Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 8, 1879
A real whale was caught in the Raritan Bay, near Monmouth. The carcass of the enormous fish was anchored near an old fish-oil factory, where the lucky fishermen who struck a bonanza in the capture of a sperm whale melted the blubber in large iron pots. The whale was first seen about sunrise by a […]
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 15, 1879
Out at the Lafayette Park Police station in St. Louis, they have a weather prophet which eclipses Tice and all the barometers in the neighborhood. It is a frog of the genus Hyla, more familiar to the general reader as the tree toad. The Superintendent of the Park, was mildly abusing his barometer one day […]
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 15, 1879
One of the singular proofs of the foreign importation and perhaps of the late arrival in Europe of the cat, is found in its various names, says the London Daily News. It is said that none of them came from the old Aryan source, from which most of our language is derived. Most of them, […]
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 15, 1879
Mr. James Morton, of Simonton’s Corner, Me., shot a tiger cat in the Barne district, measuring four feet and ten inches in length.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 22, 1879
They have on exhibition in St. Louis a cloak made of feathers of quail, prairie chickens, and wild ducks. There are said to be 38,880 feathers, and each feather has from five to eight stitches. It took a lady nearly seven months to make it, and she valued it at $500.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 17, 1877
A boy named Ziba Lake, about 11 years of age, captured and killed an eagle on the farm of C. F. Heydecker, Esq. in Newport, a few days since. The circumstances were about as follows: The lad noticed the eagle resting upon the back of a sheep, but never having an eagle in that locality […]
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 1, 1877
A North Carolina wagoner sold his dog to a Laurens county man the other day for half a barrel of sorghum syrup. The dog however, refused to be sold and took refuge under the wagon. The Laurens county man crawled after him with a piece of meat in one hand and a rope in the […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 23, 1878
    The veritable “Mary [who] had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow,” visited the Old South spinning bee at Boston Wednesday afternoon and told the ladies present the story of the lamb. When she was 9 years old and living on a farm, one morning she went out into the barn, where […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 16, 1878
    In the New Jersey calender Tuesday was “sheep day,” so called because upon one day in each year the township committees are in session to receive complaints from farmers and sheep-owners. These complaints state the number and value of the sheep which have been killed by dogs during the year. These losses are paid […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 9, 1878
    The Canadaigna Journal of last week tells the following: “Along the sidewalk leading from the Globe Hotel to the hotel stable is a board fence. North of this fence is a yard where Mr. Decker frequently turns his horse loose for exercise. The ground in the yard next to the fence is a foot […]