Friday, November 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Sunday, August 20, 1843
A moving incident, illustrative of the extraordinary strength, as well as the attachment of the Arab horses, is given by Lamartine, in his beautiful travels in the East: “An Arab Chief, with his tribe, had attacked in the night a caravan of Damascus, and plundered it; when loaded with their spoils, however, the robbers were […]
Friday, November 30, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 4, 1881
In Forepaugh’s Great Show, which is to exhibit here on Monday, June 13th, there will be presented the extraordinary spectacle of twenty elephants all performing in the arena at the same time. The Philadelphia News, alluding to this feature of Mr. Forepaugh’s show says: “This mighty herd of mastodons file into the grand amphitheater like […]
Friday, November 30, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, November 7, 1874
The contractors engaged on the Boston water-works, had a valuable cart-horse injured some time ago. The animal was led home to the stable, where about fifty horses were generally kept. The hostler had a water spaniel, who for some months had been among the horses in the stable, living on great terms of intimacy with […]
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 9, 1865
A cat is not generally considered a very teachable animal. But there is one in a store in Concord, N. H., that has been taught to cut with its teeth the twine with which packages are tied, and performs its work with much dexterity. It is even impatient to execute the feat before the package […]
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 7, 1872
A private letter tells of buffalo running thick in the streets of Dodge City, Kansas, and being shot down by the inhabitants.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, April 5, 1879
M. Hugo de Koppenfels writes from Eloby, Gorisco Bay, a little colony, that he has been exploring the country during several weeks of pouring rain. He ascended the Muni, the Noya, the Balinji and the Tumbini to the first falls. In the Crystal Mountains he fell in with tribes absolutely unknown to the present, or […]
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 19, 1881
A traveling party lost their dog at Leipzig, and ten days afterward, when at Berlin, about one hundred miles distant, the animal joined them again, ragged and gaunt. The dog had not before been over the road.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, June 13, 1849
A short time ago, my host Stewart, of the Denton Hotel, purchased a rock fish weighing about sixty pounds. Upon opening it he found in it a certificate of membership of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which is as follows: Member Methodist E. Church, Founded A. D. 1784. Quarterly Ticket, 18 Our light affliction, which is […]
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, August 15, 1849
The following is an account of a wonderful sea fight, taken from a late Dublin paper: Capt. Rochefort, of the British and Irish Company’s crew vessel Rose, arrived yesterday morning from London, and reported having on his passage fallen in with a whale of huge dimensions one morning, at two o’clock, seven miles S. W. […]
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, June 27, 1849
In the vicinity of the barracks assigned to the European soldiers in India, there is usually a number of little solitary cells, where the disorderly members of the corps are confined for longer or shorter terms, by order of the commanding officer. In one of these at Madras, on a certain occasion, was locked up […]