Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, June 16, 1854
Mr. Joseph Adams, of Eden, Lamoille, County, Vermont, [a town which he helped settle when a youth, and he is now over seventy years old,] writes us that “I have kept bees nearly forty years, and I have stood and watched the King-bird in a cold misty day, and have seen them sit on my […]
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, June 9, 1854
About nine weeks since, Mr. John T. Cookson, foreman in the foundry of Mr. Semple was attacked and bitten in several places by a dog, as he was returning to his home about nine o’clock in the evening. He felt no serious effects from these bites till last Sunday, night when he was unable to […]
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, February 4, 1854
A train of forty-two cars arrived at Cincinnati from Columbus, over the Columbus, and Xenia and Little Miami railways, on the 5th inst. having on board 3,764 hogs, weighing in all about one million two-hundred thousand pounds.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Friday, February 24, 1854
A pigeon roost, ten miles long by five broad, in Franklin county, Indiana, it is said, is now swarming with pigeons. The roar of their wings on arriving and departing from the roost is tremendous, and the flocks during the flight darken the heavens. The ground is covered to the depth of several inches with […]
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield, Illinois on Wednesday, March 29, 1854
A Jamaica paper says that rats on board the West India packets are sadly destructive of Foreign mails. Some time since a will in England was required in Demerara. After immense trouble and expense the will was obtained and sent out. When the mail arrived at Demerara, however, the rats had eaten the will and […]
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Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Saturday, July 2, 1853
The editor of the Home Journal who was among those invited to Niagara Falls on the late excursion of the Legislature of New York, among other incidents notices is the following: We had the luck to see a horse go over the Falls on Sunday afternoon. We say luck, because though we are sorry the […]
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Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, August 2, 1853
A few days since a gander was “on duty” near the canal basin, Albany, in keeping guard over a flock of goslings, which led to a encounter between his gandership and a rooster. The contest, however, was of short duration, for the gander seized the rooster by the neck and straightway flew into the canal, […]
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Tuesday, August 9, 1853
At an exhibition of animals in Liverpool, the keeper called the lioness to kiss him. She did so, but took off his nose in her teeth.
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Friday, October 7, 1853
This snake finds a superior foe in the deer and black snake. Whenever a buck discovers a rattlesnake in a situation which invites an attack, he loses no time in preparing for battle. He makes up within 10 or 12 feet of the snake, then leaps forward and aims to sever the body with his […]
Friday, December 27, 2013
Published in the Illinois Daily Journal, Springfield,Illinois on Thursday, October 13, 1853
We stopped one very sultry day about noon to rest our horses, and enjoy the cooling shade afforded by a clump of sycamore trees, with a refreshing drink from an adjoining spring. Several large hawks were flying about the spot, two of which we brought down. From their great size, immense claws, and large hooked […]
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