Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, November 2, 1873
From the Kansas Magazine.     Appearances indicated that this shaggy old fellow had been making a very good fight of it for several days. I dare say that in the maintenance of his social status he had gone back into the herd and stared at his descendants, and pawed and groaned, as much as fifty times. […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 7, 1880
    A curious incident of the whole of the occupants of a small fish pond being destroyed by a flash of lightning is reported from Seck, Grand Duchy of Nassau. The Nassauer Bote states that during a very heavy thunder and hail storm at night a flash of lightning struck a small pond, well stocked […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 19, 1875
    It seems that in some parts of Minnesota an attempt has really been made to destroy the grasshoppers by killing them. Counties have offered bounties, and the people have gathered in the pests by the hundred bushels, diminishing the number of devourers very sensibly, and enabling farmers and their families to earn good wages. […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 10, 1880
Springfield [Mass.] Republican. Â Â Â Â Mrs. Augustus Brooks, of East Eliot, Conn., has a cat thirteen years old, which will stand up when ordered, bow quickly or slowly, as directed, walk around the room on her hind legs only, dance, turn somersaults, go through the motions of holding a jew’s-harp in her mouth with one paw […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 24, 1880
    When John Thompson of Middlebury, Vt., returned to his filthy hovel after a prolonged spree, his eight dogs almost starved, attacked him. It became necessary to kill all the dogs before he could be rescued, and then he was torn from head to feet.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 24, 1880
    The Illinois Central Railroad has a rule that dogs shall not ride in a passeger car; but a big and ferocious bull-dog walked into a car in Chicago, appropriated a whole seat, and rode 300 miles unmolested. “He had such a meaning smile,” explained the conductor.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 31, 1880
    Albany Argus     Jack is the name of a bull-terrier dog that has been considered as a sort of an attache for a number of years by the American Express Company’s office in this city. About two years ago this dog Jack took a trip westward, and has ever since been on his travels. […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 29, 1875
    The latest dispatches from the West are full of encouragement, the heavy rain storms having destroyed millions of the young grasshoppers. The Missouri river is said to be fairly black with them, and on the uplands millions of them are lying dead, having been totally destroyed by the heavy rains on Wednesday and Thursday.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 9, 1880
    A singular fiendship has sprung up between the horse and a large Newfoundland dog of Mr. Adams, of Van Schaick’s Island, near Troy. They are never content out of each other’s sight, and lavish caresses of various kinds upon one another.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 11, 1880
    There are now on exhibtion in New York two peculiar elephants brought from the mountains of the Malay Peninsula, about 800 miles from Singapore. They are remarkable for their small size, being respectively twenty-eight and thirty-six inches tall; and for being covered with a thick coat of bristly hair or wool. They are supposed […]