Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 3, 1877
    We were yesterday informed by Mr. Smith, living on Quapaw Bayou, that while he and his son William, aged about thirteen years were out in the woods on Monday afternoon last, driving up their cattle, their attention was attracted by the bleating of a calf. Thinking the animal was probably bogged, they discovered a […]
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 29, 1877
Clever Dogs. Â Â Â Â Shot was a very intelligent and well behaved retriever, belonging to a gentleman at Doneaster. By kindness and patience he had been tought to do many clever tricks. On one occasion he earned a nice sum of money by performing at a bazaar for the benefit of the poor people in the […]
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 27, 1877
    Mile. D., a good and worthy lady, who lived in a country house in the neighborhood of Columbier, had a dog of special intelligence. He was of the race of poodles, which, everybody knows, is remarkably sagacious. When Mile. D., passed the evening with ladies of her acquaintance in Columbier as so often happened, […]
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 20, 1877
    Two ostriches harnessed to a wagon can pull a load of 1,000 pounds, and all the care they need is a pail of water, two or three old bones, and a hod of brick.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 6, 1877
    Probably one of the greatest problems of the age is the mule. Although volumes have been written on the mule yet the accident statistics show that he is as little understood as ever. How to mix kindness and firmness in the proper proportions and then apply the concoction successfully to an energetic mule is […]
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 6, 1877
    Mr. Sam Gentry, living in the adjacent county of Stewart, has in his possession a purse made of the tanned skin of a rattlesnake, which he caught and killed under the following circumstances: In going along a wheat field he came across the snake lying at full length before him, manifesting no disposition to […]
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 29, 1877
    A swallow’s nest, built in the west corner of a window facing the north, was so much softened by the rain beating against it, that it was rendered unfit to support the superincumbent load of pretty, full grown sparrows. During a storm the nest fell into the lower corner of the window, leaving the […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 25, 1876
    A story comes from Fairfield, Herkimer County, N. Y., of a music-loving dove. It is said that when the piano is played in the house of the dove’s owner, it will fly into the house and perch on the head of the performer, where it will remain until the piece is played, when it […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 15, 1876
    There are few persons familar with Waukegan but will remember the little sorrel horse so long owned by Geo. Kirk, Esq., and all of these will regret to learn that he is dead. The horse was purchased by Mr. kirk, from Mr. Locke, of Libertyville, in 1856, and was then four years old. For […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 10, 1876
    Walter Morse, of the town of Ela, more generally and favorably known as “Dad” Morse, nearly ninety years of age, was attacked by an infuriated bull [one of his own pet stock], and was roughly handled and terribly bruised. He was thrown in the air and struck on his head, and tumbled and jostled […]