Saturday, December 15, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, November 15, 1848
On Thursday of last week, during the heavy storm of wind and rain, while the extensive collection of wild beasts in the menagerie of Messrs. Raymond & Warring were in the Village of Norwalk, a feature was introduced in the exhibition not previously announced in the bills. About 4 o’clock in the afternoon, a violent […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, August 23, 1848
A writer in a Cincinnati paper, describing a midnight visit to the animals of Raymond and Waring’s menagerie, in the winter quarters in that city with Driesbach, the famous keeper, says: “It was a sight worth walking ten miles. We found, contrary to assertions of natural historians, an elephant lying down. It has always been […]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, April 6, 1849
In one of the stored on Commercial wharf a lion lately received from Africa is kept in a cage. Yesterday, a small Irish boy, with his chip basket, wandered into the store, and in some way placed his basket against the bars of the cage. The lion, nothing loth to make a slight luncheon, seized […]
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, February 14, 1849
A novel exhibition was presented in Washington street, Boston, and on the neck yesterday, which drew off attention for a time from the racers. Herr Driesbach made his appearance in an elegant sleigh with his pet tiger by his side; not the tiger of English comedies, but a bona fide four-legged tiger. He seemed to […]
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, December 19, 1849
We stated a few days since that a large Lynx had been killed in Weare, N. H., by a lad of sixteen years of age. A gentleman from that vicinity has given us the following particulars of the exciting event: On Saturday, Oct. 27th, a party of individuals in Weare started out on a squirrel […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 22, 1881
One of the wealthiest and most eccentric nobleman in Europe, Prince Joseph Sulkowski, Duke of Bielitz, arrived at Copenhagen a few days ago, on his way to Norway, where he proposes to spend the winter in bear hunting. He was accompanied by a numerous suite, consisting of a highly salaried lady companion, a maitre de […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, September 20, 1834
Howes’ New York Menagerie was in town last week. The keeper’s familiarity with the Lions and Tigers when enclosed with them in their cages, is hardly a safe business after all. Few men have the nerve deliberately to “beard the lion in his den,” and rarely, since the days of Sampson, do we find one […]
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, March 15, 1834
By James H. Hackett. I never was downhearted but once in my life, and that was on seeing the death of a faithful friend, who lost his life in trying to save mine. The fact is, I was one day making tracks homeward, after a long tramp through one of our forests-my rifle carelessly reasting […]
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, June 17, 1837
The Lakeville, [Ohio] Journal gives the following case of maternal courage as a recent occurrence. A number of Catamounts had been seen over the Michigan boundary and caused great terror among the farmers. One of them entered the window of Mr. Israel Hawkins, which had been left open, while his wife was engaged in adjoining […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, February 4, 1837
From Crocket’s Travels in Texas. [Davy Crocket] After toiling more than an hour to get my mustang on his feet again, I gave it up as a bad job, as little Van did when he attempted to raise himself to the moon by the waistband of his breeches. Night was fast closing in, and as […]