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Monthly Archives: August 2012

A Good Word For Puss.

Friday, August 10, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 28, 1877

It is not often that we hear any credit rendered to the cat for either intelligence or affection, and it is therefore pleasing to be able to record an instance in which one if not both of these qualities is shown in a remarkable manner in this animal. A gentleman writing from India recently to […]

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Cats.

Friday, August 10, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 9, 1877

While at the residence of Almon Webb in the township of Antioch the other day, we witnessed a somewhat novel spectacle, it being nothing less than the caressing of a pair of young coons by a cat which had adopted them. Some two or three weeks since someone in the neighborhood killed an old coon […]

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Horses.

Friday, August 10, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 4, 1877

At Volo, the other day,we saw Mr. Carpenter, the village blacksmith, fitting wooden shoes to a pair of horses to enable them to work upon swampy land. Each shoe consists of a block of wood about 8 inches square, the calks fitting into the wood and a bail passing over the foot and fastening it […]

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A Mouse’s Stratagem.

Thursday, August 9, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 7, 1877

Yesterday afternoon the writer witnessed a strange sight in the record office. Our attention was attracted by several lusty squeaks from the inside of a pail, almost full of water into which a half-grown mouse had fallen. The alarm had hardly died away before four or five more mice appeared on the scene, and began […]

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Queer Adventure With a Bear.

Thursday, August 9, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 14, 1877

Last week a man named Selden Hanscom, who lives in Chatham, Carroll county, rode to a neighbors to get two small pigs, carrying them home in a basket in his wagon. On the way home, at about 10 o’clock in the evening, he saw an animal beside the road which he at first thought was […]

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A Fire-fighting Snake.

Thursday, August 9, 2012
Published in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, August 4, 1878

Unless the Brazilians are guilty of very large story-telling, the snake they call the surucucu is braver far more than the buffalo, for it is averred that, if a fire be kindled in the woods, these creatures glide out of their hiding-places, dash straight at the obnoxious thing, and scatter its embers with their tails; […]

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Fish.

Thursday, August 9, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 8, 1877

During the recent severe fire on the big meadow below Plover, the water in Buena Vista creek became so heated that large numbers of its fish died. One account says that barrels of them were picked out by the people, who went there for that purpose. This is probably the first instance on record where […]

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A Foxy Story.

Thursday, August 9, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 1, 1877

The fox which Mr. Fairgrieves now has occupies a yard back of the store, to which Mr. Fairgrieves’ dog has free access. The dog and fox are great friends. They frolic together, play “no end” of jokes on each other, and live in the most perfect harmony, save at ‘meal time.” The discussion that a […]

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