Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 1, 1879
    Capt. Kennedy, a resident of Nucees county, Texas, owns a tract of land containing 350 square miles, on which are pastured 45,000 cattle, 15,000 horses and mules, and 7,000 hogs.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 21, 1878
    A curious partnership is related as existing at Chelsea, Vt., where a turkey and a partridge are sharing a nest. The turkey continues to deposit her egg daily, although the partidge began to set after laying thirteen. During the occupation of the nest by the turkey the partridge attends to feeding.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 28, 1878
    It is a remarkable fact, says the London Times, that a taste for gaming appears in some cases to pervade a whole people, and to become one of the chief national characteristics. Nowhere is this more manifest than among the inhabitants of the Asiatic Islands. Games of hazard are the favorites of these islanders. […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 12, 1878
    A big dog in Paris, Ky., is a friend of drunkards in need. Whenever he sees a staggering man, he sticks to him until home is reached, or watches at the wayfarer’s side if he falls in the gutter.
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, August 12, 1898
    Among the enthusiastic patriots uptown the other day was a man who owns a handsome spaniel and one good at retrieving. This man, reports the Philadelphia Record, began his celebration by throwing a pack of small firecrackers into the street and before the first one had a chance to explode the dog rushed out […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 28, 1878
    A Georgia farmer smeared his hogs with tar to rid them of fleas, and turned them loose in the woods. At night they did not return to the pen as usual, and in the morning he found them stuck together, the tar making them adhere in a mass. They might have gone home, nevertheless, […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, October 6, 1878
       One of the plagues of Egypt has visited several districts in County Derry, Ireland. A fly, hitherio unknown, but almost the size of a house-fly, has appeared in such vast numbers as to fill the air like mist. They molest the animal kingdom alone, awarming about horses, cattle and men, and inflicting a venomous […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, August 8, 1898
    The North China Herald says that a curious phenomenon was witnessed recently at daybreak upon the opening of the Chlangmen gate of Soochow. Some 4,000 or more rats of all sizes were seen to file out of the gates, showing no fear of the country people who were flocking to sell their market produce […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, July 25, 1898
The Faithful Animal Warns the Captain Just in Time to Avoid a Collision. Â Â Â Â Capt. Granlain, of a big lake liner, boasts of a first class seaman that never leaves the vessel or demands money for his service. This peculiar tar is known as “Bert.” He has no surname, as far as his fellow sailors […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Wednesday, July 20, 1898
Species of Huge and Voracious Reptiles Haunt Swamps of Pennsylvania. Â Â Â Â A species of bird-eating frog infests the swamps in Susquehanna county, Pa. These huge croakers have also proved destructive to young chickens, says the New York Press. Â Â Â Â A few days since a farmer named Wainwright, of Herrick, had his attention called to the […]