Saturday, August 18, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 26, 1876
Residents of Boston and vicinity have been excited by the operations of a man who has been killing fish at Quincy Point, Mass., by the explosion of nitro-glycerine. Large numbers of sea-bass have of late appeared off the Glades, and in the waters around Quincy Point, and it was upon these that the man made […]
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 26, 1876
Mr. F. Vercelli owns a dog that has been badly demoralized by his associations with men. The animal is a black and tan, and looks like a cross between a terrier and a spaniel. From an early age the animal showed a marvelous inclination to copy what was vicious in man. It does not seem […]
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan,Illinois on Saturday, March 18, 1876
A writer who was among the horses in our late war time, says the army horses, generally speaking, were a knowing set, although many of them were perverse and vicious. The boys had a theory that all the kicking, biting and balky horses were sent to the army. But a majority of these soon yielded […]
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 18, 1876
Dr. Charles C. Abbott cites the following occurrence to show that birds possess some mode of conveying ideas to one another: In the spring of 1872, a pair of cat-birds were noticed carrying material for a nest to a patch of blackberry-briars near by. To test their ingenuity, Dr. Abbott took a long, narrow strip […]
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 13, 1877
‘It was early in the morning-not, however before the snakes, which were in a series of wire-covered boxes, were awake and lively- that we were shown” said a correspondent, “into a stone floored room some twenty feet long and twelve broad. In the boxes were the strongest and deadliest snakes in India: pythons, ophiophagi, cobras, […]
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 13, 1877
The Central City [Col] Register relates this story: W. W. Ramage, Corbett Bacon, his brother Judge Bacon, and Dr. Paul reside in the mining and voting precinct established long years ago by the Georgian explorer, Green Russell and in honor of that indomitable pioneer christened ‘Russell Gulch.’ Rumage was the owner of a very remarkable […]
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 20, 1877
There are several large horse residences in New York. They each have beds for hundreds of horses, and the dining tables are a hundred times larger than those of the ‘fifth Avenue” and “Windsor” put together. The Horse Hotel, the largest one of all, is on Third Avenue, between Sixty-fifth and Sixty-ninth streets. It is […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 13, 1877
A farmer of York recently set a trap to catch a cunning fox which had been annoying him considerably by its midnight visits among the poultry. At fourteen successive visits to it he found the trap sprung, a stick of wood between its jaws, and the bait eaten up. The circumstance, so often repeated, surprised […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 27, 1877
Gilbert White tells a most dramatic story of a neighbor who had lost most of his chickens by a sparrow-hawk that came gliding down between a faggot pile and the end of his house, to the place where his coop stood. The owner, vexed to see his flock diminishing hung a net between the pile […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 10, 1877
The Montreal Witness contains the following: Yesterday evening a reporter for a morning contemporary was engaged writing up his items, when he suddenly and quite unintentionally furnished an item himself. He was so engrossed in describing the mysteries of the Police court, that he did not notice an ancient and wise-looking rat who was out […]