Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, September 23, 1825
    Horses are so plentiful in Buenos Ayres, that beggers take their rounds and ask alms on horseback, without diminishing, in any degree, their claims to sympathy. These beggers do not extend their excursions, and thus call in question the old proverb, “set a begger a horseback,” Dew. P.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, August 26, 1825
    Russia,-On the 5th of April, two women, walking at Riga, in a solitary part of the city, were torn to pieces by a pack of dogs which had no master. By an official account of the devastation committed by wolves, in the government of Livonia, in 1823, it appears that they devoured 1841 horses, […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, August 12, 1825
    A panther lately attacked a little girl, 12 or 13 years old, in Jackson city, Tennessee. The furious animal was first assailed by a small dog, which only diverted his attantion from the girl for a few moments, when another larger dog came up and made battle with him, during which two men arrived […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, May 20, 1825
    A Carman was driving along Beekman street a few days since, and suddenly his horse came to a dead stand-still without any apparent cause. He urged the animal to proceed, by blows as well as words, to no effect, and as he had always been kind and true before his obstinacy was inexplicable. The […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Saturday, March 8, 1823
    A Monster!-A Hog has arrived at New York from the interior, weighing 1465 pounds!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Kaskaskia, Illinois on Wednesday, January 5, 1820
    An affecting anecdote is related in the French papers;-A young man took a dog into a boat, rowed to the centre of the Seine, and threw the animal over, with the intent to drown him. The poor dog often tried to climb up the side of the boat, but his master as often pushed […]
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Tuesday, January 16, 1821
    In the history of Russia mention is made of a peasant who in quest of honey leaped into a hollow tree, where he found such a great stock that he sunk up to the breast in it; He stuck fast, and his remedy appeared but to eat himself into liberty by devouring all the […]
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Belvidere Standard, Belvidere, Illinois on Tuesday, July 16, 1861
A pretty little bantam was recently thrown into the cage of one of the tigers domiciled in the managerie of the Jardin des Plantes. Â It was designed to sharpen his appetite for some blocks of meat which he had declined to eat. Â Not in the least alarmed by his terrible roars, bantam advanced with the […]
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, November 9, 1923
If a giraffe sees a lion first he can outdistance him and if driven to bay matches his hoofs against the teeth and claws of his enemy.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 14, 1880
Oregon is the scene of a panther-slaying episode, which, as related by the Butler Creek Enterprise, is enough to make Fiction blush over the audacity of Truth. Â A settler living near Scott’s Mills set out to haul some cedar timber, being accompanied by children, a little rat-terrier, a Newfoundland dog, and a large-bore ritle. Â After […]