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Monthly Archives: February 2013

Elephants Afternoon Call.

An elephant of a traveling circus managed to get loose the other day and went for a walk up Bubbling Well road, finally entering a garden where a lady was sitting on a veranda, when the intelligent animal broke some flowers and handed them to her and then dropped on his knees. He was evidently […]

Gored By Mad Bull Wauconda Farmer Is Terribly Injured.

Milking When Wild Bovine Swept Down Upon him and Battled With Him for Hour. Friends of James Monaghan, of Wauconda, were shocked Monday evening when news telephoned to the village that he had been badly hurt by a bull while getting up the cows for the evening milking. The bull came upon his victim unawares, […]

Household Snakes.

Giboias Are Used as Domestic Rat Catchers in Brazil. In certain parts of Brazil, where the climate is intensely hot and where rats are a great nuisance, the common cat does not thrive, but is replaced by a domestic rat catcher whose presence causes a decidedly unpleasant sensation to visitors from the north when first […]

Six-Mule Army Teams.

They Are One of the Interesting Sights These Days in Tampa-Mule Recruits from Cuba. There are about 3,000 mules with the army in Tampa. Most of these are divided among the different regiments, where they are assigned to ambulances, to baggage wagons and to carry packs. About 500 remain with the quartermaster, who keeps them […]

Driving Oxen.

Those having the care of these useful animals should never drive them so fast as to cause them great fatigue. A certain writer in remarking upon this subject, says: “We sometimes see these animals moving so slow in the field and on the road that we can scarcely tell which way they are going. This […]

Billy Goat Routs Entire School.

School North of Wauconda is Suddenly Suspended With Neighboring “Butter” Butts into the School Affairs. In Newport township north of Zion City there is a little teacher that has conquered a whole school board. She had them all doing odd jobs around the school building and none of them can realize why they are so […]

Gollmar Bros. Circus.

Probably all readers are familiar with the fact that in their native countries elephants are not only used to aid in the capture of their own species, but also in pursuit of various wild beasts of the jungle. In tiger hunting especially is this the case, the elephant is rather an unwilling participant. In his […]

Americans Great Meat Eaters.

It is said that Americans are the greatest meat eaters in the world, despite the fact that they have the widest choice of vegetables. Statistics prove that $100,000,000 more is spent on meat than on vegetables each year in America.-What to Eat.

Kills Bear With Penknife.

Jay Bunchof Aberdeen, Wash., had an experience recently that bids fair to rival Roosevelt’s coyote yarn. Bunch is a flier at Larkin Bros.’ logging camp on the Wishkah, and with a friend and several dogs started out to find a bee tree. They had not gone far when the dogs started up a bear. Bruin […]

Runaway.

What might have proven a bad runaway, occurred yesterday afternoon. The Johnson laundry wagon, of Lake Bluff was being driven by Miss Lydia Johnson, who got out of the wagon and left the horse standing. Just as Miss Johnson came back the horse started to run. The girl grabbed the lines and clung to them. […]