Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 19, 1856
    Four men caught in a net on the 7th inst in Tamarah Swamp, Bloomfield township, Ohio, eighteen hundred pigeons at one haul. Besides this, they shot during the same night, 816 more, making a total of 2,616.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 11, 1855
    A French Paper has the following; “At Balaklava, every day, the bands of the garrison give concerts in the square. The birds, who know very well the hour when the musical soiree in the open air commences, assemble in innumerable multitudes upon the trees and roofs of houses. The first piece is heard in […]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, September 19, 1922
A traveler in Africa gives an idea of the strength and size of some of the crocodiles which inhabit the rivers and pools of the Dark continent. He describes a huge rhinoceros enjoying a mud bath, gradually disappearing from view in spite of its most frantic struggles and being carried to the depths by a […]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, January 11, 1907
   The crew of the Perle, a French fishing boat, was about to pull a big net in when they encountered a sudden resistance and found that the net was simply crammed, not with good mackerel, but with dozens of octopuses, each provided with tentacles more than six feet in length. The poor men had […]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, October 21, 1898
Woman Borgia Emulates the Fate of Egypt’s Queen. Â Â Â Â Cora Smith, whose death took place at Anamosa, Iowa, penitentiary Monday killed herself by eating spiders. A paper bag partially full of the insects was found in her cell and an examination of her stomach showed that the poison from the insects caused her death. She […]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 1, 1901
    Richard Croak, of Hartland, was in Harvard yesterday and to friends he told of his experience in having four lizards taken from his stomach by Dr. Sarah DeLoss, of Chicago. For nine years he has suffered from his stomach, at times enduring severe pain that baffled the skill of physicians. He finally went to […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, October 12, 1921
    Christmas Island, in Oceanica, is infested with landcrabs two feet across which swarm over the camps of travelers in such large numbers as to be dangerous. A party of astronomers, led by Admiral Wharton, were unable to protect their supplies, and the crabs even carried away two large chronometers.-Popular Science Monthly.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, October 30, 1900
Shark stories, with some reason, are commonly received with incredulity. A well authenticated anecdote, however, is told of Dr. Frederic Hill, an English surgeon of distinction. A man fell overboard in the Indian ocean and almost into a shark’s mouth. Hill, who was standing close to the rail, grabbed a belaying pin and without hesitation […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, December 27, 1857
In a hump-backed whale, which was driven ashore at Nahant a short time since, a pair of boots marked “J.” were found in a good state of preservation. The Charleston Advertiser suggests that they might have been left behind by Jonah, when he made his sudden exit from the whale.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, August 17, 1922
    A diver, working off the Australian coast, had an odd adventure. A 12-foot shark came nosing up to him, and as its rough hide might have damaged his suit, he held the point of his steel “jumper” toward the intruder. This seemed to be just what the shark wanted, and he rubbed himself against […]