Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 2, 1878
    A lively young boar was recently sent my rail from Custrin to Frankfort-on-the-Oder, being shut up in a wooden cage. On the journey he managed to get out of the cage, and forthwith devoured twenty-five pounds of German yeast which happened to be in the car. The yeast began to rise in the interier […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 19, 1878
    Carrier pigeons have actually been caught smuggling tobacco in France. By the untimely exhaustion of one of these birds and its consequent fall into the Seine whence it was rescued, a very pretty scheme was unfolded. It seems that a single smuggler employed eighty of the little messengers to transport the fragrant weed across […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 5, 1878
    “Old Frank” is a hunting dog that used to hang around the newspaper offices of St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. Joseph Crane took “Old Frank” to his house. Mr. Crane had an old hen, with seven or eight chickens that had been hatched out a couple weeks. For some cause the unnatural mother deserted her […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 29, 1877
    The Meriden [Ct.] Republican tells this story: “One cold morning last week Dr. Wilson drove up to a house on Crown street, and left his horse without hitching it. The horse waited a few moments, and, his master not returning, he began to dance a double shuffle, presumably to get his feet warm. Finding […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 22, 1877
    The Jefferson City [Mo.] Tribune: A gentleman of the name of Ewing, who lives in Vernon County, tells a remarkable story of the sagacity of a dog which accompanied him on his travels. While in the Short Creek timber, on his way to Joplin, the dog jumped and caught the horse by the bridle […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 22, 1877
    The following mode of tying hyenas in their den, as practiced in Afghanistan, is given by Arthur Connolly, in his Overland Journal, in the words of an Afghan chief, the Shirkaroe Synd Daond: “When you have tracked the beast to his den you take a rope with two slip-knots upon it in your right […]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 15, 1877
    The fiercest beasts in the London Circus menagerie at the Hippodrome are the hyenas- the “grave-robbing hyenas” they have been called. They make more trouble than the lions and the tigers, fighting among themselves constantly; and when they engage in these combats they must be promtly separated or the stronger and younger beasts, frenzied […]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 1, 1877
     One of the great industries of Burma is the timber trade. The teakwood, which is the chief timber cut and shipped, is very heavy and requires prodigious force too handle it; and, as the Burmese are not far enough advanced to use machinery for the purpose, they use elephants, and bravely do the noble […]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 24, 1877
    The Virginia [Nev] Enterprise tells this affecting story: “Charles Kaiser, who has the only hive of bees in town, says that when he first got his swarm his old cat’s curiosity was much excited in regard to the doings of the little insects the like of which she had never before seen. At first […]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 22, 1877
    One day last week a deer was chased from the mountain into Jackson’s river, closely followed by a pack of hounds. The deer crossed the river and jumped into a field near by, belonging to A. T. Stephenson, Esq. A small. mischievous mule was grazing in the field, and, as soon as he spied […]