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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Kills Mountain Lion

Friday, August 12, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, December 28, 1922

Cougars, when hungry, will sometimes tackle a porcupine for a meal, and always with the result of sticking the mucous membrane of the mouth full of quills, from the wounds of which death is almost sure to ensue. When I was with an expedition in the Big Horn mountains, a fine mountain lion was found […]

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He Lives With His Snakes.

Sunday, August 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 21, 1898

A Catskill Mountaineer Who Prefers Reptiles to Wife and Child.      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 […]

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Zoo Snake Swallows Mate.

Sunday, August 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 22, 1918

Boa Gulps Down Companion as Both Are Endeavoring to Feast on the Same Live Pigeon.      A snake’s method of swallowing is almost automatic; the internal mechanism begins its work as soon as the reptile takes the food into its mouth. In his book, “Of Distinguished Animals,” Mr. H. Perry Robinson relates an extraordinary incident […]

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Had the Snake Hypnotized.

Sunday, August 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, September 21, 1922

South African Native Surely Exercised Some Kind of Influence Over Big Python.      Many powers are said to be possessed by the African native which those of the Occident find hard to credit. Here is a story of “Muti,” or hypnosis, as performed, according to a reliable inforant, upon a hude python. The narrator says: […]

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To-Cure Rattlesnake Bites.

Sunday, August 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 4, 1874

     Deacon Chas. W. Guilbert, furnishes the Galesburg Free Press the following cure for the bite of a rattlesnake.      About 37 years ago I arrived in Galesburg. At that time there was a great many rattlesnakes. I used to kill thirty or forty every year. A few years after my arrival two little boys […]

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Capture of Black Eagles.

Sunday, August 7, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 15, 1877

     By the “Senator,” which arrived on Sunday, Mr. Wolcott of this city brought two young black eagles for Woodward’s Gardens. He says that this species of eagle is rare almost to extinction. They were secured by him on a very elevated portion of the Sespe range of mountains, about 70 miles north from Santa Barbara, […]

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