Saturday, December 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, July 31, 1845
The Ladies National Magazine, edited by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, contains, in the July number, a thrilling picture of a family-a mother and her children-being chased by wolves. The story told is as follows: A few years ago, toward the close of a winter’s day, a mother and her children were traveling in Canada behind […]
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, May 15, 1845
The New Haven [Conn.] Courier relates the following interesting incident, which occurred a few years since in one of the villages of Connecticut: “A young lady, confined to the house by protracted indisposition, was in the habit of feeding a sparrow, which had a nest on a tree near the door, with crumbs of bread. […]
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, June 5, 1845
We see, by our French contemporary, that two Englishmen in Belgium have formed a company to run a letter express on the railroad, by harnessing greyhounds to light cars and suspending bits of meat before them by a rod extending forward from prodigious velocity, and have the advantage over engines, of giving out no cinders […]
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, July 27, 1848
A correspondent of the National Intelligencer, writing from the Alleghany Mountains in Georgia, describes an old hunter whom he found in a log cabin, in the center of a small valley completely hemmed in on all sides by wild and abrupt Mountains and one of the most romantic and beautiful rocks imaginable. He has lived […]
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, July 13, 1848
The journal of Commerce, speaking of a large haul of fish recently made in the East River, near N. Haven, states the number to have been two millions, while many estimated the number at three or four millions. This is no ordinary fish story, as some of the incredulous editor may suppose. It has been […]
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, November 28, 1844
While the ships of England and America are coursing the oceans in pursuit of guano, I would call the attention of our agriculturists, to a manure of similar origin, and possessing the same properties, that abounds in many places in their own forests; which may be had for the labor of collecting. I allude to […]
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, October 14, 1847
In a quarter of the town of Hingham, known as Rockynook, there is a pond where a little girl not six years old, who resides near the bank, has tamed the fish to a remarkable degree. Gradually the fish learned to distinguish her footsteps, and darted to the edge whenever she approached; and now they […]
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, February 28, 1902
They tried to Uproot Tree in Which Hunter Had Taken Refuge. J. P. McGee, of this place, has just had an experience that has thickly flecked his auburn hair with grey. He is an ardent sportsman, and early Christmas morning hastened to that sportsman’s paradise, Cookson, on the Illinois. His luck was good, and by […]
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, August 11, 1832
The Captain of a trading vessel, who now resides at Brighton, picked up lately a dog at sea, more than twenty miles from land. This circumstance may throw some light on the fact of dogs, which have been sent to France or Ireland from England, finding their way back. The present earl of L….., sent […]
Friday, December 28, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, March 2, 1848
Plutarch tells a very amusing story of Mark Anthony, who was a keen angler. One day while Cleopatra and he were indulging in this sport, he was unusually unsuccessful. Hurt at this disappointment in the presence of his mistress, he gave secret orders to some of the fishermen to dive under water, and to fasten, […]