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Monthly Archives: January 2015

Timber Wolves As Draft Horses.

Thursday, January 29, 2015
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, August 3, 1912

Mr. and Mrs. Damerel of Ashland Travel in Unique Fashion. Driving from coast to coast, with four timber wolves hitched to a spring wagon pulling them, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Damerel of Ashland, Wis., arrived in Waukegan today. The queer equipage is now bound for New York, from which place it will double on […]

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Elephant Laborers.

Thursday, January 29, 2015
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, December 11, 1875

It would be too long to relate all the uses to which elephants are applied in Burma. Let us watch them at work among the woodyards where the logs of the tickwood tree, which come floating down the river, are plied. Every working elephant is mounted by a driver called a “cornac,” whose principal business […]

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Elephants Kill Keeper.

Thursday, January 29, 2015
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, February 19, 1900

London, Feb. 19.-An exciting scene took place at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, Sunday afternoon. Two large elephants belonging to the circus ran amuck, killed their keeper and gored another man. There was a terrible panic in the audience attending the concert in the palace. One animal was captured after great damage to property. The other […]

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Herr Driesbach. (Big Cats)

Saturday, January 17, 2015
Published in the Waukegan Daily Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 26, 1857

This celebrated lion-tamer is now living upon a beautiful farm within a mile of Potosi, Wis. He was recently in Dubuqe, Iowa, and went with a companion to a menagerie there, and the latter describes the visit in the following, interesting style; On entering the canvass, which was before the audience began to collect, Herr […]

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Rats On Ships.

Saturday, January 17, 2015
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, October 5, 1908

“Are rats destructive? Well,” said a captain of a merchantman. “I once knew them to get through $5,000 worth of stuff in five days. “Japan does an immense trade with China in cocoons, and the first time I carried such a cargo they were packed in sacks. When we got to Hong Kong we found […]

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Rodents On The Rampage.

Saturday, January 17, 2015
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 10, 1876

An Awful and Almost Incredible Story. The number of rats inhabiting the rocky crevices and cavernous passages at the summit of Pike’s pike-says a correspondent of yesterday’s Pueblo Chieftain-have recently become formidable and dangerous. These animals are known to feed on saccharine gum that percolates through the pores of the rocks apparently upheaved by some […]

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