Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 29, 1880
    A young fox taken from a litter was placed with a litter of kittens at Watkinsville, Ga., a few days ago. The mother cat at once adopted it, and now evinces a much greater interest in it than in any of the rest of her family.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 29, 1880
    During the year 1879, 10,281 horses, 529 asses and 26 mules, giving 4,135,700 pounds of meat, were sold for consumption in Paris; and on the 1st of January last seventy-eight butchers shops for the sale of that article of food were in full operation.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 29, 1880
  It was found necessaryn Sunday last to repair the polar bear water tank at the zoo, and for the purpose the brown bears were driven into the right compartments, so that their pit could be occupied by the white bears temporarily. One of the iron doors of the compartment not being fully closed, one […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, November 17, 1897
    Story of the Strange and Unpleasant Experience of an English Vessel.     When a vessel recently arrived in Liverpool with a cargo of logwood, everybody on board, from captain down to cook rushed frantically ashore, as through pursued by some unseen enemy. As a matter of fact, the vessel was literally swarming with hordes […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 11, 1898
    As mentioned exclusively in Friday night’s Sun, trainer James Anderson who had charge of the elephants with the Wallace circus met a terrible death yesterday morning at Racine by being trampled and gored by one of his charges. As a large crowd was near when the accident occured it is a miracle that no […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 23, 1898
    One of New York’s “four hundred” had a $3000 bull dog killed by a Maltese cat in a fight the other day. No wonder the poor dog got killed with such a terrible amount of money as that on his head. The cat probably was worth about fifty cents.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 23, 1898
    Prince, the largest elephant of the Wallace circus died Wednesday night from lockjaw at Wabaska, Minn. It will be remembered that this beast is the one which a short time ago killed its keeper, James Anderson while the show was at Racine. Since its terrable rampage there it had been kept heavily chained. This, […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 17, 1885
[Fannie B. Ward’s Mexico Letter.] Â Â Â Â They tell us that here, and all along the southern coasts of Mexico people have a habit of inoculating themselves with the virus of the rattlesnakes or adder, which renders them forever afterwards absolutely safe from the bite or sting of any reptile, however poisonous. The truth of the […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 31, 1885
[Exchange.] Â Â Â Â Sledge-dogs need no urging with the whip when their instinct informs them that they are on unsafe ice. Â Â Â Â They flee onwards at the speed which alone can save and, as was experienced repeatly by Dr. Hayes, instead of keeping the sledges together in a compact body, they diverge and separate, so as […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 8, 1898
A Fourth of July Celebration Which Ended in Disaster.     “That billygoat the boys had for a mascot on the New York,” remarked the  paymaster’s clerk, “suggests a monkey’ that my father used to tell me about that they had on a frigate in the times before the war. This momkey the sailors had picked […]