Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 7, 1881
Rumors recently got afloat at Donovan that the grave of Emanuel Siegel had been robbed, some time ago. The coffin was uncovered, and its only occupants were found to be sixteen huge bull-snakes, in a torpid condition.
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, May 11, 1833
From the Galenian. I was bit by a snake and in fifteen minutes my foot swelled to double its size, and in fifteen minutes more, my foot was entirely cured, by putting it into a large bucket of new milk. If the orifices are not well opened by the snake’s teeth, open them with an […]
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, September 16, 1837
Mr. Elaskim Thomas, returning on Saturday week, from an excursion on the Catskill mountains, heard a great rustling among the leaves close by, and presented the startling sound of rattles, apparently, of an enormous snake. He stood momentarily upon his guard, and it was well he did so, for, on looking about him, he presently […]
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 20, 1878
Texas snake story related by the Dallas Commercial: Mr. Walters and his wife were returning to the city, in a two-horse buggy, from a trip into the country. About seven miles from town, on the Mansfield road, they passed a snake that was lying on the side of the road, the great size of which […]
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 22, 1878
The black snake is the bitter enemy of the rattlesnake. When they meet, a fight takes place, and the black snake generally conquers. A correspondent of the Forest and Stream thus describes a combat which he saw between two of these snakes. In the middle of the road lay an ordinary black snake, and quite […]
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 13, 1877
‘It was early in the morning-not, however before the snakes, which were in a series of wire-covered boxes, were awake and lively- that we were shown” said a correspondent, “into a stone floored room some twenty feet long and twelve broad. In the boxes were the strongest and deadliest snakes in India: pythons, ophiophagi, cobras, […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 28, 1877
It is not often that we hear any credit rendered to the cat for either intelligence or affection, and it is therefore pleasing to be able to record an instance in which one if not both of these qualities is shown in a remarkable manner in this animal. A gentleman writing from India recently to […]
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, August 4, 1878
Unless the Brazilians are guilty of very large story-telling, the snake they call the surucucu is braver far more than the buffalo, for it is averred that, if a fire be kindled in the woods, these creatures glide out of their hiding-places, dash straight at the obnoxious thing, and scatter its embers with their tails; […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 17, 1885
[Fannie B. Ward’s Mexico Letter.] Â Â Â Â They tell us that here, and all along the southern coasts of Mexico people have a habit of inoculating themselves with the virus of the rattlesnakes or adder, which renders them forever afterwards absolutely safe from the bite or sting of any reptile, however poisonous. The truth of the […]
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, May 17, 1901
Wooster, Ohio, Woman Learns Cause of Six Years Suffering. Â Â Â Â Mrs. Mary Swain of Wooster, Ohio, has been complaining of pains in her stomach for the past six years. A few weeks ago she commenced treatment with a county physician, who gave her medicine for stomach worms. The remedy brought to light the startling discovery […]