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Monthly Archives: November 2012

Humors Of The Mule Race.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 23, 1919

In nearly every army race meeting held in France during the war there was provision for a mule race. Some mules, a London Times correspondent says, were remarkably fast and handy, while others were satisfactory so long as it was a straight course. At one meeting of the Picquigny course the distance was four furlongs, […]

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To Stop Bleeding.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, April 6, 1843

A few days ago, a valuable carriage horse of mine, took suddenly ill on a journey. A professed farrier of the village in which I was compelled to stop, advised bleeding in the mouth, which was done accordingly. But unfortunately, after the animal bled more than a gallon, it was found impossible to stop the […]

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Cure For A Snake Bite.

Friday, November 2, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, May 11, 1833

From the Galenian. I was bit by a snake and in fifteen minutes my foot swelled to double its size, and in fifteen minutes more, my foot was entirely cured, by putting it into a large bucket of new milk. If the orifices are not well opened by the snake’s teeth, open them with an […]

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Hawks To Frighten Birds.

Friday, November 2, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, May 4, 1833

A hawk confined in a cage and placed in the garden or field is found to be much more service to frighten away birds than other scare crows, including a sleepy boy.

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Escape Of A Lion.

Friday, November 2, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, September 20, 1834

Howes’ New York Menagerie was in town last week. The keeper’s familiarity with the Lions and Tigers when enclosed with them in their cages, is hardly a safe business after all. Few men have the nerve deliberately to “beard the lion in his den,” and rarely, since the days of Sampson, do we find one […]

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Thrilling Story. [Sharks]

Friday, November 2, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, June 7, 1834

An extraordinary story is told by Captain Wallace, of a lover and his mistress, who were saved in a singular manner from the jaws of a shark.-A transport, with part of a regiment on board, was sailing with a gentle breeze along the coast of Colney; one of the officers was leaning over the poop […]

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