Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Sunday, September 30, 1900
Bulls Couldn’t Stand Before an Auto. Paris, Sept. 30.-A dispatch from Bayonne to the Figaro describes a bull fight which occurred there yesterday in which an automobile replaced the horse of the picador. The novelty drew an enormous crowd, but seven bulls in succession turned tail and fled at the sight of the auto.
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, September 25, 1903
Story of a Dog Traveler. Was raised on farm and has since become widely known. Jack is the name of a dog that is known to everybody in Rushville, Ind., and which makes that place headquarters while he travels to all the towns within thirty miles of it, says the Indianapolis News. He comes from […]
Published in the Waukegan DailySun, Waukegan, Illinois on Monday, December 23, 2024
Wildcat Eats Wildcat. Savage brutes shipped from California in the same cage have a falling out by the way-A case of assimilation. A 50-pound Wildcat, with a split eye lid, and fresh battle scars about its body, was the survivor of a catfight. The Wildcats were forwarded by W. D. Gambel, of Wells, Fargo & […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, June 28, 1873
Monkey Sagacity. It was a wild and dreary part of the country, in the plains of India, while journeying, that one day a friend and myself sat down under the shade of a banana tree; and were enjoying a meal of various edibles, when we were disturbed by the arrival and the noise of a […]
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Thursday, November 13, 1902
The African cobra is regarded somewhat reverently by the natives of that country, who once a year kill a cobra de Capello and hang its skin to the branch of a tree, tail downward. Then all the children born during the last year are brought out and made to touch the skin. This the parents […]
, Waukegan Daily Sun on Monday, December 23, 2024
Bovine Morals Corrupted. Catskill Cows Taught by Deer to Leap Fences. Ever since the deer were released from the State park in the Catskill mountains several years ago they have more or less become a nuisance. The law prohibits the deer from being shot for five years, and game protectors are kept busy at a […]
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, January 4, 1879
A large ape, which was chained to a tree in the grounds of one of the Esterhazy family, lately descended on the countess while she was driving, and tore her dress and arm. Her husband arrived in time to shoot the beast before serious harm was done.
Published in the Dixon Telegraph and Lee County Herald, Dixon, Illinois on Wednesday, October 22, 1851
Remarkable Dog Story. We find the following in the N. York Spirit of the Times. It is rather tough; Some years since, in the town of New Boston, New Hampshire, there was a family a, woman who was insane, a confirmed maniac. A partition was made by upright slabs secured in the floor of the […]
Published in the Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, April 5, 1850
Wild Pigeons.-Chronicle says that, during the stay of the wild pigeons in that neighborhood, two persons caught 650 dozen of the birds. They were taken in a net.
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, July 22, 1865
Extraordinary Effects of Whiskey upon a Dog. An unfortunate dog, while prowling around the market square lately, took it in his noddle to put out of sight one of those beef boluses, a few of which were carefully thrown around for the especial benefit of the canine fraternity-those without muzzles. The incautious individual had only […]