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Monthly Archives: September 2012

The Sick Elephant.

Thursday, September 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 20, 1869

The following story has a “moral” which those who have watched the progress of the recent session of the General Assembly, as regards railway legislation may possibly appreciate. A very curious railroad accident happened recently in India. A large elephant, seeing the red light and smoke, concluded the noisy locomotive was an enemy to be […]

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Bradawls as a Luxury.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 24, 1869

The buffaloes found in the telegraph poles of the overland line a new source of delight on the treeless prairie-the novelty of having something to scratch against. But it is expensive scratching for the telegraph company, and there indeed was the rub, for the bison shook down miles of wire daily. A bright idea struck […]

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A Bird Combat.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 29, 1878

That trim, gentle-looking, drab-colored bird, erroneously called turtledove by dwellers in the United States, and generally deemed so utterly innocent and pure that to kill it for the table or any other use is branded as heinous in the extreme, is not so innocent after all. Its moaning, sad-sounding, voice is a mockery and a […]

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Fishing for Monkeys.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 17, 1878

Walking carelessly through their haunts I strewed some grain upon a suitable place, on which I dug with my knife a few round holes about four inches deep. Coming back to the spot in half an hour, I dropped grain into each hole, and left a noose round one of them, concealed with earth. The […]

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Whales Forcing the Northwest Passage.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 4, 1879

That whales have found for themselves a northwest passage, is proven by the fact that whales have been captured in the North Pacific having harpoons that were thrown into them on the other side of the continent, says the San Francisco Bulletin. Captain Bauldry, of the Helen Mar. took a right whale having in it […]

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The Sinking of a Vessel by a Whale.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Since it has been generally conceded that the fish which foundered Captain Larsen’s bark, Columbia, in mid-ocean, by thumping a big hole in her port bow must have been a whale, popular interest in the accident has palpably decreased. In truth, it was hardly more the strange disaster itself than the possibility of a new […]

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A Hunter’s Luck.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 27, 1879

He Captured Two Large Eagles, One Alive and the Other Dead. Kansas City Journal. T. W. Wright, the well-known taxidermist, had quite a novel experience, Tuesday, which was not altogether without danger, but he was so fortunate as to escape injury, and his two trophies of his skill and prowess as momentous of the event. […]

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