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Monthly Archives: April 2012

War Horses.

Sunday, April 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 28, 1875

     War horses when hit in battle, tremble in every muscle, and groan deeply, while their eyes show deep astonishment. During the battle of Waterloo, some of the horses, as they lay upon the ground, having recovered from the first agony of their wounds, fell to eating the grass about them, thus surrounding themselves with […]

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An Intelligent Animal. [Horses]

Sunday, April 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 21, 1875

     There are few of the patrons of Porter & Merrill’s livery stable, in this city, but have, at some time during the past half-dozen years, had the pleasure of driving a chestnut horse, known as “Gold-dust.” This horse as been in the stable almost from his colt-hood, and has always been a favorite with […]

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Turtles.

Sunday, April 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 20, 1866

     A curious and cruel way of cooking turtles appears in a Chinese cooking book. The turtle is placed in a vessel of water on the fire, with a lid over it, having an aperture of such size and so arranged that the turtle can just get his head out, and in reach of highly […]

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Mice.

Sunday, April 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 20, 1866

     The latest farmers’ visitation in Central Ohio is an increase in the field mice, which have never before been seen in such numbers. They are very destructive to the orchards, and it is estimated that over 5,000 trees have been ruined.

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Horses.

Sunday, April 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 20, 1866

     At St. Amant, in France, a little boy was playing in a farmyard, when he fell headforemost into a water cask. A colt. three years old which he had been in the habit of feeding, was seen to take the boy’s clothes in his mouth and lift him out.

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Alligators.

Sunday, April 1, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 11, 1858

     Four hundred alligators have been captured by a single hunter in the swamps near New Orleans, since the 1st of May.

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