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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Higher Life of Animals.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Saturday, June 10, 1876

  Remarkable Instances of Language and Combination.      In Mansfield Parkyn’s work on Abyssinia is a remarkable account of language and the consequent power of combination among the monkey tribe.      “You may see them quarreling, making love, mothers taking care of their children, combing their hair, nursing and suckling them; and the passions, jealousy, […]

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A Man-Wolf.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, May 21, 1867

       Rev. Dr. Butler, the Methodist missionary who established the mission of that church in India in 1856, recently returned to this country. He makes the following statement of a remarkable case:      In 1859 a British soldier, while bearing a despatch from one magistrate to another in the kingdom of Onde, passed an […]

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A Conflick With a Wolf.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Monday, May 10, 1869

  From the Princeton, Illinois Republican, May 6.      A large grey wolf has frequently been seen in the northern part of the county. It has killed seversl sheep from the farmers and a cow has come up missing. While in Dixon a few days ago we heard the following account:      A man named […]

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A Railroad Attacked by Wolves.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, February 17, 1867

  [Paris Correspondence of the New York Evening Post]      In Paris we have only had the cold, but, as you already know, the south of France has been visited by an almost unparalleled fall of snow. A singular accident is reported to have happened to a train on the Luxembourg Railroad on the night […]

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