Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 19, 1871
    Chafauqua Lake, N. Y., has lately been infested with a great plague of flies. For some days they have gathered around the shores at Mayville in such quanities as to darken the landscape. They are very short lived, and on one morning two and a half baskets of dead flies were swept from the […]
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, July 28, 1905
    One thousand head of sheep, the property of Lux & Miller of San Francisco, were shot in the Granite mining district of eastern Grant county, Oegon. Sheep owners had been warned to keep off certain mining property because of damage to the water supply and to forage the miners wanted for their horses. The […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1879
    A Dublin woman was arrested for simply setting a bull-dog upon her husband, aged eighty years, while he was sick in bed, the animal injuring the man so badly that he wa not expected to live. It seems that a woman can’t have any fun at all over in that down-trodden country. There is […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukrgan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1879
    A cat bit Mrs. Crittenden of Middletown, Conn., two years ago. She was strangely ill for a time, and has since been almost helpless, her nervous system being thoroughly disarranged. She cannot speak without stammering, and some of her symptoms are like those of hydrophobia in a mild form.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1879
     A New Orleans gentleman tells the following curious anecdote. In Natchitoches parish, a pedestrian noticed on a lonely road a frog fighting desperately with a tarantula and the taratula returned the compliment by stinging the frog. Every time the frog got stung he would hop to the side of the road, where some green […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazete, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 8, 1879
    One of the best stories we have seen is contained in London Nature. A brave, active, intelligent terrier, belonging to a lady, one day discovered a monkey belonging to an itinerant organ-grinder, seated upon a bank within the grounds, and at once made a dash for him. The monkey, who was attired in jacket […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 8, 1879
    It seems that the Belgians have formed a society for the mental and moral improvement of cats. Their first efforts has been to train the cat to do the work of the carrier pigeons. The most astute and decomplished scientific person would have the ideas of locality totally confused by being tied up in […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 15, 1879
This afternoon, [Jan. 24th,] Mr. Andrew Wallace rode his horse across the ice bridge-a difficult feat in itself-but not satisfied with this, ascended to the summit of the ice mountain at the base of the American Fall. The sight from the cliffs on the Canada side, which were covered with a large crowd of visitors, […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 15, 1879
Lieut. Lyle, of the United States Army, has made some interesting observations on the food of the robin. He details in the American Naturalist his experience in feeding young birds and testing their decided preference for beetles and other insects, showing that they ate seeds only when there was a lack of insects and that […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 15, 1879
For some years the Russian army has been experimenting with passenger pigeons, and has met with much success. Something like 2,500 trained birds are now at the disposal of the military staff. The principal depot is at Warsaw, and there are stations at all the fortresses. Each station consists of several dovecots fitted up separately, […]