Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 11, 1880
    The hound is one of the fastest running dogs, and not impeded by a heavy body possesses great endurance. An evidence of this was shown the other day by a hound belonging to Mr. J. A. Ford, of Battle Creek, Mich. Its owner was stopping at a village six miles from the above place, […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 1, 1881
    Iowa hall can boast of a dog that out Tanners Tanner, having lived forty-two days without food or water. On the 16th day of September the animal owned by Mrs. Armstrong, of Bird’s Flat, disappeared from its home. They marveled much at his prolonged absence and, after futile inquiries and search, concluded that it […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 14, 1880
    Dr. Pratt, of Albany, has a horse with an inordinate appetite for confectionery. Every morning he is driven to the banking house of Henry R. Pierson, and after disposing of his master he turns his eyes northward to see if his road is clear. If he finds no obstacle in the way he walks […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 14, 1880
    George Jenkins, of Barbour county, Alabama, killed a rattlesnake which weighed forty-two pounds, and had fourteen rattles.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 6, 1875
    If Henry V. Rice, a boy of Miami county, Kan., had been an Indian, his fame and name would have been made now. He lately brought a large she-wolf to bay, and had no gun or other instrument of death, except his naked hands. The wolf sprang at him, and young Rice caught the […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 6, 1875
    Recently, near Titusville, Pa., a hound was found lying exhausted in a field, and beside the dog was a dead fox. It was afterward discovered that the hound had followed the fox for nearly forty miles, from the vicinity of Harstown, Crawford county.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 6, 1875
    A hairless horse, standing fifteen hands high, and weighing 1,000 pounds, is the latest natural curiosity in this country. The quadruped, which presents the appearance of an India rubber animal, answers to the name of “Caoutchoue.”
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 6, 1875
    Rubber horse-shoes are the latest novelty. Their cost, as compared with those of iron, is about one-third more, and their weight forty per cent less. It is said that horses suffering from cracked or contracted hoofs, are soon cured by their use.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Tuesday, November 23, 1875
    There is a cage containing four white mice at the Delta saloon, Virginia, which are quite a study. After seeing their maneuvers for an hour or two, one is not, at all surprised at the racket made by mice generally, for during the early part of the evening they take constant and violent exercise. […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 28, 1875
    At Hamburg, the keepers of the Zoo thought that it would be more economical to give the elephant a stone floor as the wooden one had to be replaced too often. One was laid, but the elephant would not lie down upon it to sleep. Something told him that if he did he could […]