Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, April 22, 1912
    A man down in Massachusetts found a blacksnake frozen in the snow. He took the snake up carefully so that it would not break-it was stiff as the rod of Moses in the original form-and took it home and put it by the fire. And it thawed out. It wriggled around in the heat […]
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Thursday, October 23, 1817
    In page 204 vol. 111. [Memoirs of doctor Lettsom] the following curious relation is given by Bishop Madison.     In a town, this fall, among the mountains of our country, near to the place where I happened to be, a boy of 12 or 13 years of age, was bit on the side of […]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, September 28, 1822
    The serpents in the possession of Mr. Neal, on Sycamore-street, Petersburg, [Va.] are objects, in our opinion, eminently deserving the attention of the curious. To see a full grown Rattlesnake, [perhaps the most deadly poisonous of the serpentine race] upwards of four feet in lenth, 5 or 6 inches in circumference, with its fangs […]
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, November 10, 1819
    A rattlesnake was lately killed at Wilton, [R. I.] in which were found eighty-two living young ones, from 8 inches to a foot in length.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, August 6, 1824
    Last year a rattlesnake was killed on Bullard’s plaines, in the parish of Felioiana, which had not less then one hundred and thirty seven rattles. If the generally perceived opinion, that the number of rattles denote the age of this species of the surpentine race be correct, the snake must have been as old […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, November 10, 1827
From the Glens Falls Observer, Oct. 8. Â Â Â Â A few miles from this place, in Saratoga county, a young man took his gun, one day last week, and went up the side of Palmertown mountain, above what is called the great pond, near a place which is famous for the circumstance of a large company’s […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, August 25, 1827
From the Scoharie Republican. Â Â Â Â A few days since, a farmer in the town of Jefferson, observed his dunghill cock engaged in mortal combat with a stripped snake of about 18 or 20 inches in length, the cock to all appearance, having the decided advantage, over his more wily though less nervous adversary, dealing his […]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, July 14, 1827
    It has been confidently asserted that a black snake of North America has the property of expanding itself to such a degree, that he has been known to swallow a bulk twice as big as his own.     Our informant states that two of these reptiles having lately come in contact, and both feeling […]
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, October 7, 1826
    On Friday last, [1st inst.] a spider was discovered by the workmen in the Rock Creek Mill, apparently in contact with a small black snake, about 9 inches long. When first discovered, the snake was snapping at the spider, and at each snap or jump of the snake, the spider lapt his web round […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 21, 1898
A Catskill Mountaineer Who Prefers Reptiles to Wife and Child. Â Â Â Â Up in the Catskills lives one of those men who have an affinity for snakes. He prefers the companionship of any kind of reptile to that of the most genial man or fascinating woman. Wherever he goes he carries with him several of these […]