Published in the Sangamo Journal-, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, July 5, 1834
From Jackson’s Travels. Locusts in Africa are produced from some unknown physical cause, and proceed from the desert, always coming from the south. When they visit a country, it behoves every individual to lay in provision against a famine; for they are said to stay three, five, or seven years. During my residence in West […]
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, June 24, 1907
Alton, Ill., June 24. A horde of locusts has settled among the trees of “Hop Hollow,” a popular picnic grounds near here, and driven every songbird out of the woods. The hollow has been marked for its songbird, but all have disappeared under the onslaught of the insects. Crows were the first victims. The locusts […]
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, October 21, 1847
A correspondent of the Chicago Journal is denouncing the armies of grasshoppers that are so abundant on the prairies this season. They differ from European, being horse-headed, and winged like the African locust, and are the worst kind of those plagues. They are said to have increased very much within the last three years, and […]
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 12, 1865
In the early part of the summer an incredible number of black gnats made their appearance in the Mississippi Bottoms, and attacked not only cattle and horses, but also birds, wild turkeys, deer, and other game, with such ferocity as to kill in a short time quite a number of animals. After the disappearance of […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, June 28, 1834
We find by our exchange papers, that the Locusts made their regular septemdecennial appearance in different parts of the country, with great regularity, on the 25th inst. and although we have seen nothing of them in this city, as yet, we have no reason to expect that they will delay their coming. Their visits in […]
Friday, September 21, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, May 18, 1921
Don’t Wear Out Your Pencils, Folks-Here’s The Figure: 55,000,000,000,000,000. Cost Was Only $110.00. Residents of the city are asked to comply with the request of the lieutenants in the anti-fly and mosquito campaign and place on display on their premises the “Good Neighbor” cards which are being distributed. During the two weeks that the school […]
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. […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, October 6, 1878
       One of the plagues of Egypt has visited several districts in County Derry, Ireland. A fly, hitherio unknown, but almost the size of a house-fly, has appeared in such vast numbers as to fill the air like mist. They molest the animal kingdom alone, awarming about horses, cattle and men, and inflicting a venomous […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 31, 1880
    Major-General Bisset, C. B., in his work entitled “Sport and War in Africa,” gives an interesting illustration of the use of these as food: “About the year 1830 some of the dispersed native tribes from the interior of Africa migrated into the Cape Colony to seek employment among the farmers. My father engaged one […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 17, 1897
    Story of the Strange and Unpleasant Experience of an English Vessel.     When a vessel recently arrived in Liverpool with a cargo of logwood, everybody on board, from captain down to cook rushed frantically ashore, as through pursued by some unseen enemy. As a matter of fact, the vessel was literally swarming with hordes […]