee off the gaillardia the […]
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 19, 1865
A correspondent of an English paper transmits the following: On Sunday morning last I had the pleasure of witnessing a most interesting ceremony, which I desire to record for the benefit of your readers. Whilst walking with a friend in a garden near Falkirk, we observed two bees issuing from one of the hives, bearing […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, August 27, 1841
Mr. Rice, of Ripley, Erie County, Pa., has an extensive establishment for keeping bees. Twenty years ago he had but one swarm, from which in twelve years he had 396 swarms. The Erie Gazette states, that they had then become so powerful, that they commenced depredations on the neighboring tribes, going out on predatory’ excursions […]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 24, 1877
    The Virginia [Nev] Enterprise tells this affecting story: “Charles Kaiser, who has the only hive of bees in town, says that when he first got his swarm his old cat’s curiosity was much excited in regard to the doings of the little insects the like of which she had never before seen. At first […]