Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 9, 1876
The police at the foot of Hammond street, New York city, recently rescued a horse from the water, concerning which there is a remarkable history. Nobody at first knew anything of the animal or its owner, but the next day a claimant appeared who stated that he was the owner, and that the horse had […]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, September 11, 1870
We cannot just now call to mind where we met, long ago, with a very amusing example of memory in a horse-the charger of the commanding officer of an Indian regiment. He was an exceedingly large and heavy man, and the horse having a dislike to carrying such a burden, acquired the habit of lying […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, June 9, 1870
The St. Charles Michigan Harald says: “J. H. Griffin, of this city, was dangerously bitten by his stallion ‘Black Hawk,’ near the house of Charles Smith, east of St. Charles, on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Griffin was in the act of getting into his sulky, when the horse made a dive for him, jumping about eight […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, November 16, 1872
In Barbary, pacing horses are held in such high estimation that the method of making a spirited trotter shackle like a boat in a chop sea is reduced to a science. To make them rack easily, a ring of lead covered with leather is put around each hoof; a cord from each weight ascends and […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, September 30, 1900
There are in the whole world about 75,000,000 horses and 11,00,000 mules and asses. They are distributed as follows: Europe, 39,400,000 horses, 3,200,000 mules, etc; America, 20,800,000 horses, 4,700,000 mules, etc.; Asia, 9,100,000 horses, 1,300,000 mules, etc.; Africa, 1,000,000 horses, 1,900,000 mules, Etc.; Australia, 9,300,000 horses. In the United States there were, January 1, 1900, […]
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, August 14, 1879
J. M. Henderson, of Arkadelphia, has a horse that saves him the trouble of keeping a dog, as he is as good as one in running hogs and cows out of the field. One day he was put in the yard back of our office, where a pig happened to get in, when he saw […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 19, 1856
    A dead horse is worth $17.50 in New York. His hide is sold to the tanners, his bones are burned and sold to the sugar refiners for refining purposes, and to the farmers for manure; his meat is pressed and the grease is used by the soap and candle makers; while the remnants and […]
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 6, 1857
    Probably the greatest leap on record was made one day last week, at the Helena Shot-tower, Wisconsin. A horse, some twelve years old, jumped from the bank over a precipice of one hundred and eighty feet into the river below, and came out safe and sound, after swimming nearly half a mile to a […]
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 6, 1857
    This is a very dirty world in spots. Some of the hogs dead of cholera at the West have been sent as pork to the East, and dead horses in Philadelphia are used to fatten hogs for market. Pah! feed a man this pork, washed down with strichnined whisky, and he must soon become […]
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 4, 1910
    The prize winning team belonging to Swift & Company was rescued and 100 other horses met death Saturday night when the walls of the north end of the stables at forty-first and Laflin streets collapsed. There were 250 horses in the stables. Edward F. Swift and his brother, Chas. H. Swift, were among the […]