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Monthly Archives: April 2021

Cows

Finds Clock Works in Cow.— B. Frank King, while butchering a cow at Sutton, Mass., found, on opening the animal’s stomach, that it contained all the running gear of an ordinary sized mantel clock, two stones, each the size of a hen’s egg, and a number of pieces of glass. The cow was apparently healthy.

Rats

Ring Around Rats Neck.—Bloomington, Illinois., July 15, 1912.Waukegan Daily Sun Wallace Fauber, a farmer of Woodford county, was pitching hay when a rat ran out of the stack. The animal was transfixed with the tines of the fork and killed. Fauber noted a peculiar shape to the head of the animal. Inspection revealed a ring […]

Pigs

Vermont Not Ahead Yet.—This pig story from Vermont is behind the times as given by W. H. Dow. James Low comes to the front and says, “there is nothing new under the sun.” In the summer of 1845 he moved from Kenosha, Wisconsin to Millburn, Illinois. Among his effects was a young pig. About June […]

Horses

Horses Burned At Winona—–Lacon, Illinois., Oct. 5, At two o’clock in the morning Burgess Brothers’ barn at Winona was burned. Thirty valuable horses, which had just been shipped in from the state fair at Springfield, were roasted alive. Many of them wore the first and second premium colors awarded there. The loss is $50,000; insurance […]

Insects

Won a Grasshopper Race. Mackay was an early riser, a hard worker, and, exceedingly hospitable. He could seldom be induced to play cards for money and then for only nominal stakes. The only game that seemed to attract him was the “grasshopper races.” Boys caught grasshoppers and sold them to the players at 25 and […]

Badgers

Badger fights must cease. Lake County has become famous for this diversion with the side-splitting climax, but its all off now. During the Fireman’s Convention at Waukegan the guests enjoyed a badger fight arranged in their honor, and in some way it leaked out, members of the humane society getting wind of it. Saturday morning […]

Sea Serpents

Sea snakes, Among other visions, the Republic has a glimpse of its old favorite, the Silver Lake Snake, which has appeared in the River St. Lawrence, in a degree commensurate with the magnitude of his new quarters. It is said the he has shown 300 feet of its length, and that is sufficient to prevent […]

Birds

The poor birds are dying of cold in New Jersey. One day last week hundreds of little birds, who were allured from their tropical homes in hopes of a Northern summer, fell to the ground dead, or nearly so, in the midst of their flight. In Trenton, the children were picking up and nursing these […]