Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, March 16, 1909
How it is used by the British Government in India. Â Â Â Â Its elephant fleet is one of the strangest and most deadly departments maintained by the British government in India. It is a large fleet of coasting steamers specially built for the transport of elephants. India’s population is one-fifth that of the entire globe. All […]
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, June 29, 1826
    A very Sagacious Elephant has been recently exhibited in Providence Rhode Island. Last week, while she was travelling with her keepers towards Connecticut, having just left the village of Chepachet, in Gloucester, two guns were fired upon the poor animal, within about fifteen feet of the person who was leading her, five bullets from […]
Friday, September 2, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, December 9, 1825
    The following description of an elephant fight is extracted from a Picturesque View along the Ganges, by Lieut. Col. de Forest. An exellent breakfast [says Col. F.] awaited our arrival, after which we passed on to a spacious verandah on the east side of the palace, which looked down into the area prepared for […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 6, 1903
Queer Cases of Attachments Formed in Large Zoological Gardens. Â Â Â Â Among the strange features of life in a large zoo are the unexpected and at times amusing friendships that spring up between animals of altogether dissimilar habits and natures, says London Tit-Bits. Out at the National zoo two rhesus monkeys have formed a warm friendship […]
Published in the Dixon Telegraph and Lee County Herald, Dixon, Illinois on Saturday, January 24, 1857
A very remarkable case of the effects of fright upon a horse occured at Franklin a short time since. A horse belonging to Mr. Joseph Palmer, was grazing in the yard near the fence, when the elephants belonging to the menagerie recently in this city, were passing along. The horse did not observe them till […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 13, 1897
    A striking example of the intelligence of elephants was seen in Middletown, Conn., the other day during a circus parade. A small child on Broad street got away from its mother and toddled out into the street. Before anyone could realize what the child was up to it was directly in front of the […]
Friday, September 3, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 29, 1860
    The elephantess Jenny, attached to Dan Rice’s show was poisoned between Salem and Mitchell last week. The poison was administered in an apple given to it by one of the audience. The animal at last accounts was not dead, but there seemed to be no hope of its recovery, as it was very much swollen […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, June 18, 1901
Explorer Discovers it in Africa Where men Have Annihilated Each Other. Lion Reposes With Hartebeeste. Â Â Â Â London, June 18.-Sir Harry Hamiton Johnston, special commissioner for the Uganda protectorate, has returned to London after as absence of two years. He brings stories of uganda rivaling Henry M. Stanley’s description of “Darkest Africa.” Sir Harry relates that […]
Published in the The Waukegan daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 2, 1900
    The opinion is widely held in India that elephants, when they feel that death is near, retire to secret places in the jungle, where they die far from the sight of man. Thus is explained the fact, so often cited that the skeletons of elephants are almost never met with except those killed by […]
Published in the The Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 12, 1902
Published in The Waukegan Daily Sun on 11/12/1902. Â Â Â Â Strange as it may seem, the elephant is passionately fond of finery and delights to see himself decked out with gorgeous trappings. The native princes of India are very particular in choosing their state elephants and will give fabulous sums for an animal that exactly meets […]