Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, March 9, 1839
A courier relates the following incidence of canine sagacity:-An instance of canine sagacity occurred in this city a few evenings since, which deserves to be recorded. A dog belonging to a merchant in State street, having been shut out of the counting room, was heard pawing and rubbing against the door for a long time, […]
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, May 7, 1881
Rumors recently got afloat at Donovan that the grave of Emanuel Siegel had been robbed, some time ago. The coffin was uncovered, and its only occupants were found to be sixteen huge bull-snakes, in a torpid condition.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 23, 1881
We all know the nursery story of the tailor who pinched the elephant’s trunk when the intelligent animal was soliciting sweets through Snip’s open casement, and how the wise beast, on returning the same route soon afterward, regaled the tailor with a shower of muddy water she had carefully sucked up from the roadside, just […]
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, September 11, 1840
This extraordinary curiosity was discovered about two years since by a party of trappers belonging to Capt. Bent’s company, lying on the side of one of the beaver dams of the Rio Grande of the north, [a stream emptying itself into the gulf of California,] whose water it is said possess the petrifying qualities, in […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, June 29, 1833
Leibnitz tells of a dog in Germany, that could distinctly pronounce thirty words. Goldsmith informs us that he once heard a raven whistle the tune of the Shamrock, with great distinctness, truth and humor.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 22, 1881
One of the wealthiest and most eccentric nobleman in Europe, Prince Joseph Sulkowski, Duke of Bielitz, arrived at Copenhagen a few days ago, on his way to Norway, where he proposes to spend the winter in bear hunting. He was accompanied by a numerous suite, consisting of a highly salaried lady companion, a maitre de […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, June 15, 1833
The Middletown [Conn.] Gazette, furnishes the following case of remarkable presence of mind of the master of a Whale ship, when in a situation of the most imminent peril: Captain Chester, of the Whaling ship Ann Maria, of this place, on her late voyage round the East Cape, met with the following adventure. One of […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, February 9, 1899
Miss Ellen Walker, Near Chamberlain S. D., Captures Big Animal With a Running Noose. Miss Ellen Walker, who owns a stock ranch a few miles north of Chamberlain, S. D., has brought in the scalp of a large timber wolf which she captured herself. All fall she has been troubled with this wolf, which was […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, July 19, 1918
Carl E. Akeley, Naturalist, Relates Experience of Being Attacked by Massive South African Beast. The hunter and taxidermist, Carl E. Akeley, who has spent a great deal of painstaking effort in preparing the wonderful animal groups at the American Museum of Natural History, is known throughout South Africa as an elephant hunter. He has had […]
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 23, 1919
A cat belonging to a young lady residing in North street, St. Andrews, Scotland, went missing. A search was made, and the loss was advertised, and all hope of the return of puss was given up. After the cat had been absent for 24 days a maid, on cleaning the drawing room of the house […]