Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, February 14, 1849
A novel exhibition was presented in Washington street, Boston, and on the neck yesterday, which drew off attention for a time from the racers. Herr Driesbach made his appearance in an elegant sleigh with his pet tiger by his side; not the tiger of English comedies, but a bona fide four-legged tiger. He seemed to […]
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, April 6, 1849
The editor of the Manchester Democrat tells of a man who had a large nose, and who in crossing a corner of Lake Winnipisiogee to reach the wood where he was chopping, cut a hole through the ice for the purpose of quenching his thirst. A large trout, mistaking, for some tempting prize, the nose […]
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois on Sunday, February 15, 1880
Where There Are 1,000 Cobras to the Square Mile-Remedy Worse Than the Bite. Times of India. The statistics show that during the last year the amount of rewards paid for the destruction of wild beasts and venomous snakes in British India was 99,189 rupees. As far as regards the destruction of wild beasts, the money […]
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, October 21, 1847
A writer in the New York Dispatch, who professed to speak from “a degree of experience,” says: It takes a prairie horse a long time to appreciate the merits of grain-they snuff their noses at it in disdain, at first, and wonder what you mean by offering them white pebbles to eat. Having never been […]
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, November 22, 1848
Commence showing your friendship by rubbing the horse’s face with your hand, then snap and explode percussion caps with your hand, then snap and explode percussion caps with a pistol; let the horse frequently smell the powder and smoke, then you fire small reports, until all fear is removed, then overhead and behind the horse, […]
Monday, December 10, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, July 17, 1845
The Richmond Whig says that there is a “horse tamer” in that city, who professes to be in possession of a secret which enables him to tame the wildest horse. The Whig gives this account of an experiment he made in Richmond on Thursday: “The experiment was performed at the circus. The exhibition to the […]
Monday, December 10, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, December 20, 1848
The Icelanders have a most curious custom, and a most effectual one, of preventing horses from straying, which is peculiar to that country. Two gentlemen for instance, are riding together without attendants, and wishing to alight for the purpose of visiting some object at a distance from the road, they tie the head of one […]
Monday, December 10, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, August 21, 1845
We have heard a rumor of a very tragical occurrence in Washington county, Indiana. According to a statement made to us, a young couple in that county went to a house and were married last Thursday night, and a large number of persons, agreeably to a prevalent custom, surrounded the house with tin horns, etc. […]
Monday, December 10, 2012
Published in the Sangamon Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Wednesday, January 24, 1849
The Columbus Ohio State Journal relates the following incident: A good steed is a bad fix. One of our neighbors, Mr. J. L. Gill, called on us yesterday morning with an invitation to witness the exercise of certain powers of control over horses and other animals, possessed by a Mr. Fancher, now staying at the […]
Monday, December 10, 2012
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, February 14, 1849
Mr. C. D. Trusdell, of Oregon City, has built a horse boat, of which the Spectator gives the following account:- The horse-boat Mr. Hellen, built and owned by C. D. Truesdell, Esq. left this city on the afternoon of the 27th inst; for Portland under charge of M. K. Kellogg, Esq., as master, and returned […]