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Monthly Archives: September 2011

Sheep and Dogs

Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Thursday, February 2, 1826

     We read of 42 sheep being killed out of one flock, near Winchester, Va. by dogs in one night, which also wounded 10 or 12 more. Wherever sheep abound, dogs should not; and it is every way right that the owners of dogs should be made responsible for damages like this committed on the […]

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Child Carried Away by an Eagle.

Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Wednesday, January 18, 1826

     A circumstance quite uncommon in the north, lately happened in Scania. A woman at work in the fields laid her infant on the ground, at a little distance; soon after an eagle pounced upon the infant, and carried it away. The poor woman who heard the cries of the child in the air, is […]

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Lima Jack Asses

Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, December 9, 1825

     Extract of a letter published in the Philadelphia Gazette, dated 25th July.      I write you from the City of Kings and the Garden of Eternal Summer; where rain is unknown; but vegetation enjoys uninterrupted health, cherished by nightly dews.      Lima is proverbially called, the Heaven of ladies-the purgatory of men-and the Hell […]

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How the Chinese Catch Ducks.

Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, November 18, 1825

     Buffon, in his natural history, relates the following, as a mode by which the Chinese catch Ducks.      The duck catcher ascertains a place, in a small lake or still creek, where a flock is in the habit of swimming apparently for amusement, an hour or two each day. In this place he sets […]

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The Old Serpent

Thursday, September 1, 2011
Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, September 23, 1825

An animal, supposed to be a sea-serpent, not less than sixty feet long, is said to have exhibited himself in Halifax harbor, to the gratification of many spectators. The time given for his appearance was the 15th July. But yet the people will not believe in the existence of “his royal” lengthiness of the mighty […]

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