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Monthly Archives: September 2012

The Northwest. [Wisconsin]

‘We learn from Julius Linstedt, one of our patrons in Mishicott, that the farmers in that town have had killed within the last five or six weeks 265 sheep, and they have been unable thus far to find what animal is doing the mischief, as they are all killed in the same manner and left […]

Pigs.

Ray Kahler, a 7-year-old son of Myron Kahler, a Rockville farmer was assaulted by a sow one day last week and seriously injured. The little fellow was running across a lot in which the animal with her brood of young pigs was kept, when the sow attacked him in a number of places. He succeeded […]

A Turtle One Hundred And Seventy-Nine Years Old.

We received a turtle a few days since which had marked on his back the date of 1709, and also the Spanish coat-of-arms, indicating one hundred and seventy-nine years ago. What changes this old fellow of the deep has seen? The rise and fall of empires, and the continent on which he partly lived emerged […]

A Seaman Who Saw A Veritable Sea Serpent.

New York Times. Fourth Officer, F. G. Rowell, of the steamship Anchoria, of the Anchor line, which arrived at this point from Glasgow, late Sunday evening, says that on Thursday last, while on the Newfoundland banks, he saw a sea-serpent which he estimates to have been fully as long as the steamship. According to “Lloyd’s […]

Texas Snake Story.

Texas snake story related by the Dallas Commercial: Mr. Walters and his wife were returning to the city, in a two-horse buggy, from a trip into the country. About seven miles from town, on the Mansfield road, they passed a snake that was lying on the side of the road, the great size of which […]

A Snake Battle.

The black snake is the bitter enemy of the rattlesnake. When they meet, a fight takes place, and the black snake generally conquers. A correspondent of the Forest and Stream thus describes a combat which he saw between two of these snakes. In the middle of the road lay an ordinary black snake, and quite […]

Dogs.

Two gentlemen who were passing a house in Worchester, Mass., recently, were attracted by a large Newfoundland dog, which kept running toward them and then returning in the direction of a pond in the grove, where something was evidently wrong. They followed the dog to the pond were they found another dog in the water, […]

Dogs.

Two butchers at Sunderland, England, have been sent to prison for three months at hard labor, for butchering a dog and selling the flesh to their customers for mutton, and as several large dogs have been missing of late, it is thought this was not their first offense.

Buck Hares In Combat.

An Australian correspondent describes “a dinkum stand-up fight” between buck hares. “They prop upright on their hind legs and box with their front paws, sparring, ducking, uppercutting in pugilistic fashion, fur flying in all directions. When one pugilist gets winded or passed out he falls on his back and skies his tail.

Swimming Horse.

Capt. Edwards, of the fishing smack Amelia, reports that when off “Skunnett,” on the Rhode Island shore, he discovered an object swimming off his bow, which he finally made out to be a horse. He made sail, but could not overhaul the animal, which was making desperate struggles to reach the mainland three miles away. […]