Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 16, 1879
A gentleman at the hotel in Naugatuck, Coon., had a small dog. Its master had but to speak, and whatever evolutions he suggested the creature would go through. Following a series of tricks and antics, the gentleman says, “Its prayer time, say your prayers.” The little brute sprang into a large chair, put his fore […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 23, 1879
A remarkable attachment sprang up between a white camel and an elephant belonging to John Robinson’s circus. When the company started from Texas, considerable beating was required to force the camel on board the steamer, at which the elephant showed great anger, and frightened a crowd badly by rushing to the scene. After they reached […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 30, 1879
“Jimmy-the-Duck,” of Virginia City, Nev., is dead. He made his living by a queer invention. He used to put a duck in a box with its head sticking out of a hole, and allow the crowd to throw clubs at it for 25 cents a throw, the bird belonging to whoever should hit it. The […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 20, 1879
A sea serpent, or rather river serpent, 100 feet long, with a head like a whale, a flat fantail, crusty fins and dark brown color, is vouched for by about 100 as having been seen repeatedly within a week off the mouth of a big St. Louis sewer.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 19, 1881
Not long since, a lady in London owned a remarkable parrot. Any one hearing the bird laugh could not help laughing too, especially when in the midst of it she would cry out: “Don’t make me laugh so, I shall die, I shall!” and would then continue laughing more violently than before. Her crying and […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 26, 1880
English land-owners who cannot obtain a satisfactory rental for their farms are turning them into great rabbit warrens. About 10,000 rabbits, recently killed on an estate in Essex, brought thirty-seven cents each in the market.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 21, 1869
From the Omaha Republican. Over two thousand people gathered on the banks above the pond, and along the lower end of Farnham street, on yesterday afternoon, to witness Bob Hart and Sully in their great wash-tub-goose feat. Promptly at the advertised time, Hart made his appearance, followed by his competitor for the golden peanut offered […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 16, 1871
The Mount Vernon Free Press “Is informed that a few nights since, in Horse Prairie, a child but a few weeks old was terribly bitten and mutilated by rats while in bed with its parents. One of its fingers was eaten off, and the flesh torn from its forehead and one cheek. It is also […]
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Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, March 3, 1899
Dashes Madly Through Streets of an Ohio Town with Burden. The citizens of Mononcue, Ohio, were out the other day hunting for a big panther that has terrorized the residents of that locality. For weeks past the farmers have missed fowl and young animals. In the snow, tracks of a strange animal had been seen, […]
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Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 12, 1902
Steamer Norseman is carrying 1,170 cattle and 1,398 sheep from Portland, Me., to Liverpool, the largest shipment ever taken across the Atlantic.