Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, June 29, 1826
    A very Sagacious Elephant has been recently exhibited in Providence Rhode Island. Last week, while she was travelling with her keepers towards Connecticut, having just left the village of Chepachet, in Gloucester, two guns were fired upon the poor animal, within about fifteen feet of the person who was leading her, five bullets from […]
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, June 1, 1826
    On Sunday afternoon, a monstrous catfish weighing 40 pounds, was caught on board the steam-boat Enterprize; when taken on deck, a bunch of tape worms some thousands in number came from his mouth-on opening his maw the following articles were found in his belly. The maw of a large fish full of provisions, the […]
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, May 18, 1826
The New York Truth Teller, on the authority of a correspondent, states that a sailor in the Greenland Fishery, after having struck a whale, fell overboard; but soon found himself mounted on the back of the whale, and had presence of mind enough to put his hand in the blower or spout hole to secure […]
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, April 6, 1826
    A correspondent of the Missouri Republican, speaking of a hail storm on the Dardenne, says, that there were killed in one small lake or pond, upwards of five hundred wild ducks, some of them having their necks cut entirely off. What rare sport for gentleman gunners, except indeed the trouble of bagging the game.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, March 30, 1826
    A Dutch paper mentions the following singular occurrence as having recently happened at Bautam, in the East Indies, for the authenticity of which it says it can answer;-A man fishing on the banks of the river Tyeliman, heard something splash in the water, and perceived a Tiger at no great distance, swimming from the […]
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, March 2, 1826
    On Saturday last a son, aged five years, of Mr. Daniel Huffman, living about fifty miles north of this place, in this county, while his mother was engaged in her domestic concerns, left the house, and as she supposed, was playing near it. His absence occasioned no uneasiness until night, when his parents made […]
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, February 16, 1826
    A new trick has been played, says the Saratoga Sentinel of the 13th, by “the wooden nutmeg gentry.” A considerable demand existing in the southern part of this state for merino sheep, these witty knaves prepared a large number of English sheep, by clipping the ends of the wool, applying a hot iron to […]
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, February 16, 1826
In one of the Balearic Islands there dwelt a retired general of France, or rather one who was induced to leave his native soil by the revolutionary proceedings in 1790. His fortune was small, his pursuits confined, and his acquaintance limited; he was remarkably fond of animals and had a great faculty in taming them: […]
Friday, September 2, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, December 9, 1825
    The following description of an elephant fight is extracted from a Picturesque View along the Ganges, by Lieut. Col. de Forest. An exellent breakfast [says Col. F.] awaited our arrival, after which we passed on to a spacious verandah on the east side of the palace, which looked down into the area prepared for […]
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, December 15, 1825
    Two rats, upon their travels, fortunately fell in with an egg, sufficient to provide them both with dinner, which they were about to devour, when a fox made his appearance, a most unwelcome guest. The difficulty now was, to get the egg home, which they accomplished in this way. One of them lay on […]