Saturday, October 20, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, February 18, 1837
It is a singular fact, that a flock of sheep in this neighborhood were struck blind on the night of the late brilliant display of the Aurora Borealis. They were bled next day, and thus had the use of their visual organs restored to them. If the circumstance is any thing more than a mere […]
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, April 22, 1837
An Eagle was lately shot on Bergen Hill, N. J. while flying over the sportsman’s head with a pig in his talons. Brought down by a wound in his wing, he fought two dogs for an hour, and drove them off, severely wounded. He was finally captured by having a sheet thrown over him. He […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, November 26, 1836
“That half reasoning brute,” as he is somewhat disparingly characterized, was on board the Royal Jar steamboat, and when the flames approached him, jumped overboard, and swam two miles to a neighboring Island, where he comfortably and quietly installed himself in a barn. He was followed by a little pony also belonging to the Menagerie. […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, February 4, 1837
From Crocket’s Travels in Texas. [Davy Crocket] After toiling more than an hour to get my mustang on his feet again, I gave it up as a bad job, as little Van did when he attempted to raise himself to the moon by the waistband of his breeches. Night was fast closing in, and as […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, December 3, 1836
From the Claremont [N. H.] Eagle. There is not a cow, we believe, in this county, of the same age that will begin to compare in size with the one in this town, belonging to Mr. Luther E. Stevens. She is only five years old, and upon being driven into the village last week, weighed […]
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, May 27, 1879
A correspondent of the Pall Mau Gazette at Lisbon vouches for the truth of the following narrative, which he translates from the Dario de Notiolas: “At the distance of one kilometer from the village of Fratel, near Niza [i. e. on the frontier of Spain and Portugal, near the Town of Portalegre], Theresa Maria, who […]
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicag, Illinois on Sunday, December 7, 1873
From the Boston Transcript. Along the line of the Grand Trunk Railroad, between the Island Pond station and the French Village of Conticook, in Canada, a distance of 18 miles, the country is an almost unbroken forest, and wild animals are frequently seen beside the road staring in wonder at the passing train, while deer, […]
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, March 9, 1894
A Scotchman, who evidently as patient as he is ingenious, has trained two little mice to spin thread with an apparatus of which he is the inventor. The mechanical principle of the contrivance is a small mill, which is operated by the paws of the mice. They can each wind on and off per day […]
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 9, 1881
A robin with a broken wing fell into the hands of a twelve-year-old New Hampshire boy. He took it home and cared for it in a vacant attic till it was able to fly, when he took it out in a basket a mile away in the woods and set it free. the next spring […]
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, April 15, 1904
Wild animals do not usually attack men without provocation unless driven to do so by hunger. It is probable, therefore, that the four mountain lions which besieged J. H. Camp for four days and nights in a cabin in the upper San Gabriel country, California, were starving. It was a terrifying experience, as the San […]