Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, December 16, 1853
This dog story is from Fayetteville, Arkansas, where a farmer’s dog has been detected in going to the hog-pen and biting one of the hogs till it gets up; when Archy lies down in the warm place and goes to sleep.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, November 13, 1852
Some passengers traveling on a railway in Ayr, Scotland, have had an unpleasant adventure. A bee-hive had been in a compartment; the bees got out, attacked the passengers, and stung them severely. at the first station the bees were left in sole possession of the carriage.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, November 11, 1852
How many of our fair readers, as they draw on their French kid gloves are aware that those same gloves are made of rat skins? The catching of rats for this purpose is a regular trade in Paris, in which hundreds of men find employment.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, November 8, 1852
There is now on exhibition at Calais, Maine, a hog which stands seven feet eight inches high, and girths six feet eight inches, and weighs twelve hundred pounds. it is one year and six months old.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, June 2, 1853
Something more than one hundred dogs have been killed by the city authorities within the last thirty-six hours.-Galena Jeffersonian.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, March 9, 1853
Three of the Chinca Islands, on the coast of Peru, on which guano (crap) is deposited by birds, are said to contain two hundred and fifty millions of tons of the manure, worth one thousand two hundred and fifty million pound sterling, or upwards of seven thousand millions of dollars.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Thursday, November 18, 1852
It is stated in English papers that pauperism is decreasing throughout Ireland-the result of emigration-and that business seems to be improving. It is stated that 100,000 head of sheep and cattle have been purchased at the great Scottish fairs, to be sent to Ireland.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Saturday, March 12, 1853
There is an ox in St. Louis which it said weighs, 3,500 pounds. It is 18 feet long; 12 feet girth, and 13 hands high-so says the Republican.
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, January 14, 1853
Several complaints have been made to us of late of the damage done to shade trees by allowing horses to run at large. One gentleman having some fine thrifty elms in front of his lot, though protected by boxes some seven feet high, has had them all ruined by horses. This is too bad, and […]
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Monday, February 21, 1853
The Charleston Evening News relates a singular instance of canine attachment. Two dogs, one a terrier and the other a spaniel, were playing together on Haskell street, Charleston, on Friday last, when an omnibus in passing unfortunately ran over and killed the terrier. The spaniel commenced the most piercing cries and pathetic lamentations for the […]