Monday, December 31, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, September 1, 1832
His most huge and mysterious fishship, the sea serpent, is rather late in his visit this year, and many people began to suspect he had deserted our shores altogether; but we have the assurance of four persons who were off the coast in a boat on the 27th ult. that they distinctly saw the celebrated […]
Monday, December 31, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal-, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, November 23, 1833
Elephants are now used in Ceylon for plowing the rice fields, and in preparing new grounds for the cultivation of coffee, pepper, Etc. An elephant will perform the work in one day which twenty bullocks [oxen] were in the habit of performing before.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal-, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, August 17, 1833
The earliest account of a animal of this general description is furnished by Pantoppidan, Bishop of Bergen in Norway, and author of an old Natural History, in the first editions of which is a picture of the serpent. This gives him a mane-an appearance doubtless caused by his rapid motion through the water. He says, […]
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, September 21, 1833
Some winters back, in a part of the vast forest that stretches along the Upper Norwegian frontier, were traveling two gentlemen-one a native the other an Englishman. They had gone on many weary miles through the waste of snow and forest, when climbing a steep ascent, some two hours’ from the place of their destination, […]
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, December 21, 1833
Several years ago, a farmer in Scotland kept a gander, which not only had a great trick of wandering himself, but also delighted to lead forth the geese to play truant and stray among forbidden fields. Wishing to check this vagrant habit, the farmer one day seized the gander, just as he was about to […]
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, January 4, 1834
A women residing in Plymouth, Mass. who was very partial to cats, purchased one some time since for its superior beauty, which, however, for some untold reason, she was desirous of destroying. To effect this, she immersed the cat in a bucket of water, with a weight around its neck, from which it soon escaped […]
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, December 15, 1831
It is mentioned in a late Philadelphia U. S. Gazette, that one of the men employed to clear the streets of swine, had taken a noble porker, but while engaged in tying the legs of the prisoner, the bristly-back animal seized the victor by the nose, and nearly destroyed that prominent member.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, January 20, 1848
One of the elephants in Raymond & Waring’s extensive menagerie, exhibiting in Philadelphia, turned on his keeper on Wednesday, 22d. We find the following particulars in the Philadelphia papers! As his keeper, Wm. Kelly, was preparing him for the afternoon performance, in consequence of being struck, he seized Mr. K. with his trunk and raising […]
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, October 21, 1847
A correspondent of the Chicago Journal is denouncing the armies of grasshoppers that are so abundant on the prairies this season. They differ from European, being horse-headed, and winged like the African locust, and are the worst kind of those plagues. They are said to have increased very much within the last three years, and […]
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, December 2, 1847
Mr. Giberson, on Monday last, while hunting in the Sangamo Bottom, killed a deer that weighted 215 pounds. It is the largest one that we have ever seen, and if any larger are raised in other counties, we should like to know it.